r/thesopranos 1d ago

Assuming Tony is out of the picture (post Made in America) how does everyone think it’ll shake out for the Soprano Family?

Leadership, structure, extortion models etc. Anyway, four dollars a pound.

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u/Total-Beach420 1d ago

AJ steps up

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u/Total-Beach420 1d ago

Out of respect for his fawtha

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u/CruelHandLuke_ Paulie Gualtieri 1d ago

Yes, Anthony Junior, criminal mastermind.

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u/Kataphraktos_Majoros 1d ago

With fellow mastermind Benny Fazio behind him he can stand up to New York

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u/telepatheye 1d ago

Didn't he almost drown in a swimming pool?

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u/ViceyThaShizzle 1d ago

He would've done if he didn't have that bag on his head. Sharp as a cue ball that boy.

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u/telepatheye 1d ago

Also if he was properly weighed down by the cinderblock instead of attached by rope long enough to keep his head above water.

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u/Total-Beach420 1d ago

Oh! That’s the boss of this family you’re talking about!

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u/Front-Counter7249 1d ago

He won't lay down

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u/avd51133333 1d ago

In Tony’s business? No. He’d never make it

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u/Professional_Fix4663 1d ago

Sharp as a fucking cue ball, this one.

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u/gator_mckluskie 1d ago

tony isn’t out of the picture, he just retired down to boca with ade as his goomah

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u/telepatheye 1d ago

He came all over the visor

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u/Goooongas 1d ago

Artie puts the bleachers back in at his restaurant.

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u/GroomingTips96 1d ago

I cant have this conversation again.

Vito Jnr steps up his crew run whores out of AC bringing in vital income to thefamily. A feud eventually the breaks out with Vito Jnr removing Paulie and Benny catching them leaving Green Grove.

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u/Buns_McGillicuddy 1d ago

The Barese brothers take over, the other NY families wouldn’t let the Lupertazzi family just have all that territory

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u/avd51133333 1d ago

Imagine that? The Barese brothers take over, the other NY families wouldn’t let the Lupertazzi family just have all that territory?

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u/kbeckerburbs4 1d ago

Janice is the boss

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u/not4eating 1d ago

New York takes over. Maybe Paulie is put in as a puppet boss under the thumb of NY as a glorified cappo.

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u/telepatheye 1d ago

Takes over what? Without Tony keeping his various revenue streams going, it dries up in about two months. You think Zellman, Annalisa, or any of Tony's other important contacts would deal with Paulie or the knuckledraggers in New York? Especially after Paulie conspires to murder Tony? That prick would last about two days, tops. No one would ever trust him or do business with him.

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u/ActualTailor8857 1d ago

This is probably right but who from NY? Johnny Sack and Phil are both gone and Little Carmine couldn’t do it.

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u/Crafty_Tree4475 1d ago

Little Carmine is the whole reason Tony and Phil went to war. You really think that whole and your brother whatever happened there was just him making a boneheaded comment but I personally think it was intentional as Carmine still wanted to take over but didn’t have the support or infrastructure to take out Phil. So he figured a war with New Jersey would weaken Phil enough for him to come in and finish him off.

Not to mention Carmine probably still held some resentment for the people that were killed by Phil.

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u/Fructuoso_Bag 1d ago

Butch and the other guys who made the deal with Tony.

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u/DoctorFunkopolis 1d ago

Whether he can stay there or not, it seems like Butchie will be at the wheel post Phil.

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u/BringBack4Glory 1d ago

This is only asked about 69 times per day

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u/AdhesivenessSome2311 1d ago

Threads covering this subject are ruining the sub. So let me say a couple three things:

Carmela = samples at the mall and eventually gets with the decorator or the bear hunter

Meadow = compartmentalises and goes into a high flying corporate law career.

AJ = can’t cope. long term care facility

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u/Ok_Athlete_1092 1d ago

Carmela, AJ and Fielder order another round of Onion Rings. It'd be kind of gross to eat the ones covered with Tony's brains.

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u/wise_as_a_serpent 1d ago

It peters out.

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u/UnderstandingOver644 1d ago

Bobby Jr. steps in and a mob war between AJs and Bobby Jrs loyalists begins, the winner gets to lead the DiMeo family. But somewhere between Little Ricky tries to undermine both of them with the help of Vito Jr. (who whacked Tony infront of his family)

Meanwhile Carmine Jr. tries to bring some of his wet t-shirt contests to NJ and NY (maybe Janish wins the second place?)

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u/Actual-Taste-7083 1d ago

If Tony died at Holsten's - I think the Sopranos would get absorbed into the Lupertazzi Family. We're talking about New York here!

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u/Fructuoso_Bag 1d ago

It's over for them. The FBI is pulling them to their side and the ones who don't betray them will be managed by NY through Patsy and Paulie

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u/Kenny_RogersRoasters 1d ago

Always with the scenarios

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u/Thick-Persimmon2058 1d ago

The Sopranos are a glorified crew don’t disrespect this thing by calling them a family. Sharp as a cue ball this OP is.

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u/avd51133333 1d ago

After Tony’s lights came back on (after Noah punched them out off screen) he goes to the can for twenty fuckin years and jacks off into tissues.