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* [[Hot-Blooded]]
* [[The Hyena]]
* [[Kick the Dog]]: He speaks very ill of {{spoiler|Angela}} after {{spoiler|she}} dies and casually abandons Jimmy in the
* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]
* [[Morality Pet]]: His deaf son is one for him.
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* [[Crazy Prepared]]: He even makes his [[Mooks]] sign life insurance policies with himself as the beneficiary.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: He has a rather cute interaction with his wife in
* [[Evil Mentor]]: To Luciano and Lansky.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: He's always polite and well-spoken and particularly witty, but is utterly ruthless.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Once caused a man to choke to death simply for fun.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]: There are chips from the Brook casino on his desk in "To the Lost", which was the real Rothstein's most infamous business venture.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: He mentions that he once forced a man to choke to death for his own amusement, adding, "what do you think I'll do to you, if you don't tell me who hired you to kill
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: When it's in his interest, he is very willing to call off taking revenge and work with his enemies.
* [[Professional Gambler]]: And he wins loads of money that way [[Magnificent Bastard|because he is that damn good.]]
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* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]
* [[Soft-Spoken Sadist]]
* [[Stepford Smiler]]
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Straight Edge Evil]]: Doesn't swear, drink, or womanize.
* [[The Teetotaler]]: He likes to stay sharp at the table.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: There's definite hints of this in
'''Charlie "Lucky" Luciano'''
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to Lanksy (and Rothstein's) blue.
* [[The Starscream]]: Turning against Rothstein is really more Lansky's idea, but Lucky doesn't really protest too much and begins to embrace the idea.
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Not so much in season one, but in
* [[Young Future Famous People]]
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