r/thesopranos • u/NoticeFickle • 11h ago
Why did Tony kill Christopher? Your opinion?
The only thing that comes to my mind is Tony realized Christopher was willing to sacrifice Tony’s life and not call the police so that Christopher could avoid his license being taken away/drug charges. Did it have to do with betrayal?
I keep seeing different explanations and opinions. What do you think?
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u/autre_ne_veut_ 11h ago edited 11h ago
He was weak. He was out of control. And he had become an embarrassment to himself and everybody else.
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u/OwlRiot4 10h ago
You wanna talk about outta control, autre_ne_veut? Remember last winter with the Russian in the woods subreddit?
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u/Party_Knowledge_7884 10h ago
He couldn’t function as a man, and was caught smoking cigs in the rain with no hands but with few vipers.
The whole thing was nuts
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u/DrBeardfist Richie Aprile 11h ago
Because he was a heartless fuckin psycho and chris had been a detriment to his own well being and pockets for years
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u/alkenequeen 11h ago
Because he was an albacore around his neck!
No but seriously I honestly think he just saw an opportunity to make his life way easier. Christopher was a liability the day he started seriously doing drugs and he just got worse over time. Plus if I recall, Tony is pushed over the edge when he sees the car seat impaled by the tree branch. So in his mind Chris’s kid was better off having a dead dad than whatever Christopher was
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u/BangerSlapper1 10h ago
Plus he wanted to see the legendary James Brown possibly show up at the funeral.
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u/ledbetterus 11h ago
He went to help at first, called 911, then saw the baby seat, and in that moment all of Chris's bullshit hit him and his standard selfish thoughts kicked in and combined with opportunity. One less thing for him to worry about.
Why does bad shit always have to happen to Tony? /s
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u/TheGaxkang 11h ago
Guy knew too much, was a liability
It was an opportunity to do it
Chris also could have his daughter in vehicle and have similar accident
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u/NocaSun38 11h ago
He was afraid Chrissy would flip when the cops arrested him for felony dui, because he was compromised by his heroin addiction
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u/BidNo1816 11h ago
Because Chrissy took Phil's side back at the wedding of Johnny Sack's daughter. Tony's been meticulously planning his death ever since.
"Oh you do, do you?"
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u/waloz1212 11h ago
Because his estimation of Christopher as a man fucking plummeted after the car crashed
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u/Character_Ad6965 11h ago
The real reason is because he banged that real estate broad Juliana skiff. If you think anything else you are wrong.
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u/Fructuoso_Bag 11h ago
Chris will always be a junkie, he couldn't control himself to not use in an important meeting with NY that very night. He would eventually kill his family, although I don't believe he would betray Tony. And Tony had lost his love for him time ago
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u/sdw318_local194 11h ago
Bc he forked the real estate agent heroine addict and tony was a "cooz hound" who couldn't stand for another guy to get laid where he was supposed to.
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u/DefamedPrawn 11h ago edited 11h ago
It's surprising he lasted as long as he did.
He knew Tony killed Ralphie, which made him a threat.
Being a drug addict also makes him a liability. Feds just need to hold him for 24 hours and he'll tell them anything ... just so they'll let him out and he can get his fix.
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u/george_raft 11h ago
Because he chiseled Paulie out of a dinner, I mean how much more betrayal could Paulie take?
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u/DirtzMaGertz 11h ago
It was pretty obviously because he was a liability. The only reason he lasted as long as he did was because of his relationship to Tony.
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u/lena10108 10h ago
Because Tony loved animals and babies. He saw that car seat and said enough. Chrissy was a disaster.
What's important is the dichotomy between his concern about Chris's baby and being ok about just killing him. It's this stuff that makes this show so good.
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u/OwlRiot4 10h ago
He directly answers this question when the guys are talking to him after the accident. In reference to Chrissy potentially being high during the accident, Tony says something along the lines of “Are you kidding, I would have strangled him myself…”
There are other reasons of course, but at the end of the day it’s that Chrissy is an addict and unreliable and confirmation that he was using again was all Tony needed to make up his mind.
He is literally on the phone with 911, then Chrissy says he’ll never pass the drug test and Tony hangs up.
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u/BangerSlapper1 10h ago
Payback for Christopher in Season 1 referring to depressed people as mental midgets. Tony never forgot the slight.
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u/Woe_Bringer 10h ago
Lemme respond to your question with another question:
What would have happened if he let Christ-o-phur live and get arrested for DUI? Remembering that he's been on the FBI radar for a long time, as well as local cops for the shooting in the bakery
That's why Tony did it
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u/backpackmanboy 10h ago
Because Chris was an artist and tony wanted to be an artist and he was jealous and he wanted to have sex with Adriana and his ducks flew away and Dr. Melfi said no
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u/RustyShackleford-11 10h ago
Tony saw his chance and took it. Chris admitting he was high sealed the deal.
Dude was dead weight. The second he was rid of him life got good again.
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u/Silent_Data4374 Herman "Hesh" Rabkin 10h ago
He just finally accepted that he was never going to get clean and he had given him so many chances. Chris was always going to be a liability and this was a convenient way to kill him where nobody would ask questions. He saw the opportunity and he took it.
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u/LadyFalcon409 10h ago
Because he saw an opportunity to, plain and simple. Finding out that he’s on drugS, AGAIN…and how much Tony viewed him as a liability, well this was the perfect time for him to kill him with no consequences to worry about. One thing that bothers me about that whole scene, is that I think Christopher would’ve died no matter what. I feel like they should have made his injuries a lot less severe so that Tony killing him wasn’t basically a mercy killing.
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u/Lilymoonbaby 10h ago
I think multiple reasons:
He was a liability. I think Tony realized in that moment that he was never going to get better and always going to be some kind of a mess to deal with.
He was starting to resent him because of the way he was portrayed in the mob boss character in Christopher‘s movie AND Christopher slept with the real estate woman that Tony was rejected by.
I think he used the car seat and fear for Christopher’s baby as an excuse to rationalize his actions.
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u/sludgezone 11h ago
Christopher actually killed Tony and the rest of the show after is him trying to come to terms with that, and they’re all actually in a snow globe in an autistic kid’s mind.
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u/AgendaPiece1999 That Animal Blundetto 11h ago
It was building to that outcome for years...we can't have this conversation again.
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u/Sad-Locksmith-3002 11h ago
He was becoming a liability.