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Tony Montana's Empire

Tony Montana

Antonio "Tony" Montana

"Say hello to my little friend!"

Played By: Al Pacino

Dubbed By: Sylvain Joubert (European French)

"What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, 'That's the bad guy.' So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!"

A former Cuban soldier and prisoner who was exiled to Miami by Fidel Castro and eventually becomes ingrained into the criminal underworld. He rises his way to the top, but then his life eventually starts to crumble apart around him.

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• Adaptational Heroism: He has far more moral standards and more likable characteristics than his original counterpart Tony Camonte. For one thing, it's pretty hard to imagine Camonte even having any second thoughts about something like killing children and putting any sense of morality before self-interest in the same that way Montana does. Even their last stands are quite a bit different from each other. In the original film, Camonte fights and goes down fighting against the police, whereas Montana fights off but ultimately loses to a rival druglord's death squad. Furthermore, Montana's incestuous feelings toward his sister are far more ambiguous here, while in the original film, Camonte leaves little to nothing the viewer's imaginations.
• Adaptational Name Change: His last name is changed to from Camonte to "Montana".
• Adaptational Nice Guy: His philosophy against harming children is just one of many things that separates him from Paul Muni's Tony Camonte, who lacks any sort of noble virtues whatsoever.
• Addiction-Powered: In his ever iconic last stand, he hypes himself up with some serious cocaine, which likely contributes to his endurance compared to the small army of nameless mooks he mows down with little to no effort.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Poor Tony. Villainous downfalls don't really get much more tragic than Tony Montana's. He gets shot in the back after gaining and then losing everything and all the while descending to madness while trying everything that he to stay in power. Shortly before that, he picks up the phone on his office desk for a moment, and then sets it back down. There's nobody left for him to call for help: His best friend Manny and dearly beloved sister Gina are both dead (The former by his own hand, and the latter wanted to kill him moments before as revenge), his former friend Frank has been dead for quite some time (again, because Tony had previously had him killed), Sosa is now his enemy who wants to have him killed for his prior failure to kill the journalist, his mother Georgina has verbally disowned him, and his wife Elvira has left him for good. At the end, Tony has absolutely nobody left to call for help, and for that matter, nothing left to live for.
• Ambition Is Evil: One of his primary motivations, for the majority of the movie, and are what ultimately lead to his downfall. Although Downplayed earlier on in the film, since at that point, while he is certainly ambitious, he still wants to help improve the lives of his family and and his friends for the better. It's only "after" he fulfills said ambitions, and becomes a powerful drug kingpin, that this trope is in full effect. This is when Tony's life slowly but sure begins to crumble around him and loses sight of this original goal. It's bad that it gets to the point where he either alienates, kills, or makes enemies with all of his potential allies, friends, or relatives, and it eventually leads to his own downfall at the hands of one of said former allies.
• Animal Motifs: Pacino watched the original film and he noted that in it, Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) came off as "a big ape" type, and so he tried to emulate that to the best that he possibly could in his performance as Tony Montana in the remake. Alejandro Sosa lampshades this even when he calls him a "fucking little monkey".
• Anti-Hero: He starts out as this at the beginning of the film, coming over to America with his friends in order to start a new life for the better, while also trying his absolute best to help provide for his estranged family in anyway that possibly he can. But as the movie goes on, he becomes progressively worse to the point where he becomes a full fledged Villain Protagonist who kills in best friend in an impulsive fit of rage, attempts to kill an innocent journalist to avoid having to go to prison for three to five years, (though in all fairness, he does call off the attempted hit when he sees that the journalist has a wife and two children with him) and becomes overly protective of his sister Gina to the point that eventually results in her death at the hands of a rival cartel. And Tony himself dies at the end after losing everything. But hey, he goes out like a true badass after taking plenty of bad guys with him, so there's that at least.
• At Least I Admit It: Basically the whole point of his entire "say goodnight to the bad guy" speech essentially boils down to Tony telling everyone who is out there giving him funny looks at the restaurant that at the very least he acknowledges his own faults and slip-ups instead of pinning blames on others like they all do.
• Ax-Crazy: He is essentially the embodiment of this trope, particularly within the second half of the movie. In general, he's more than ready to use the various lethal weapons at his disposal, mostly guns of course, but he can use knives and other weapons as well when needed.
• Bad Boss: Downplayed. Admittedly, he is one of the less-egregious examples of this trope as most of the time, he is a fairly reasonable one. However, his Hair-Trigger Temper often gets in the way of things. He kills his best friend and dragon Manny Ribera without so much as a second thought upon seeing him in a mansion while wearing bathrobes with his sister Gina, but only just finding out afterward that the two of them had just been married. Later on, the combination of physical pain from being shot by Gina, emotional shock at seeing her gunned down by a henchmen, and then combine with all of the cocaine that he's snorted leaves him virtually unable to react as his trusted man Chi-Chi is killed by more henchmen all the while begging him to open the office door so that he can survive the shootout.
• Berserk Button: He absolutely does not like it whenever other guys put the moves on his little sister Gina. Played in a tragic way after he finds Manny with Gina and and then impulsively kills him over it. He also reacts relatively violently when he learns that Sosa's henchman Alberto the Shadow expects him to be okay with callously killing innocent women and children.
• Big Bad: After he arranges for Frank Lopez's murder and then proceeds to and take over everyone and everything that was once Frank's, he's arguably now the biggest villain of his own story. But the real villain is Sosa, who is ultimately much worse than he is. Though by the end of the movie, he ultimately turns out to be little more than a Big Bad Wannabe with delusions of grandeur, who makes a bunch of fatal mistakes which ultimately result in his own tragic death.
• Big Brother Bully: Over the course of the film, he becomes extremely controlling and possessive of Gina, starting to yell at her harshly. When he finds out that his best friend Manny is in love with her, he is lost in a quiet rage and kills him without so much as any second thoughts, and then has his henchmen bring the now devastated wreck Gina over to his mansion.
• Blood Knight: Many shootouts and fights Tony gets into he enjoys practically every minute of it. Special mention goes to Freedomtown at the start of the movie.
  Tony: "I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice."
• But Not Too Foreign: He claimed that his father was an American during the opening interrogation scene.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Look no further than his "So say goodnight to the bad guy!" Speech. Although arguably Downplayed to some extent. As he isn't necessarily going around gloating about being evil and committing his crimes left and right, nor does he commit crimes For the Evulz. Rather, he simply acknowledges his flaws and mistakes, all the while accepting that he is ultimately not that fantastic of a person, while simultaneously denouncing the people in the restaurant as hypocrites who would all rather point their fingers at guys like Tony as if he is the bad guy rather than accepting their own mishaps in the way that he does.
• Cigar Chomper: Once he can afford them of course, he basically chomps on them like they were candy bars.
• The Corrupter: To his sister Gina, who begins acting out and rebelling against her mother once Tony reenters into her life. Though to be fair, it is unintentional on Tony's part, and he does genuinely try his absolute best to be the exact opposite, he just does a poor job of it.
  Georgina: "Why do you have to hurt everything you touch? Why do you have to destroy everything that comes your way?"
• Death by Irony: He falls from a relatively high ground over people around him into the swimming pool, next to a statue carrying a globe with his "The World Is Yours" motto.
• Death Seeker: Arguably, he becomes this of sorts in the end of the movie. He has no one left and seemingly no reason to keep living, and he probably knows that the film's climax will be his last stand (unless he escapes, but he makes no attempt to try, opting instead to mow down dozens of Sosa's thugs). Easily the biggest hint of this is that, just before grabbing the M16, he tells the body of his recently-dead sister "I'll see you soon, okay?" And then proceeds to take as any of Sosa's goons with him as he can before he takes a lethal bullet.
• Defiant to the End: And of the most iconic, and unforgettable examples in all of cinema at that; At the very end of the film, Tony is on the verge of nearing the end of his legendary Last Stand; his rifle is gone and Sosa's men are now unloading their weapons into him. Yet Tony refuses to go down, and instead just keeps on railing away at his numerous attackers, right up until The Skull sneaks up behind by climbing through the back of his mansion office window, and then proceeds to shoot him in the back with his shotgun.
  Tony: "Go ahead! I take your fucking bullets! You think you kill me with bullets? I take your fucking bullets! Go ahead!"
• Despair Event Horizon: When he sees Manny and Gina living in a mansion together, he instantly kills Manny in a fit of anger, without any hesitation or so much as a second thought. However, he subliminally regrets acting on impulse like that, and then he truly cements it when one of Sosa's henchmen kills Gina, thus culminating in an Unstoppable Rage which sees him annihilate a dozen or so of Sosa's troops, before he himself gets killed by The Skull.
