Who is the most intelligent main character in a mobster show?

I’ll go first:

  1. Tony Soprano - The Sopranos
  2. Enoch "Nucky" Thompson
  3. Thomas Shelby - Peaky Blinders
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xtr0n@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

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

los_chill@programming.dev · 26 pts · 2y

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

YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

Always the accountant.

oneguynick@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

For sure Thomas Shelby

neardeaf@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

oneguynick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y

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

Blake@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y

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

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

neptune@dmv.social · 3 pts · 2y

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

chowder@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y

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

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y

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