Martin Scorsese Codexery

Characters & Archetypes

16 entries in the Martin Scorsese compendium.

Characters & Archetypes — Era Chart

Bill Cutting1846Amsterdam Vallon1846Jimmy Hoffa1960Travis Bickle1973Frank Costello2006
Jimmy HoffaA judge who saw what no one else knew before it happened.Travis BickleA lonely veteran drives through a rotting city, seeking purpose in violence and blood.Bill CuttingThe Butcher who ruled Five Points until a Dead Rabbit returned to claim his life.Amsterdam VallonA son returns to avenge his father and end a bloody feud that has torn New York apart.Tommy DeVitoA short-tempered enforcer whose unpredictability seals his own fate in the criminal underwJake LaMottaA champion who punches his own life into a pulp, one jealous swing at a time.Henry HillThe life of the mind, the body, and the bullet that finds you when you least expect it.Joey LaMottaA man who could outbox anyone in the world but couldn't outlive himself.Jimmy ConwayThe coldest man in the room never raises his voice, only his hand.Ginger McKennaThe woman the mob couldn't own, and the world that broke trying to.Sam RothsteinThe man who could count every card in the deck still lost the hand.Frank CostelloA king built on fists, haunted by the ghost of a single traitor he can never name.The PriestA man in black robes, standing where the blood meets the altar.CharlieThe man who got out of the street but never lost the beat.Frank SheeranThe man who drove the truck, killed the men, and never once asked why.Russell BufalinoThe quietest man in the room is the one who decides who walks out of it.
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