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{{Useful Notes}}
[[File:Al_Capone_9921.jpg|frame|"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."]]
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'''Not''' a member of [[The Mafia]], although his organization, the [[wikipedia:Chicago Outfit|Chicago Outfit]], as well as Capone himself, sat on The Commission. Within a few years of his rise to power, the ethnic divisions in the American mob effectively became meaningless.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: He was generous, friendly and polite as long as You didn't try and screw him over.
* [[Afraid of Needles]]: He died of syphilis because he refused a vaccination.
* [[Batter Up]]: See [[Nasty Party]] bellow.
* [[Brooklyn Rage]]
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* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Scarface (the scars were from playing with a knife as a kid
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|Evil Scars]]
* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre The St. Valentines Day] Massacre didn't get that name for nothing.
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Worked with a group of notoriously violent bootleggers called "The Purple Gang."
* [[Friend to All Children]] / [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: He went from a street punk and Chicago bouncer to one of the most powerful mobsters in America in only six years.
* [[Gangsterland]]: One of the first names everybody associates with the trope.
* [[Intimidating Revenue Service]]: Ironically, this was how the police finally busted him; ironically, he was known to brag that the IRS couldn't touch him because illegally gained money doesn't count as "income".
* [[Just One Little Mistake]]: After a lifetime of crime, he got nailed for ''[[Justice by Other Legal Means|tax evasion]]''.
* [[Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club]]: He used laundries as a front for his dealings (hence the idiom "money laundering").
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* [[Mob War]]: Against the Irish North Side Gang, culminating in the infamous Valentine's Day Massacre.
* [[More Dakka]]: His name is nearly synonymous with the Thompson Submachine Gun, aka "The Chicago Typewriter."
* [[Nasty Party]]: In 1929, Al Capone learned that three men intended to betray him. He invited them to a lavish banquet, and once they'd eaten and drunk their fill ordered his bodyguards to tie the men to their chairs. Capone worked all three over with a [[Batter Up|baseball bat]], before finally ordering his guards to shoot the would-be betrayers and dump the remains.
* [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters]]: During [[The Great Depression]] he [[Pet the Dog|set up soup lines in Chicago]].
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Phony Veteran]]: At times, he passed his prominent facial scars off as old war wounds, but he never served in the military.
* [[Senseless Violins]]: His gang used this trick at least once.
* [[The Virus]]: It's been proposed that part of his ruthless, ragging personality was caused by him suffering from third stage syphillys, which had no treatment at the time. His son Albert Francis Capone was born with congenital syphilis as well due to this.
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* ''[[The Adventures of Tintin|Tintin in America]]'', where he serves as the [[Big Bad]].
* ''[[Scarface]]'', the original B&W film, has [[Expy]] of Al Capone Toni Camonte as a protagonist.
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* ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'': A foil for [[Jesse James]] in the second season. {{spoiler|He loses.}}
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'': Him and his gang are Kishin eggs, though the writer seems to have made the "mafia" mistake.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'': His undead spirit is the [[Villain of the Week]] in one episode, he and his gang ruling a gangster-themed Hell dimension.
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