• Dies Differently In The Adaptation: In the novel, Tony dies from a combination of the army of men ripping his body apart with bullets, and also an explosion caused by one of the bullets hitting the grenade inside the launcher of his rifle.
• The Don: Ultimately Deconstructed. Tony may very well be a powerful gangster, which is of course he always wanted, but at the end of the day, he really is just a smug, manchild who is really all just too stuck in his own fantasy world to see the truth. Once he becomes a powerful crime lord, he is driven way too much by his own pride and greed contributing to his negative attitude, and further distances himself from the people close to him. He still has his personal moral codes of honor however, but even that is sadly proven to only get him ever so far in a cutthroat world of drug dealers.
• Doomed Moral Victor: Averted. He does not kill the Bolivian anti-drug activist because children and a woman were put in danger by the attempted hit. Later on, this is played straight however, with the circumstances eventually leading to Tony's death.
• Drunk with Power: By the second half of the movie, he's let his drug empire get into his head, even becoming a royal pain to those he's supposed to like and throwing his weight around where he shouldn't be.
• Dying Alone: A more violent variation, but by the end of the film, he has nothing left except to kill as many of Sosa's goons as possible before he himself gets killed.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: One of the most iconic and memorable examples of this in cinema; he goes out battling a small army of hitmen sent to kill him, all the while shouting obscenities, and taking a good chunk of them with him before the Skull uses stealth to get and around him and then ultimately shoots him from behind.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He sincerely tries the absolute best that he can do to provide for his working-class mother Georgina, but the relationship is strained due to her being aware of Tony's criminal activities. She refuses any money and demands he leave, which he does soon afterwards. He eventually gets verbally disowned by his mother, but this seemingly doesn't stop Tony from still genuinely caring about her (even if he is not very good at it).
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Deconstructed. He sincerely tries the absolute best that he can do to take care of those that he loves even as he becomes an increasingly bigger and more violent criminal and acting increasingly more and more like a general jerk. His affection for Gina in particular is very strong, although laced with incestuous implications. Subverted later in the film, as he eventually becomes a malignant presence in their lives when he drives Elvira away, kills Manny because he proposed to Gina, and locks Gina up in his own mansion out of a fanatical obsession with "protecting" her. Played straight again later on though, as he clearly regrets killing Manny, and is visibly saddened when Gina is killed by one of Sosa's thugs, and it may have even contributed to Tony's death
• Even Evil Has Standards: Tony Montana absolutely won't kill any children. He also has a hands-off policy on harming women.
• Exact Words: He invokes this upon Frank Lopez during the middle of the film. After surviving Frank's attempt to have Tony killed inside of the Babylon Club, Tony confronts Frank in his office, while the latter cowardly begs Tony not to kill him, and promises to give Tony everything if he doesn't. And indeed, Tony follows up on Frank's offer, he takes all of Frank's belongings and his position, and then also takes Elvira as his girlfriend, and then also takes some of Frank's henchmen (namely Ernie) to serve under his wing, and then he technically honors his word, he doesn't kill Frank. [[spoiler:Manny does! At Tony's behest, as a proxy for him, and Frank still dies, pathetically at that.
• Fatal Flaw: Actually, there are definitely quite a few things that had Tony done differently, he might have gotten an easier time in the end and maybe even survived.
  • His Hair-Trigger Temper would certainly qualify. It causes him to make very unwise decisions without considering the long-term consequences, like betraying Frank by mooching Elvira from him, then killing him after he finds out, killing Sosa's hitman Alberto and later disrespecting the very angry Sosa when he calls about the botched hit instead of taking the time to explain what happened (granted, who knows how Sosa would reacted, but Tony could have at least planned out his next course of action should the former attempt to retaliate regardless), spurring the siege of the compound. It also leads him to kill his best friend Manny on impulse without a second thought, and then hauls his sister away, instead of making preparations to combat and/or escape from Sosa's clutches.
  • Also his Greed. The whole chain of events that ultimately leads to his downfall starts out when he breaks off with his banker because he doesn't want to have to pay higher rates for having his money laundered. Considering the large amounts of money he brings in, he should be thanking the gods that it is even a possibility.
  • His obsessive, overzealous protectiveness of his sister, combined with his aforementioned brashness, leads him to be disowned by his mother, kill his best friend Manny, which devastates Gina enough to the point where she attempts to murder him, then she gets killed by Sosa's hitmen, which may have contributed to Tony's death as well.
  • How can one possibly forget about his unstable addiction to cocaine. This factor certainly didn't make the above mentioned problems any better (save for in the climax where it may have dulled his pain sensors and helped him fight off dozens of Sosa's foot soldiers, but that was already after he had already lost everything by that point, not in spite of).
  • Early on, Frank tells Tony "Never get high on your own supply". Naturally, this has the literal reading of "Don't throw your product up your nose when you should be selling it", and Tony violates that rule, getting ever more unstable. However, it can also be read as "Don't get too full of yourself". Tony's ego drives him further and further, thinking he is incapable of bad decisions, thinking he's untouchable.
• Friend to All Children: He certainly has shades of this despite how it's been said that his drug-dealing operation could have eventually impacted children's lives if he had stayed in control. Tony is fairly pleasant to the two kids he that talks to while Manny tries to pick up a chick at the pool. He says that he'd really like to have kids with Elvira (which never happens, which is partly what starts the very public fight that finally drives Elvira away), and of course, he will not kill children.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: He's a former Cuban Army soldier who gradually becomes a fearsome Miami cocaine kingpin, and quickly becomes known for being quite fearless and ruthless towards his rivals. His military training could easily be used to explain his deadly skills with firearms, such as an assault rifle and grenade launcher that he uses to kill dozens of enemy gangsters with in the final battle.
• Getting High on Their Own Supply: Does this in the second half of the movie despite being warned not to otherwise By Frank and Elvira. This contributes to his growing list of problems that make his life increasingly more difficult, and it causes him to be less weary of real problems until it's already too late by that point. The only good it did him was in the climax where it helped him mow down several of Sosa's mooks in his mansion, but it still didn't save his life outright and that was when he resolves to kill as many of them as possible because that was all that he had left to do, and these problems might not have been as severe to begin with if Tony hadn't become a cocaine addict.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a huge scar on one side of his face; at the very beginning of the film, that he says he got it in an accident when he was just a child.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He is aggressive and is almost always on the brink of a cocaine-fueled rage. Nearly everything sets him off, especially people who go near his sister. Not even his best friend Manny is safe from this, as Tony kills him on the spot as soon as he sees them together.
• The Hero Dies: Our Nominal Hero gets killed by his now enemies at the end of the film.
• Honor Before Reason: In the last third of the film, he is contacted by Sosa to kill a journalist who is trying to bring down the latter's cocaine empire and put him in prison, and he initially agrees to carry out the hit. But that changes when he sees that said journalist has brought his family with him, so he attempts to call off the hit, but Sosa's henchmen Alberto persists on going ahead with it anyways, and so Tony kills him, even though doing this puts him in Sosa's crosshairs.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Loses everything by the end, including his life. Even before Sosa's death squad attacks his mansion, it's implied his criminal empire is not long for this world as he's become completely unhinged from having killed his best friend Manny in a terrible rage and he's already killed or driven away everyone else who could have helped him. A couple of his men are shown watching him standing on the balcony, clearly unnerved and questioning his ability to function among themselves.
• Hypocrite:
  • He rages at his sister Gina for partying at the same nightclub he does, and at Elvira for abusing drugs despite snorting mountains of cocaine himself, and previously not doing anything to stop her.
  • He cuts ties with Jerry and his bank because he doesn't want to pay extra, and yet when Tony gets busted in a sting operation, not only does he pay a five million dollar bail he offers to double his lawyer's initial fees because he's that desperate to avoid any jailtime (which his lawyer bluntly informs him is impossible).
• Iconic Outfit: There's the red Hawaiian-style shirt he wears during the infamous chainsaw scene, the disco-styled, wide collared suits he wears when he starts making lots of money, and perhaps most famously, the dark blue pinstriped suit that he wears when he goes after Sosa's hitmen who have been sent to his mansion in order to kill him.
• Immigrant Patriotism: Tony's strong disdain with Castro's communist Cuba make him appreciate the much more capitalistic America very strongly... At least, that is until he rises to the top of Miami drug trade and yet still feels unfulfilled and resentful under said capitalism.
