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Who is the most intelligent main character in a mobster show? (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I’ll go first:

  1. Tony Soprano - The Sopranos
  2. Enoch "Nucky" Thompson
  3. Thomas Shelby - Peaky Blinders
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not the main character but Gus Fring was a remarkably intelligent gangster.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Basically all of the high up characters in the Gilliverse are super smart. Mike, Walt, Jimmy, Lalo, Gus, Hector. Eladio and Tuco are the only ones I can think of who ever exhibit any amount of stupid

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Walter White. What other mob/cartel boss could actually engineer their criminal product?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Always the accountant.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For sure Thomas Shelby

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

SPOILERS but Reason why I knocked Tommy Shelby down a bit is because my wife and I are rewatching it now, and I kinda thought Tommy telling John it’s okay that he threatened the sons dad was dumb. That event got Grace killed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It has been a bit since I did a full rewatch, but fair enough. I will add it to my todo :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Stringer Bell in The Wire is clever, though he still makes a few mistakes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Not a main character per se, but Stringer Bell from the wire.

Tom Hagen from the Godfather (not a show, but whatever!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just got to the end of season three of the wire. Not Stringer Bell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Genny and Ciro in Gomorrah, and Don Minu in ZeroZeroZero.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Probably some supervillain. It's pretty easy to write a character that thinks impossibly far ahead if you don't mind being campy.