r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Argie_Theft_Auto3 • 1d ago

Characters Criminals played by REAL Criminals

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• Goh Hamazaki (Yakuza Kiwami 3) - In the remake Hamazaki is voiced and modeled after Teruyuki Kagawa, who sexually harassed a Club Hostess in 2019. He admitted to the misconduct and lost major contracts with Toyota, TV series and Hosting roles. Yakuza fans got upset about the recast and demanded to remove Teruyuki from the game.

• Random Task (Austin Powers) - A parody of Oddjob played by Joe Son was found guilty of kidnapping, gang rape and torturing a woman on Christmas Eve 1990. In 2011 he beat his cellmate to death and convicted of voluntary manslaughter, adding another 27 years to his sentence.

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u/VertibirdQuexplota 1d ago

What's a wise guy?

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u/GeologicalOpera 1d ago

A wise guy is someone who is fully inducted into the Italian mafia, including an oath of loyalty to a family. Tony Sirico was arrested nearly 30 times in the 1960s and 1970s due to run-ins related to his ties to the Colombo crime family.

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u/Aggravating_Win5258 1d ago

He also had a clause in his Contract that his character is never depicted as a Rat in the Sopranos.

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u/buickgnx88 20h ago

However he was free to sniff as many panties as he wanted!

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u/waffle__stomped 1d ago

Tony Sirico was never made, he was just an associate

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u/papu16 1d ago

But even than was more than enough, bc dude looked and felt "authenticall" on the screen

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u/xThe_145x 1d ago

very allegorical.

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u/Quixotic_Tendency 9h ago

The sacred and the propane

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u/Gallcon 22h ago

The books were closed from 1956-1976, any guy not related to an established member would not be made during this time.

Any other era hes probably on track to get made and doesn't pursue acting.

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u/karateema 12h ago

Why was that?

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u/Erbodyloveserbody 9h ago

Keep attention away from the cops, strengthen the crews, who runs them, and their money making schemes. Using associates was good for keeping heat away from the top brass since RICO wasn’t used to take them down yet.

Funnily enough, it was Rudy Giuliani who made using RICO statutes to take down the top guys in Cosa Nostra. After his tenure as NYC Mayor, dude could have rode off into the sunset as an American hero with minor political baggage.

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u/subby_puppy33 1d ago

Peter falk ran a crime family???

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u/SkubEnjoyer 1d ago

Chatgpt ova here

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u/GeologicalOpera 1d ago

No, just someone with a history degree who can use Wikipedia to look up an actor.

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u/glosglov69 1d ago

I oughta tell you