• Implacable Man: His bravery and loyalty is what makes him such a vital asset to his boss or his partner at the moment. Although his cocaine addiction has made him much more of a liability.
• Incest Subtext: Tony's violent protectiveness regarding his sister Gina has more than a few shades of this, which is a callback to the original film that this one is a remake of.
• It's All About Me: Starts to have this sort attitude after he finished up with his criminal empire.
• Jerkass: He, believe it or not, is not quite as ruthless as his original counterpart, but despite having some noble tendencies here and there, one can still easily see him at his absolute worst as one of these. His drug-dealing game, along with some other objectionable things he does, has led to some viewers having a big problem with him. He has shown jealousy and recklessness, is harsh with his sister when she starts making love to a guy she met at a club, mouths off at bankers and such who he feels would short-change him, was gearing up to execute a man he did not know as he became more drunk with power until childrens' lives were on the line, and his anger has been a danger towards others, including himself, and ultimately kills his best friend in a blind fit of rage. He appears to fight with just about everyone sooner or later except his mother (who herself is very much sickened by his criminal habits), but still...
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He still won't kill kids even when his own life was starting to fall apart around him, and the very first thing he does when he makes it out on top is buy Gina her own beauty parlor for her to work in, in hopes that she doesn't end up like him. In addition, when things were really starting to go downhill, he did not verbally abuse his minion, Ernie, despite being furious. All in all, while he does plenty of objectionable, things, he still has people he cares and his own code of honor which he abides by.
• Kick the Dog: At Times. Although some instances here and there are debatable to say the least.
  • Stealing Frank's girlfriend Elvira right out from under his nose, and then later on starting her addiction to cocaine. Later blowing up at her for this.
  • He killed his best friend Manny without a second thought simply because he thought he made it clear to him to stay away from his sister Gina. Although granted, he did feel awful about it when he finally came to his senses.
  • Leaving Chi-Chi to die due to being a mix of likely incoherence over Gina's death and not rushing fast enough to help while Chi-Chi begs desperately Tony to open the door.
• Klingon Promotion: Has his boss Frank Lopez killed, and from then on he proceeds to take over control of not only his businesses and position, but also his woman.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Oh boy. Where do we begin? Touch his sister, and you may very well just die at the hands of his bullet. Isn't that right, Manny?
• Large Ham: Every line that comes out of his mouth is scenery-eating and hammy. Somewhat justified later on when he's high as a kite on a blow of cocaine.
  Tony: "Say hello to my little friend!"
• Lonely at the Top: In spades. He even lampshades this when he's sitting miserably in a restaurant with his wife and the closest he had to a proper friend who can barely stand him any more at this point.
• Made of Iron: Deconstructed. The only reason Tony lasted so long against Sosa's hit crew was because he snorted so much cocaine it dulled the pain in his body and the fact he was too angry to die. Tony still could feel some pain as he recoiled and winced when he got shot, and he sure as hell felt the point-blank range shotgun blast to his back.
• Meaningful Name: Montana is the Spanish word for Mountain and Mountain usually stands for peak, prominence and summit, and Tony definitely wants to reach the summit, is able to climb to the position of the number one drug boss in Miami, and potentially the whole United States for that matter, and he does rise to prominence as the King of Miami. However after he reaches the prominence is when his Mountain lists of issues and flaws eventually reaches its peak and contributes to his ultimate downfall.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After killing Manny in a fit of rage, he feels nothing but sorrow and regret about it.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Hoo boy, he absolutely does not like anyone getting around his sister. Not even his own best friend is safe from his overzealous protectiveness.
• The Napoleon: His height is confirmed to be around 5'6".
• Never Going Back to Prison: What motivates him into making a new deal with Sosa, as Tony can't stomach jail anymore, not even a short three year stint.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: While this is shown to be true in the movie, it's made especially clear in the video game, where you simply can't shoot civilians, because that's not in-character for Tony.
  • Although Tony does make an exception later on when he attempts to kill an innocent journalist to avoid having to go to prison, but even then, he immediately backs out once he sees that the journalist brought his wife and children with him
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: It's widely believed he was at least partly inspired by a real life Cuban-American Miami drug lord named Mario Tabraue.
• Noble Demon: While he is definitely a murderous drug kingpin with some seriously self-destructive tendencies, he has still at least has standards compared to most of the other villainous people of the film. The noble aspects of him start to slowly diminish over the course of the story, as he becomes a drug addict and his Hair-Trigger Temper worsens, though it never goes away completely and he still keeps his Never Hurt an Innocent attitude (until he agrees to kill an innocent journalist for Sosa, but even then, he immediately backs out once he sees that the journalist brought his wife and children with him).
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He's one of the biggest kingpins in Miami, but compared to the likes of Sosa, who fraternizes with Washington politicians and has the IRS in his pocket, he's pretty small fry. In fact, while the tax evasion charge is a grave problem that Tony can't solve no matter how much money he throws at it, Sosa can casually sweep it away in exchange for a small favor. The scene where Tony is introduced to Sosa's powerful friends highlights how out of depth he is, with Tony uncharacteristically meek and quiet compared to his usual bombastic personality.
• One-Man Army: And a legendary example at that; Tony uses an assault rifle and grenade launcher to kill about a few dozen or so henchmen in the climax. However, he didn't avoid getting fatally shot in the back.
  • However, this is played completely straight in the video game adaptation.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Admittedly, most of his killed victims weren't very good people. The only one who didn't deserve to die was his dear friend Manny Ribera, who's only crime was being truly in love with Tony's sister, Gina which Tony would not allow any off. Though in all fairness, Tony did genuinely regret doing instantly afterwards. The likes of these guys on the other hand, did though and as a result are much more clear-cut examples of this trope:
  • Emilio Rebenga, a military man who tortured countless people under Castro's regime, and also killed Frank Lopez's brother, which is how Tony, Manny, Omar, and Lopez are able to meet each other in the first place. He is also the first person Tony kills in the movie.
  Tony: You tell Lopez I kill Rebenga for free. For a green card? I carve him up real good.
  • Hector the Toad, who carved up Tony's friend Angel to death with a chainsaw both to force Tony to pay him money and for his own sadistic cheer all the while forcing Tony to witness it, and then attempting to do the same thing to Tony, no tears are shed when tony puts a bullet in his head and kills him. Arguably even more of a Starter Villain than Emilio Rebenga, since he actually posed something of an actual threat to Tony, unlike Rebenga who had no advantages, and instead he opted to flee for his own life.
  • While Tony didn't kill Omar Suarez, he still disliked the guy quite a bit, especially since made the arrangements for Tony and Manny to kill Emilio Rebenga with the intention of Lopez and his allies to use as leverage against Tony, and he may have also purposefully set up the fateful meeting with Hector the Toad hoping that they would both get killed his chainsaw (and if Sosa is to be believed, was also a police informant who put other gangsters in prison), and thus, he had no objections to Sosa's henchmen killing him.
  • Frank Lopez (who also dies pathetically) after he previously orchestrated Tony's murder of Emilio Rebenga, and then used as leverage to extort Tony with, sent two hitmen to kill Tony (one of them even killed a stage performing clown just to get closer to him), who were both killed by Tony instead, and then, after getting what he wants from Lopez and promising not to kill him, he doesn't, Manny does instead, with Tony using him as a proxy. Although Downplayed with Lopez since, while he may have been a drug kingpin who attempted to kill Tony, he is admittedly one of the more likeable characters in the film, and he did it because Tony was trying to steal Elvira from him.
  • Mel Berstein plays this straighter than Lopez, since Lopez was at least somewhat likeable. A textbook Smug Snake who thought he could get Tony underneath his crushing thumb, and even tried to extort him with his knowledge of Emilio Rebenga's murder. Long story short, Tony proved him wrong in a spectacular fashion.
  • Sosa's nutcase henchmen Alberto the Shadow, who over zealously attempted to blow up a journalists car even while his wife and children were inside. While this action may have Gotten Tony marked for termination by Sosa, it's still next to impossible to feel sorry for Alberto.
  • Finally, Sosa's numerous henchmen who attempt to kill Tony in the climax, they kill his bodyguards, and especially the specific one who kills Tony's dearly beloved sister Gina.
  • Furthermore, while Sosa and The Skull ultimately kill Tony and his remaining allies and loved ones, and on the surface, seem to get away clean with their crimes, it is heavily implied that they might still go to prison for them, since Tony failed to kill said journalist, thus allowing him to reveal Sosa to the world.
  • This also goes for those that he targets in the video game alternate universe sequel.
