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| “ | Nothing's personal? What the f*** is LIFE if it's not personal?!? | „ |
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Giuseppe Colombano "Gyp" Rosetti is the main antagonist of Season 3 of the HBO crime drama Boardwalk Empire.
He is the right-hand man of Joe Masseria, a bootlegger crime lord during the Prohibition era. With an insanely volatile temper, Gyp is willing to kill people on a whim for simply inconveniencing him. He enters a rivalry with the series main protagonist Nucky Thompson after Nucky chooses to sell alcohol to Arnold Rothstein over Gyp, leading him to starting a war with Nucky out of vengeance for being snubbed.
He was portrayed by Bobby Cannavale.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He is a mob boss during the Prohibition era. While his selling of alcohol is not inherently amoral due to alcohol being legal to sell in the modern day, as a crime boss he commits several other illegal activities, ranging from theft and property destruction to outright murder.
- He beats a random man to death with a tire iron due to the man pointing out that Gyp does not know what 3-in-One Oil is.
- After Nucky chooses to sell oil to Arnold Rothstein over Gyp, he responds by starting a war with Nucky due to feeling as though he has been snubbed.
- When The Sheriff of Tabor Heights wishes Gyp "good luck" after noticing that he is in a bad mood, Gyp proceeds to pour gasoline on him and then light him on fire, killing him.
- When Gyp blocks Nucky's shipment of liquor to Rothstein, Nucky makes a truce with him and agrees to sell him liquor in the future if the blockade is lifted. This would normally be the end of things, but after Nucky says "good luck" to Gyp, he takes this as an insult and goes to war with him anyways, murdering several of Nucky's men.
- Gyp's attack on Nucky's men leads to Rothstein trying to have him killed, prompting Gyp to return to New York. Once he gets there he finds that a lot of his territory has been lost, which causes his mental state to spiral further. He goes to a church to console himself and when a priest asks him to be quieter, he proceeds to beat and rob the priest in anger.
- Gyp's repeated failures lead Masseria to consider killing him, but Gyp talks him out of it by pointing out how powerful Nucky and Rothstein will be if they work together. Masseria agrees, and gives Gyp some of his men to take the two of them down and give them control over Atlantic City, with Gyp's first act to try and have the two of them killed by blowing up Babette's supper club. This event leads to an outright gang war with numerous deaths on both sides.
- During his war with Nucky he is at one point seen sitting on the beach with Tonino, his head enforcer and Franco, Tonino's cousin. Things seem normal, but when Franco off-handedly explains ocean terminology to Gyp it angers him as he interprets it as Franco trying to show him up, and he proceeds to bury Franco in sand and leave him to die. When Franco asks him to have mercy on his cousin, Gyp beats Franco to death with a shovel.
- Even after having Masseria turn against him and clearly losing the gang war, he refuses to back down even after being urged to do so by Tonino, prompting Tonino to stab him to death in exchange for being spared by Nucky.
Trivia[]
- While Gyp is generally considered to be Faux Affably Evil, some of his moments could be interpreted differently, such as his affability towards his paperboy. If these moments were determined to be genuine affability rather than a facade, he would no longer qualify as PE.
External Links[]
- Gyp Rosetti on the Wikipedia
- Gyp Rosetti on the Villains Wiki
- Gyp Rosetti on the Boardwalk Empire Wiki