• Pet the Dog: He gives Ernie a job after blowing away Frank Lopez and Mel Bernstein right in front of him. Also, killing Alberto the Shadow, rather than simply letting him blow up a car with an innocent woman and her two children inside of it.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He doesn't seem to like working alongside Colombians. He also derisively refers to Italian mobster guys as "Guineas" (which is also funny considering Pacino himself is an iconic Italian-American). He also uses the slur "maricon" (faggot).
• Pop-Cultured Badass: Early on in the film, he mentions that he grew up watching old school Hollywood tough guys like James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart and the likes.
• Properly Paranoid: Much of Tony's aggressive accusations are passed off as him merely being Paranoid, but there have been times where he's actually on the right. For example when Mel shakes him down for protection money, using his killing of previous killing of Emilio Rebenga as leverage against him. Tony immediately figures out that Frank Lopez is setting him up for extortion, as he is the only one outside of Freedomtown to possibly know about that hit.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: At the start of the film, he is fleeing Cuba to the United States with the intention of starting a new life for himself and his friends, while also looking to provide for his estranged family, and while he does have criminal aspirations, he doesn't let said aspirations cause him to lose sight of his principles nor does it negate his goals being his desire to help his family and friends. But as the film progresses, this gradually becomes less and less the case and in the process he blows away, kills, or makes enemies with just about everyone he could have potentially once called a friend. He loses everything and has no one left, only opting to take many of Sosa's death squad as he can before he gets killed by them in retaliation for his previous double-crossing of their boss.
• Rasputinian Death: He takes an improbable number of bullets right to the torso in the final shootout with Sosa's death squad in the climax, and isn't even fazed by it, but this might just be explained by the fact that he had his face buried in a mountain of coke just moments before. It ultimately takes a shotgun blast to the back at close range from behind and a fall off of a balcony to finally kill him once and for all.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Burning hot Red to Manny Ribera and Alejandro Sosa's ice cold Blue. Manny is generally more level-headed and easy going than the brash, Hot-Blooded and impulsive Tony, who's always looking for a fight. And Sosa is coldly pragmatic and ruthless.
  Tony: There were fucking children in the car!
  Sosa: When you move 400 kilos a month, it is imperative that you do kill children.
• Redemption Earns Life: In the game, he survives the climactic shootout in the film with plenty of bitter lessons learned (such as giving up drugs), and he uses them as his motivation to finally take down Sosa once and for all.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: At the film's climax, after Gina's death, leading to the film's most iconic moment, where he guns down hordes of Sosa's goons, before he himself is killed.
  • In the game where he survives said shootout, he's on one for the rest of the story against Sosa.
• Sanity Slippage: He gets even crazier and more increasingly unhinged after his coke addiction settles in.
• Seven Deadly Sins: He's ravaged by all of them, save for maybe Sloth. Among these, easily his most fatal flaws are his Wrath and his Pride.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: When his life starts going down the drain, he starts wearing a more professional looking dark blue suit with a matching waistcoat and dark red tie, in contrast to the loudly colored, wide collared, tie-less suits from before; when shit's hit the fan, he stops wearing the tie, his suit gets covered in blood and coke, and he wears it as he makes his last-stand against Sosa's hit squad sent to kill him.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Lampshaded by Elvira.
  Elvira: "Can't you stop saying fuck all the time?!"
• Slouch of Villainy: Tony has atrocious body posture whenever he's sitting in his office chair.
• The Smart Guy: Before he gets addicted to coke and flies off the ego train, Tony is smart enough to try and game the system, playing the role of a poor victim of the Cuban government before going balls to the wall in the drug trade. He made it a point, even as he and Manny are bilingual fresh off the boat immigrants, to tell Manny to tell La Migra that they were in a "sanitarium" (a long-term, higher cost health resort for things like tuburculosis) rather than prison. Manny fucks it up and says they were in "sanitation" instead, but Tony knows his audience then and quickly susses out that Frank and Mel are low level snakes rather than big time players. Of course, that's only in the first act.
• Smug Snake: By the second half of the film, he is firmly in this territory. He stands up to brag about how he's the apparent "bad guy" of the town while he's really losing control of both himself and his empire due to his Cocaine addiction and self-destructive anger issues.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He survives the shootout at the mansion in Scarface: The World Is Yours.
• The Starscream: To Frank Lopez in the middle of the film, and later on, to Sosa.
• Stimulant Speedtalk: Begins to exhibit this once he starts Getting High on Their Own Supply, though he substitutes high-speed conversation for protracted rambling and screamed diatribes. In particular, after taking a bump just prior to the car-bombing mission from Sosa, Tony begins quietly ranting once he realizes that there are two children in the car until he loses composure and starts screaming at Alberto. Then he shoots Alberto in the head before he can trigger the bomb and continues shouting at the man's corpse.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: After taking out a score of Sosa's hitmen with his grenade launcher, Tony stops shooting and starts taunting them as though he's already won, allowing the remaining henchmen to get into cover and open fire on him all at once. He survives that barrage and keeps taunting them, seemingly convinced that he's immune to bullets. Cue the Skull walking up behind him... And then blasting him away with his shotgun
• This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Tony insists on being hands-on in his approach to problems, to the point that he opts to cut out the middleman and deliver the coke to Frank in person. However, this backfires on him when he forces Manny off a deal with a money launderer in favour of dealing with the guy in person, causing a great deal of friction with his friend and lieutenant as a result... only to find too late that the money launderer was an undercover cop, triggering the conflict of the film's second half.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Tony starts out the film as a crook, but he is still at least somewhat level-headed, and is not as much of a danger to himself and to others around him. It's not until he gains power later on in the film that he allows himself to become a cocaine-addicted wreck. He constantly curses and begins to act like a cantankerous prick towards even some of his closest associates or possible friends over minor disagreements, and he even gets called out on it by almost everyone close to him. His impulsive behavior simply does not allow him to take the hint soon enough...
• Underestimating Badassery: After souring relations with Sosa, he tells his lieutenant to prepare for war, probably thinking that his motley crew of street thugs can handle the biggest drug lord in South America. Barely a moment after he says this, his mansion gets filled to the brim with Sosa's hitmen and most of his crew gets taken out with barely a fight.
• The Usurper: Takes Frank's life together with his criminal enterprise and luxury mansion. He also recruits Frank's trustier men (like Ernie), and then liquidates Frank's slimier collaborators (namely Mel Berstein), and then makes Frank's mistress his wife.
• Villainous Incest: Possibly. Tony can't have his sister and consequently doesn't want anyone else to have her either. This idea is lampshaded by her right before she's gunned down by Sosa's assassins. Though to be fair, this is ultimately just speculation, it also equally possible that he views Gina as his Morality Pet (a role which she clearly doesn't like) and is overprotective of her as a result.
• Villain Protagonist: He may be a Noble Demon, with people that he care about and a personal code of honor, but at the end of the day, this doesn't change the simple fact that he is still The Don of Miami, and a power-hungry drug lord who eventually becomes increasingly more violent and dangerous as the movie progresses, and all of the people that he may have once called his friends and/or loved ones are either done with him, are dead, want to kill him, or even some combination of those aforementioned three things.
• Villainous Breakdown: Very often due to his Hair-Trigger Temper, but the most prominent one would have to be in the finale. Particularly after one of Sosa's hitmen kills Gina, then Tony truly snaps and proceeds to kill as many of Sosa's small army that have been sent to his mansion to kill him as possible. All the while shouting out obscenities and barely reacting at all to getting shot. It's only when The Skull Sneaks behind him from the balcony window into his office, and then proceeds to blast him away with his shotgun and over a railing, does Tony finally stop
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He would only ever go after men who actively challenge him. Bar the one time he slaps Gina for sneaking into the men's bathroom at the Babylon Club to make out with a guy that she just met.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The indirect reason why Sosa puts a hit on him (the main direct reason of course being that he failed to kill the journalist). When ordered to activate a bomb on a reporter's car to stop him from testifying about Sosa's criminal activities, he refuses to do it because the reporter's wife and children are also in there and he even kills one of Sosa's hitmen for trying to activate the bomb anyway. The reporter lives to testify, as such, Sosa's pissed off, and then it all goes downhill from there.
• Yandere: In the latter part of the movie, he becomes more and more violently and questionably possessive over his sister, culminating in him killing Manny when he finds out that he's been pursuing a relationship with her.

Manny Ribera

Manolo "Manny Ray" Ribera

Played By: Steven Bauer

"Don't fucking go crazy on me, okay? Just remember, this time last year we were in a fucking cage."

Tony Montana's best friend who was exiled with him from Cuba to Miami together.

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• Affably Evil: He starts out the film as a cool, pleasant, pragmatic, and level-headed guy. And unlike Tony who actually does, Manny doesn't become more of an asshole as the film goes on.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Seeing Tony kill his dear friend so impulsively over the fact that he is seeing Gina is indeed a tragic sight for one to see, even more since they were so close to each other like they were brothers, and manny was always there for Tony even at his darkest hours, and also because this action is what ultimately destroys Gina's life. Even Tony himself feels instant regret for this action within just mere moments of committing it afterwards.
• Anti-Hero: Much like Tony, he may be a drug dealer, but still has people that he is close too, and is also a fairly nice guy otherwise. Unlike his friend Tony, Manny does not become more villainous as the film progresses, and instead he keeps his cool demeanor, and by the end of the film, he is a lot more level-headed and pragmatic than his friend and boss.
• The Casanova: He really does love flirting with women whenever he's got a chance to do it. But with that said, he's still at least got enough of a sense of boundaries not to be so abhorrently overbearing with his advances towards them.
• The Cavalry: Both he and Chi Chi come to the rescue for Tony from Hector and his goons clutches soon after realizing that the drug deal that they were supposed to be a part of at the motel had just went bad. Together, the two of them manage to kill Hector's girlfriend along with some of his other thugs, and they subsequently are able to save Tony's life in the process, thus allowing him to exact revenge against Hector for his previous needlessly brutal killing of poor Angel.
• Deadpan Snarker: He never raises his voice with Tony even whenever he's angry with him. Instead, his tone of voice just becomes drier. He also tosses a lot of blunt barbs at Tony after the latter lets his success get to far into his head.
• Deuteragonist: For the overall movie as a whole, he serves as this. He is the first major character introduced in the movie after Tony, and he is also the character who the audience spends the most with getting know that isn't Tony himself, and even serves as his second-in-command when the latter finally becomes a powerful drug kingpin in Miami. He is tragically murdered by Tony just minutes before the climax of the movie, which contributes to Tony's own demise as well.
• The Dragon: Fills out this role for Tony when the latter becomes a powerful drug kingpin. acting as the main person doing the handling of his security, as well as carrying out a lot of his other dirty work. Even personally shooting Frank Lopez in the face on Tony's behalf
• Fire-Forged Friends: Was friends with Tony while serving in the military, and then later on, while the two of them were imprisoned together in Cuba, and they stick together throughout the majority of the film. Though of course, their friendship tragically dwindles as the film progresses, and it eventually culminates in Tony ruthlessly murdering his dear friend Manny in cold blood after discovering him with his sister Gina. Although Tony did genuinely regret commiting this action just mere moments after the facts.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: He served along with Tony in the Cuban Army, and as such it stands to reason that he would know how to handle himself quite well. Be it with a gun, or in a straight up brawl, these skills indeed do come in handy at multiple points during the film.
• Funny Background Event: As the sound dulls while Tony is shown to be eyeing Elvira for the first time in Frank's apartment, Manny can be heard going on in a low voice to Frank, talking about how the girl sitting on the bed during the botched drug deal with Hector at the motel looked like a "witch".
• Handsome Lech: Whenever he is with women, the odds are highly likely that he will make some kind of moves towards them. But he is still decent enough not to go too far with them so as to be outright invasive.
• Has a Type: Manny is very much attracted to blondes. Subverted later on in the film however, for that he ultimately winds up falling in love with, and eventually even marrying Tony's sister, Gina, who is a brunette. [spoiler:Not that that did any good for them, not with Tony forbidding it.]]
• Idiot Ball: Deliberately ignoring Tony's about getting it on with his sister was never going to end well for Manny. And by this point, he was all too well aware that his best friend had a rage to him that could only go from zero to murder in the span of mere moments.
• Ladykiller in Love: For all his charms and advances towards women, by the end, he ends up falling in love with, and eventually marrying Gina in secret. It doesn't end very well for him though, sadly.
• The Millstone: He effectively becomes this in the second half of the film. Even given Tony's own erratic behavior and numerous mistakes, the events of his downfall are at least in no small part due to Manny's own screwups. Firstly, he puts Tony in contact with a money launderer who turns out to actually be an undercover cop (which admittedly wouldn't have been as much of a problem if Tony had let Manny handle the deal himself). Secondly, while Tony is off busy dealing with Sosa's business so that they can do away with his ongoing tax evasion charges, he puts Manny in charge of handling the operations, but instead of doing that like he was supposed to be doing, Manny decides instead that it would be a good idea to run off to elope with Gina. And as noted both up above and down below, his way of breaking the news of his relationship with Gina to Tony by answering the door while wearing little more than a bathrobe was an extremely unwise action, and it tragically leads to his own death.
• Number Two: The second-highest ranking man in Tony's criminal organization. Given that he was the man's best friend, and also served with him while they were in Cuba, it makes a great deal of sense that this would be the case.
• Only Sane Man: Is noticeably more pragmatic and level-headed than the brash and impulsive Tony. This becomes especially apparent in the latter half of the film, where Tony becomes even more power-hungry and more self-absorbed.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: In the beginning of the film, he assists Tony in killing Emilio Rebenga, a torturer from Castro's regime who even tortured and killed Frank Lopez's brother, thus allowing them to get their hands on a green card. He also kills Hector the Toad's henchwoman Marta along with some other of Hector's thugs at the motel, which also enables Tony to escape and kill Hector, thus also exacting vengeance for poor Angel, and in the middle of the movie, he personally shoots Frank Lopez in the face at Tony's behest after the former attempted to have Tony killed at the Babylon Club.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: At first, Manny serves as a brash, cock-sure Red Oni to a cynical and resourceful Tony's Blue, but in the second part of the movie, with Tony going crazy over money, their roles change, with Manny being a much more thoughtful and pragmatic blue in contrast to Tony's red overobsessive, self-destructive behavior.
• Tempting Fate: Tony makes it very very clear to Manny, in no uncertain terms at that, that he absolutely doesn't want Manny near his sister Gina after the latter drives him home early on in the film. However, as the later montage (and a later altercation at the Babylon Club) reveals, Gina gets the eyes for Manny, and despite his initial reservations about it, they ultimately agree to get married. This eventually kicks off the chain of the events that drive the last third of the film, where Tony kills Manny in a fit of rage and also inadvertently causes Gina's death in the process, which also contributes to his own defeat at the hands of Sosa's goons.
• Too Dumb to Live: Greeting Tony at the door while wearing nothing more than a bathrobe was a really bad way to tell Tony that he and Gina were seeing each other, especially given Tony's temper and his earlier warnings to stay away from her.
• Villainous Friendship: With Tony Montana himself. They served in the Cuban Army together, they were friends while both imprisoned, they came to the United States together via boat, they killed bad guys together, Manny even saved Tony's life when the latter was kidnapped by Hector the Toad, and also personally executed Frank Lopez when Tony said to, and subsesquently became Tony's second biggest player when the latter became a powerful drug kingpin. Although this becomes less true as the film progresses, where Tony becomes more villainous and more erratic, to the point that he alienates those closest to him, and even murders Manny in an impusilve fit of rage, after seeing him with his sister Gina. Though to be fair, he does immediately regret killing him after the facts, and this even contributes to Tony's downfall in the climax of the movie.
• Would Hit a Girl: During the chainsaw scene at the motel, he guns down Hector's female henchman Marta when he and Chi-chi come in to rescue Tony. Though to be fair, she was helping Hector kidnap Tony and Angel while the latter was carved up with a chain by Hector, and literally had a submachinegun in her hand so she could shoot Tony or his allies if they ticked them off, generally averted otherwise.

Elvira Hancock

Elvira Hancock

Played By: Michelle Pfeiffer

"Nothing exceeds like excess. You should know that, Tony."

Frank Lopez's girlfriend, and then later on, Tony Montana's wife.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: When Tony is trying to charm Elvira after she rebuffs his advances, he asks if she'll kiss him if he wears her hat. Despite trying to keep her Ice Queen demeanor, the sight of him in her hat breaks her into laughter.
• Broken Bird: Gives off a vibe of deeply regretting many of her choices in life, as she bitterly refutes Tony's claim that America is the "land of opportunity". And of course there's her devastating and on point "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Tony in her final scene in the restaurant.
• Dark Mistress: To Frank at first, and then later on to Tony. The former gets killed by Tony, and then she ultimately ends up leaving the latter before that can happen.
• Genre Savvy: She's the only one (other than maybe Sosa) who seems to have any understanding about how stories like Tony Montana's always end, and as such she gets out of the game while she still can, and is one of the few major characters who successfully manages to survive the events of the film.
• Gold Digger: Her motives for dating one multi-millionaire drug kingpin, and then after he is killed, marrying another.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: It's not like she would be together with Frank or marry Tony if they weren't rich and powerful like a drug lord, but she's not wrong when she points out what an asshole Tony has become as time as gone on.
• It's All About Me: She's almost entirely motivated by self-interest and material wealth, caring neither about Frank or Tony for who they are as people, and only about the status she gets from them.
• Ice Queen: She's aloof and sarcastic, making plenty of jabs at Tony and Lopez. Given that both men are powerful drug dealers, one can understand her disdain (hypocritical though it may be).
• Jerkass: More so than Gina and Tony would act, as she's aloof, snide and unpleasant, at least if rubbed the wrong way. Though she can be respectful if approached with enough respect, as seen when there are times when Tony and her start to get along.
• Jerkass Has a Point: She's not wrong when she points out Tony's asshole tendencies as they increasingly grow more consistent throughout the movie.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: Tony blames her persistent drug use for the fact that he hasn't had any kids with her. He's been berating her non-stop throughout the dinner, but mentioning this is what finally makes her lash out at Tony, [1] and ultimately leave him for good.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her red dress has a neckline that ends on her navel.
• Rich Bitch: She's the girlfriend of Frank Lopez, and then later on, the wife of Tony Montana, and treats everyone around her coldly.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In her last appearance, she decides that she's had enough and tells Tony, " I'm not going home with anybody! I'm going home alone. I'm leaving you. I'm leaving you. I don't need this shit anymore."

Chi Chi

Chi Chi

Played By: Ángel Salazar

"Chi Chi, get the llello!"

Another one of Tony's henchmen.

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• The Generic Guy: He isn't really that given much of a personality, but nonetheless still does show some occasional enthusiasm.
• In the Back: Gets shot in this fashion when he tries desperately to pound on the door to Tony's office, as Sosa's henchmen attack the compound.
• Last Stand: Is able to hold off a few of Sosa's hitmen when they launch their attack on the mansion, before he himself gets killed by them.
• Mauve Shirt: Manages to reach the end of the film before biting it in the climax.
• Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when he sees Sosa's hitmen pouring into the compound at the end of the film, which leads him to rouse Tony from his locked room before he's gunned down himself.
• Undying Loyalty: Sticks with Tony throughout the entirety of the film, until his death at the hands of Sosa's gunners.

Nick the Pig

Nick the Pig

Played By: Michael P. Moran

"We fucked up. He got away."

One of Tony's bodyguards.

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• Dying Moment of Awesome: When given the opportunity to escape from Sosa’s assassins, he instead opts to stay behind, and briefly attempts to hold some them off with just a pistol before being murdered by The Skull.
• Fat Idiot: Tony thinks he's this and treats him as such. But he's actually one of the more competent of Tony's henchmen.
• Last Stand: Attempts to hold off Sosa's assassins with his pistol before he himself is killed.
• Mauve Shirt: He manages to survive the majority of the movie before ultimately being killed by The Skull in the mansion shootout.
• Undying Loyalty: Even though it's said Tony nick-named him Nick the Pig for being overweight and thus seems to treat him like shit, he still sticks by his side nonetheless, especially towards the end when he has a window of opportunity to escape, but instead decides to stay and fight off the assassins.

Angel Fernandez

Angel Fernandez

Played By: Pepe Serna

"Tony, look out!"

Another one of Tony's friends.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Angel is perhaps the most pitiful character, given his limited role in the film. His needlessly vicious slaying via chainsaw compared to everyone else in the film only does more to add to the sympathy on his part.
• An Arm and a Leg: A literal example, as Hector viciously dismembers him with a chainsaw.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets brutally dismembered by Hector the Toad with a chainsaw.
• Keet: His single character trait seen in the film is his emotionality. He happily jumps up and down when he finally gets his hands on a green card. Averted in the hotel scene that leads to his death, Where he's the only one who is visibly worried even before the drug deal was revealed to be a setup, and his concerns were unfortunately proven to be correct, as he was viciously carved up with a chainsaw, and Tony only wasn't becuase Manny saved his life.
• Morality Pet: Tony makes it clear that he is very unhappy that Angel died (and so brutally during a botched drug deal no less) as he tells Frank. In the novelization, Tony was even willing to give Frank's drug money away so that the Columbians wouldn't chop up poor Angel, as good as that did for him.
• Red Shirt: He is brutally killed very early in the film, and is given much less characterization than most of Tony's crew.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed in a disturbingly brutal fashion early on in the movie by Hector the Toad in a drug deal gone wrong.

Ernie

Ernie

Played By: Arnaldo Santana

"Sure Tony. Thanks."

A thug who works for Frank Lopez, and then later on, Tony Montana.

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• Even Evil Has Standards: He's clearly horrified and even a little bit choked-up when he sees that Tony has just impulsively murdered Manny.
• Face Death with Dignity: While clearly sweating buckets and fidgeting with terror after Tony and Manny have killed Frank and then Mel, he never sobs or begs for his life like they both did (although the latter of whom recanted and angrily cussed at Tony before being killed), instead just keeping quiet and bracing himself for the inevitable. His courage in the face of death could have even been a possible reason for why Tony decided to spare his life and offer him a job instead killing him.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: After Frank and Mel are killed, Tony turns his attention to Ernie, who is sweating, awaiting his impending death. Tony instead offers him a job, which he accepts. He then takes a swig from a bottle of Jack Daniels.
• Mauve Shirt: Given more prominence and focus than other guards, due to his presence in the scene where Tony confronts Frank and his ensuing work as a bodyguard for the latter. This doesn’t save him from ultimately getting garrotted by Sosa's hitmen in the climax however.
• Killed Offscreen: You can see him being garroted by the assassins, but it cuts away just before he gets killed.
• You Will Be Spared: Tony spares him after Frank and Mel are killed by Tony and Manny respectively, letting him come work for him instead.

Jerry

Jerry the banker

Played By: Dennis Holahan

Dubbed By: Marc Cassot (European French)

"Stay with us, you're an old and well-liked customer. You're in good hands with us."

A Miami banker who is handling and washing Tony's money.

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• Affably Evil: Polite and businesslike, but he still is laundering money for a dangerous drug cartel.
• Honest Advisor: Whilst it's possible that he is simply trying to squeeze more commission out of Tony. He does highlight some very real concerns about the IRS, and about how Tony should be more discreet regarding how the latter handles his crooked money.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Updates Tony on the various government agencies cracking down on drug money and the need for further discretion.

Tony Montana's Family

Gina Montana

Gina Montana

Played By: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

"You got some nerve, Tony! You think you can come in here now and tell me what to do?! You can't tell me what to do! No more, I'm not a baby anymore! I'll do what I want to do, I'll see whoever I want to see, and if I want to fuck him, Tony, then I'll fuck him!"

Tony's younger sister, who looks up to him.

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• '80s Hair: Sports a massive hairdo even by the era's standards.
• Break the Cutie: Getting dragged into Tony's criminal life does quite a number on her personality.
• Broken Bird: After Tony kills Manny, she completely loses it and tries to kill him.
• Brother–Sister Incest: She spitefully tries to seduce Tony at the end and implies that Tony's incestuous love for her is the reason he tries to 'protect' her from other men. However, given that she opens fire at him as soon as he's distracted, the whole thing was likely a ploy for her real goal of killing Tony.
• Corrupt the Cutie: She and Tony's mother accuse Tony of "destroying" Gina.
• Fan Disservice: In the ending, she approaches Tony wearing nothing but a loose nightgown and underwear while shouting at him to fuck her and shooting at him. And this is shortly before being gunned down by one of Sosa's men.
• Morality Pet: Manny urges her to be one for Tony, but she cleary doesn't like the role.
• Naughty by Night: While Tony and Georgina see her as a purely innocent 19-year-old, it's clear even before Tony's re-arrival in their lives that Gina already had plenty of sexual experience and familiarity with cocaine.
• Sanity Slippage: Goes completely insane after Manny's death.

Georgina Montana

Georgina Montana

Played By: Míriam Colón

Tony and Gina's mother.

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• I Have No Son!: Disowns Tony for his criminal history and refuses to take any money from him.
• Outliving One's Offspring: She lives to the end of the movie, both of her children do not.

Frank Lopez's Empire

Frank Lopez

Frank Lopez

Played By: Robert Loggia

"Lesson number one: Don't underestimate... the OTHER GUY'S greed!"

A car dealer and drug kingpin in Miami, and Tony and Manny's initial employer.

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• Affably Evil: Even at the end of the film, it may be hard not to like him at the very least a little bit, as he is one of the comparatively nicer gangsters in the film, which is filled with so many cutthroats and vicious drug dealers.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He desperately pleads for Tony to spare his life. It almost works....until Tony makes Manny do the job as he wanted Frank to die in a sense of irony.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Wears a Chai necklace and uses the Yiddish word "chazzer" at one point for "a pig that don't fly straight" while refering to Nacho Contreras. Miami does have a sizeable population of Cuban Jews, but it's never explicitly stated in the film whether he is one of them or not.
• Asshole Victim: Considering that he attempted to have Tony killed, and died like a coward while he begged for his life, it's hard to feel too much sympathy for him when he is killed by Manny when Tony says so (the latter even called him a piece of shit when he ordered him to be killed). Although Downplayed when compared to some of the others that Tony has killed in the film, since Frank was at the very least one of the nicer drug dealers in the film, and he did have somewhat legitimate reasons to want to kill Tony, as Tony had begun committing to increasingly dangerous deals and started blatantly making the moves on his girlfriend.
• Authority in Name Only: For a major player in the drug scene, Frank's power is pretty lackluster. He has barely a handful of henchmen to his name, and half of those henchmen, including Tony and his crew, don't respect him at all. Once Tony finally comes after him, Frank has absolutely no one left to turn to, with both his cop friend Mel and his bodyguard Ernie leaving him to his fate.
• Benevolent Boss: Is a fairly reasonable boss for the most part, even if it is mostly just to maintain appearances.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Tony senses Frank is this right away, and when Frank confronts him about the deal he made with Sosa in Bolivia, and later, Elvira, his attempt at rage has no effect on Tony. When Tony survives his assassination attempt and confronts him, Frank quickly breaks down and pleads for his life after admitting that he sent the two hitmen to kill Tony. It doesn't save him from being killed by Manny.
  Frank: (while Tony moves in on Elvira) I'm giving you orders!
  Tony: Orders? You're giving me orders? Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
  Frank: Balls? (beat, then quietly turns to Elvira) Let's go.
• Big "NO!": Gives out several of these just seconds before Manny shoots him in the face.
• Cassandra Truth: Cautions Tony against doing business with Sosa, noting that the latter has an endless army of goons to throw at anyone who crosses him. Tony finds out too late this his former boss is completely right as an entire battalion worth of hitmen crashes his place.
• Dirty Coward: He always sends his guys out for him to carry out his dirty work rather than handle things himself, something that Tony even points out while confronting him in his office. Frank tries to lie at first, but then admits that he was the one who had set up the hit after finding out that Mel won't help him out of the mess. He offers to give Tony both money and Elvira, and ends by pleading and groveling at his feet. It's so pathetic that Tony has Manny kill him in his stead.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He is set up as their employer, and then seemingly the ultimate challenge for Tony and his allies when he attempts to have Tony killed half-way through the movie, but Tony survives the attempted hit and then he proceeds to finish off Frank while the former begs for his life in his office. Tony then takes over Frank's drug business.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • The very first task that he has Omar assign Tony and Manny is to kill Emilio Rebenga, the one who tortured and killed Frank's brother prior to the film while serving under Fidel Castro in communist Cuba. It can be presumed that he loved his brother, or at the very least, he cared about him enough to the point that he would want to avenge his death, and the audience is not given any reason to believe that this is simply out of pride or something like that.
  • ZigZagged with his girlfriend Elvira. For one thing, he also seemed to like her quite a bit, and even tried to have Tony killed at least partially because the latter was trying to win her over from Frank (though also because Tony had made a deal with Sosa in bolivia without Frank's consent or knowledge). Though Elvira was only with really him to begin with thanks to his wealth and status, and not so much for who he was a person, and when Tony corners him in his office, Frank promises to let Tony have her along with his drug cartel if the latter promises not to kill him. Tony ultimately takes both, and technically keeps his promise, he has Manny kill Frank instead.
• Face Death with Despair: He dies on his knees all the while pathetically groveling for his life. By the end Tony is bound to find him so pathetic that he can't even be bothered to kill him himself.
• A Father to His Men: Tries to act like this. It's just an act.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Goes from a feared drug kingpin to a guy begging for his life after the failed hit on Tony and the latter's subsequent coup against him.
• Karmic Death: Frank sends a group of people rather than take it upon himself to kill Tony. This is the exact same manner that Frank dies in, being killed by Manny on Tony's behalf instead of being finished off by Tony himself.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Signs off on Tony's death once his ambitious underling commits him to making dangerous deals, makes all too plain his designs on Frank's empire, starts attempting to mooch off his girlfriend from him, and his open insolences grow too great to suffer.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Frank Lopez operates his business "under the radar", not flaunting his wealth and operating a legitimate business with his auto dealership. This allows him to not be noticed by the police or being able to ally with the corrupt ones, and notes that the drug lords who want more than necessary die out. He's aghast when Tony of his own accord makes a deal with Alejandro Sosa to expand Frank's drug reach beyond Miami, and puts a hit out on him as a result.
  Frank: Remember when I told you when you first started working for me: the guys that last in this business are the guys who fly straight. Low-key, quiet. But the guys who want it all — chicas, champagne, flash... they don't last.
• Too Dumb to Live: For a gangster, he doesn't take security very seriously. Anyone can walk up to his unlocked office, which has a single henchman as its solitary line of defense, and whack him on the spot. This is precisely what Tony does after Frank sends a failed hit after him.
• Slimeball: While he tries to hide it, he's at least somewhat of a selfish prick who won't think twice about having one of his guys killed over business disagreements or his girlfriend.
• Villain Has a Point: Frank was absolutely correct: the guys that survive in this business are the ones who manage to stay underneath the radar. Those who want it all make powerful enemies and attract attention from law enforcement - which is exactly what happens to Tony. Frank is indicated to have been quietly building up his power for decades, but when Tony takes over his empire he manages to destroy it in barely a year.
• Villain with Good Publicity: To the general public, he presents himself as a friendly, gregarious philanthropist who even sponsors a little league baseball team. Too bad that he's also a murderous drug kingpin.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Tony. Averted as it's clear that they are mostly just using each other to achieve their own ends.

Omar Suarez

Omar Suarez

Played By: F. Murray Abraham

"Alright! Alright, big man? You wanna make some big bucks? Lets see how tough you are. Do you know something 'bout cocaine?"

Frank Lopez's right-hand man, who gives Tony Montana and his friends their first assignment.

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• Asshole Victim: Turns on Tony for his dealings with Sosa, then gets exposed as a cop informant and killed by Sosa's men. Not a smart move there. Bear in mind it's implied that he previously tried to have Tony killed by Hector at the motel, so Tony doesn't care when he's killed.
• The Dragon: Serves as this to Frank Lopez.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Tries to pull a gun on Tony after their first altercation.
• Jerkass: He starts out not believing in Tony's potential and rubbing it in unprovoked. Although to his credit, he acts cordial enough on rare occasions until Tony steps on his toes.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Acts as a buffer between Frank and Tony, and personally oversees the arragements for Tony and Manny to kill Emilio Rebenga in retalion for him torturing and killing Frank Lopez's brother.
• The Rival: To Tony, for a little while.
• Smug Snake: His slimy, arrogant personality and unsophisticated attitude certainly give off this vibe.
• Stimulant Speedtalk: Immediately distinguishes himself as a fast talker who's more than happy to swing the conversation towards insulting Tony when prompted and even pulls a gun on him before his bodyguard calms him down. It's not until he avails himself to a quick snort of coke in each nostril that the audience figures out exactly why.
• The Stool Pigeon: According to Sosa, he was a police informant.
• Undignified Death: As the hanged Omar is shown being flown away (still hanging by the cord) by Sosa's men, one of the designer shoes he previously ribbed Tony for not having earlier in the film falls off.

Mel Bernstein

Mel Bernstein

Played By: Harris Yulin

"Every day above ground is a good day."

A corrupt police detective on the payroll of Frank Lopez.

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• Asshole Victim: Since he was willfully complicit in Lopez's plan to have Tony killed, and also tried to extort Tony, no one's going to miss him when Tony pops a couple of bullets in him in revenge.
• Defiant to the End: Insults Tony before getting killed by him.
• Dirty Coward: Played with. He initially asks for mercy from Tony, but when the latter makes clear he's getting none in the most mocking manner possible, he furiously snarls abuse back at Tony up to his dying breath.
• Naughty Narcs: He's a corrupt narcotics officer who's in bed with a powerful narcotics trafficker. He's so dirty that even Tony questions why he calls himself a cop.
  Mel: [after getting shot in the stomach by Tony] Fuck. You can't shoot a cop!
  Tony: Whoever said you was one?
• Profane Last Words: "Fuck you!!!"
• Smug Snake: He clearly thinks that he's untouchable due to him being a cop. Long story short, he is not and Tony shows him just how wrong he really is.

Waldo Rojas

Waldo Rojas

Played By: Santos Morales

The Right-Hand man to Omar Suarez, The Dragon of the Lopez Cartel

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• The Dragon: To Omar Suarez, who in turn is this to Frank Lopez.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After he and Omar offer Tony and Manny a job, they drive away and Waldo is never seen again, not even with Omar.

Alejandro Sosa's Empire

Alejandro Sosa

Alejandro "Alex" Sosa

Played By: Paul Shenar

"I only tell you one time. Don't fuck me, Tony. Don't you ever try to fuck me."

A powerful Bolivian drug kingpin, and Tony's main supplier of cocaine for a duration of the film.

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• Arch-Enemy: To Tony Montana, at least in the videogame, not so much in the film though, where they only become enemies at the end of it. The videogame on the other hand is all about Tony's revenge on Sosa for destroing his drug empire and killing off his allies, and attempting to kill him too in the process.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Played with in his case. He succeeds in bringing down Tony Montana's drug empire in Miami after the latter botched an attempt to kill a journalist trying to put him behind bars, so on the surface, he seemingly wins... But the journalist still lived, all because of Tony's refusal to kill the journalists wife and kids, (something which Sosa couldn't have predicted) and was able to reveal Sosa's true colors on live television, and the police found a bomb planted under the journalist's car. Ultimately, while he was able to defeat Tony Montana in the climax of the film, whether he truly won at the end or not is left ambiguous.
• Big Bad: He is the most powerful gangster we see in the film, and towards the end of the movie, he firmly establishes himself as Tony's main enemy who even has Tony killed in the climax.
• The Chessmaster: He was able to build himself a massive cocaine operation that stretches across the Andes' Mountains (which is the longest mountain range in the whole wide world, as it spans across seven countries in South America) as well as being able to do business in the United States (which also makes his operations multi-continental, since it is in North America as well), identifies Omar Saurez as a police informant and swiftly has him killed to cover his tracks, almost succeeds in killing a journalist trying to bring down his criminal empire, and only fails because of Tony's refusal to kill the target's wife and two children when he saw them, (it's not as if Sosa could have predicted that they would have been there for the attempted hit), and in the climax of the movie, he is even able to successfully take down Tony Montana himself after the latter double-crossed him by sabotaging the mission, even if Sosa does ultimately get arrested for his crimes.
• The Don: Of the Bolivian drug trade, and is ultimately proven to be the most dangerous cartel kingpin in the film.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Implied to be the case at least. It's revealed during the third act of the film that Sosa is currently married and that his wife is pregnant, with just 3 months left until she's due to have the baby.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His voice is far deeper than Tony's, and he's defenitely not less evil than him as well either.
• Eviler than Thou: He doesn't have any standards to so speak of, unlike Tony who does.
• Faux Affably Evil: Despite being a well-mannered and well-spoken man, it's not for nothing that he gained his status as a "drug-overlord," as the TV spokesperson rightfully describes him as.
• Hero Killer: In the climax of the movie, he successfully arranges for Tony Montana to be killed at his mansion in retaltion for sabotaging the mission to kill the journalist who was trying to put Sosa behind bars, regardless of whether Sosa himself ultimately goes to prison for his crimes or not.
• Karma Houdini: Ambiguous case. On one hand, he succeeds in destroying Tony Montana and his entire gang, but on the other hand, Tony's prior failure to execute the reporter who was currently investigating him (the whole reason Sosa has Tony killed in the end) not only results in Sosa and his empire continuing to be under scrutiny (and even more so at that, since the journalist could not only give his speech, but the law enforcement even found the bomb that was planted underneath his car, which prompted them to provide him with additional security), but likely increased his exposure to the authorities, meaning he's still in hot water. And Sosa's confederates probably aren't going to be too happy with him, either.
• Leave No Witnesses: Has Omar Suarez killed after presumably discovering that he was a police informant in order to keep himself clean, then commissions Tony to attempt to kill a journalist who is trying to take down his cocaine empire, then after the Journalist survives and makes his speech at the UN, has Tony himself killed in retaliation for fucking up the hit and letting the journalist live.
• The Man Behind the Man: He is the most powerful drug dealer that we see in the film, supplying both Lopez and Tony with coke.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Sosa is a thinly-veiled Expy of Roberto Suárez Gómez, a prolific Bolivian drug kingpin who financed a 1980 coup d'état that installed a friendly military dictatorship. Much like Sosa, Gómez used his power and influence to have political rivals and whistleblowers murdered, and at the height of his career he was considered to be the biggest cocaine producer in the world.
• Non-Action Big Bad: Doesn't personally fight or do any of the dirty work himself, instead having guys like Alberto the Shadow and The Skull, and in one instance Tony carry out actions on his behalf. He doesn't even show up during the climactic final battle at Tony's mansion in Miami, instead sending The Skull to lead the charge.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cold-hearted, pragmatic, calculating Blue to Tony's Hot-Blooded, brash and impulsive Red.
• The Sociopath: An ice-cold cartel boss who thinks nothing of having another human being assaulted and then hanged from a helicopter, or ordering an innocent journalist to be blown up to avoid having to go to prison, or sending an army of goons to kill the specific man who stops the hit from being carried out.
• Uncertain Doom: Tony sabotaging his assassination attempt on a reporter leaves his criminal acts exposed. Whether or not he escapes or faces prosecution is not confirmed before the film ends, but he makes damn sure that Tony goes down no matter what happens to him.
• Villain Ball: His particular approach to attempting to have the journalist silenced could easily come across as this to some viewers. He goes to the step of trying to assassinate a reporter (in broad daylight) who has exposed his drug operation, potentially right in front of the United Nations, and conscripts another drug kingpin (who himself is dealing with his own legal troubles) to carry out the act. Besides the fact that killing him via carbomb right in front of the United Nations wouldn't just attract more attention, it would also be considered an act of terrorism that would bring the entire U.S. Army knocking on his doorstep. It would arguably be smarter to kill him in a drive-by shooting or arrange a mugging or an accident, but neither the film itself nor anyone else ever bother to address this little fact. Though to be fair, it's possible he thought that Tony and his guys could just make a clean escape, or even if they did get caught, that the law enforcement could not specifally prove that Sosa organized the attack since Sosa would be in another continent when it happened, and plus, it's not as if Sosa would have had an unlimited amount of time to architect the hit, as the journalist had a set timeline for when he was going to make his speech.
• Villainous Breakdown: Downplayed. While he certainly isn't constantly screaming and jumping up and down or throwing things at the wall, he is pretty visibly pissed off at Tony during his climactic phone call to him in the third act. And understandably so at that, as Tony purposefully sabotaged the mission to kill the journalist who was trying to bring down Sosa's empire, even citing how he was able to make his speech at the United Nations revealing Sosa. This is the most angry he ever gets in the film, especially considering how he kept a cool head when he had Omar killed, and commisioned said attempt on the journalist's life to begin with.
• Wicked Cultured: The reporter that he wants Tony to assassinate for him mentions that in a TV interview that he comes from "a very good family" and was educated in England.

The Skull

The Skull

Played By: Geno Silva

Sosa's main henchman.

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• Cool Shades: He's always seen wearing a pair of sunglasses, even at nighttime. Makes him look very similar to a Terminator.
• The Dragon: Serves as this to Alejandro Sosa. He carries out whatever dirty work Sosa doesn't want to have to do himself.
• Hero Killer: Kills Nick offscreen (The Skull has his shotgun pointed point-blank at Nick's head and we see the Skull firing) and personally shoots and kills Tony Montana in the climax with a shotgun blast to the back after sneaking up on him from behind though the balcony window into his office.
• Karma Houdini: Like his boss, he seemingly gets away with his crimes in the film (that is, unless of course one discounts the vague implications that that they might actually be brought down anyways). The game however is another matter...
• Laser-Guided Karma: In the game's alternate possibilities, he's taken out by Tony in the first mission, setting the stage for Tony's Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Sosa.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Attacks and then hangs Omar Suarez out of a helicopter.
• The Quiet One: Doesn't speak much, if at all. But he does shout furiously at Omar when he kills him.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: Wields a double-barreled shotgun during the assault on Tony's mansion, and is even what he uses to kill Tony in the climax.
• The Spook: Nothing is known about him except that he is Sosa's top henchmen - even his nickname is only given in the credits.

Alberto "The Shadow"

Alberto "The Shadow"

Played By: Mark Margolis

An assassin sent by Alejandro Sosa to assist Tony Montana and his men in killing a journalist trying to put his boss in prison.

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• Asshole Victim: Anyone who is willing to blow up two children and their mother won't have that much sympathy from anyone. Though, he does mention that if Sosa says that they must make a move, they make a move with a little bit of nervousness...
• Bald of Evil: He's balding and is one of Sosa's more ruthless thugs.
• Kick the Dog: Still attempting to blow up the journalist's car even while his wife and kids are inside of it.
• Lack of Empathy: Even the journalist having his wife and two children accompanying him isn't enough stop Alberto from attempting to carry out the hit. Instead it's Tony's bullet to the head that actually does it.
• Mad Bomber: Attempts to blow up Gutierrez and his family up with a car bomb. Thankfully, Tony stops him before he gets a chance to do such.
• Morton's Fork: Even if he wanted to spare Gutierrez' family, it's not like he had a whole lot of choice in the matter - missing their shot would've probably just put him in Sosa's crosshairs along with Tony.
• Oh, Crap!: Just moments before Tony shoots his brains all over the passenger side window. All Alberto can do is vainly shield his head before Tony blows a hole in it.
  Tony: You die, motherfucker!
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Assists The Skull in attacking Omar Suarez and then hanging him from a helicopter. Prior to that, he's actually the one who receives the phone call which presumably confirms that Omar was duplicitous, and then informs Sosa of such, who then takes swift action.
• The Quiet One: Much like The Skull, he doesn't really speak that much.
• Too Dumb to Live: Tries to go ahead with blowing up Gutierrez and his family, even when it's become very clear to him that Tony won't do it. Next moment, his brains are all over the passenger side window.
• Would Hit a Girl: Overlaps with Would Hurt a Child, as he tries to do away with Gutierrez's wife and children when they accompany him in the car. Fortunately, he fails though as Tony blows his brains out just before he can do away with them.

Hector the Toad's Drug Dealers

Hector the Toad

Hector the Toad

Played By: Al Israel

"Hey, watch what happens to your friend! You don't want this to happen to you, give me the money, okay?"

A Colombian drug dealer from whom Tony and his friends are ordered by Omar Suarez to purchase cocaine.

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• Asshole Victim: Being repeatedly shot by Manny, falling out a window, and then finally getting shot in the face by Tony in the road serves him right given the way that he had previously slaughtered poor Angel.
• Ax-Crazy: Hector loves to play with his chainsaw to kill his victims. One of Tony's henchmen ends up learning this little fact the hard way.
• Chainsaw Good: Dismembers Angel with one, and is ready to use it on Tony before he's thankfully stopped by Tony's allies whom the latter had previously warned in advance.
  Hector: Now the leg, huh?
• Hate Sink: He is a brutal, double-crossing Jerkass of a drug dealer who happily dismembers people with a chainsaw. And therefore, it stands to reason that he is one of the most disgusting characters in the film despite only appearing at the beginning of it. He carves up Tony's friend Angel to death with a chainsaw just to taunt Tony after the two of them didn't pay him, as well as just for his own sadistic cheer, all the while also forcing the former to witness it, and then attempts to do the same thing to the latter, and only doesn't do it because of Manny and his friends coming to the rescue for Tony.
• Kick the Dog: Brutally killing Angel in front of Tony with a chainsaw. Full stop.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After giving Angel a Cruel and Unusual Death via his chainsaw, he himself meets a relatively ugly demise when he’s shot with half a magazine worth of bullets and then falls out a window before being finished off in the streets by Tony.
• Made of Iron: Absorbs roughly half of a magazine from Manny's submachinegun, and then falls three stories out of a window. He still just barely has enough left in him to walk a short distance before Tony finds him and finishes him off in the street.
• Starter Villain: The first rival drug dealer, and also by extension the first real threat from within the drug business that Tony and his friends have to deal with.

Marta

Marta

Played By: Barbara Perez

Hector the Toad's girlfriend who accompanies him at the drug deal with Tony and Angel.

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• Asshole Victim: Considering she helped Hector kidnap Tony and Angel, and even pointed a gun at them while the latter was carved up with a chainsaw by Hector, you're not likely to feel bad for her when Manny kills her to save Tony.
• The Dragon: Is seemingly this to Hector, and his girlfriend too.
• More Dakka: Shown wielding a MAC-10 machine pistol as her weapon.

Other Characters

Emilio Rebenga

Emilio Rebenga

Played By: Roberto Contreras

A former Cuban Military General for Fidel Castro who fell out of his graces and was exiled to Miami.

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• Asshole Victim: The first person that Tony Montana kills onscreen, since he was a torturer for Fidel Castro, and also killed Frank Lopez's brother, it's hard to miss him.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Tortured and killed several people (including Frank Lopez's brother) under Fidel Castro's regime.
• Dirty Communists: A Cuban military general and torturer in Fidel Castro's communist Cuba. Tony hates communists.
• Offscreen Villainy: His background as a military Torturer in communist Cuba is only ever mentioned and is never shown onscreen.
• Small Role, Big Impact: His military torturer background, along with his killing of Frank Lopez's brother are what get him targeted for termination by Lopez, who conscripts Tony and Manny to kill Rebenga, thus allowing the latter two and their friends to get their hands on green cards so as to have free passage into the United States, and also go into business with Lopez's drug empire. Also, his murder is used as leverage by Mel Bernstein to extort Tony and his friends later on.
• Starter Villain: Downplayed, but technically speaking, he is the first villain that Tony kills during the movie, and at the beginning of it no less. The reason that it's a downplayed example is because Rebenga poses basically no threat for Tony or his allies, who are trained military soldiers who kill him with relative ease. Since they and the refugees at freedomtown hate Castro's communists, they even actively support it.

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