History Characters / DeadwoodHearstCompany

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"This place displeases me. I’m taking measures to bring it down."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness. But I am [[EvenEvilHasStandards not a government official.]]"'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Self-interest is immutable, but it's dictates vary daily."'']]

* GenreSavvy: She knows her boss is not a good person and warns Odell about such.

-->'''Jarry:''' And you, Mr. Wolcott, I find you the most severe disappointment of all.
-->'''Wolcott:''' Often to myself as well.

* AffablyEvil: His self-deprecating humor is disarming.

->'''Played By:''' Garret Dillahunt

->'''Played By:''' Gerald [=McRaney=]

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!Agents

[[folder:Captain Turner]]
!!Captain Joe Turner
->'''Played By:''' Alan Graf

George Hearst's large and imposing right hand man.

[[folder:Aunt Lou]]
!!'Aunt' Lou Marchbanks
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->'''Played By:''' Cleo King

A former slave, currently serving as Hearst's cook. She takes over the Grand Hotel kitchen after Hearst buys the building and makes friendship with Richardson.

* ApronMatron: Her role in the Hearst household.
* GenreSavvy: She knows her boss is not a good person and warns Odell about such.
* HiddenDepths: Her 'happy mammy' act masks a highly intelligent and savvy survivor.
* MoralityPet: Initially she seems to be one for George Hearst, but it's quickly subverted. Hearst likes her in the way he would like a dog, and for her part Aunt Lou despises him. She's likely spent her entire life witnessing his brutality and being forced to listen to his self-obsessed monologues.
* NonIndicativeName: Lampshaded when Alma wrongly assumes that she is Hearst's real aunt.
* [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Mammy]]: She acts very much like a {{Mammy}}, 'happy slave' or MagicalNegro for Hearst. In reality, she's very perceptive and hates Hearst just as much as anyone else.
* OddFriendship: She quickly enters into a genuine and heart-warming friendship with Richardson, Farnum's idiotic ButtMonkey. The intelligent Aunt Lou could probably do better when it comes to friends, but Aunt Lou seems to appreciate having someone she can be herself in front of, and Richardson is starved for kindness.
%%* SassyBlackWoman
* SupremeChef: Her cooking is good enough to endear her to Hearst.

!Allies

[[folder:Jarry]]
!!Hugo Jarry
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Self-interest is immutable, but it's dictates vary daily."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/StephenTobolowsky

-->''"Had you vision as well as sight, you would recognize within me not only a man, but an institution and the future as well."''

A bottomlessly corrupt high comissioner whose two goals are to ensure that Deadwood is annexed to the territory of Dakota and that Hearst's agenda is fulfilled, in no particular order.

* CityMouse: Jarry is from the big city, and is acquainted with ruthlessness but not the raw aggression of Deadwood.
* DirtyCoward: He cowers in a cage when confronted by Steve.
%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a smug, condescending jackass.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Jarry seems to be heading the same way as Hearst, escaping Deadwood unscathed. A subversion is implied when he alludes to being in some trouble with the law for defrauding the county.]]
* ProfessionalButtKisser: To the point where Hearst is prompted to ask him, 'Do you want to fuck me?'. Of course, it was due to a metaphorical mix-up involving Socrates, but then Jarry launches into a little monologue about how if he ''were'' courting Hearst, he'd be great at it.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Oh, massively. Rather than his obstructiveness being a side effect of his job, it's his genuine intent to be obstructive to serve Hearst's purpose.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Unlike Merrick, he uses this as a weapon in his written documents to fool others.
%%* SleazyPolitician
* {{Slimeball}}: Even Cy is disgusted by this charmless fool.
* SmugSnake: Jarry has a hugely inflated opinion of himself for someone who's little more than a toady. When he first arrives in camp, Jarry proceeds to act like he's untouchable but ends up the target of an angry mob.
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[[folder:Mr. Lee]]
!!Mr. Lee
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->'''Played By:''' Philip Moon

The leader of a San Francisco [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs tong]] allied to the Hearst organization, which he provides with [[ChineseLabourer Chinese labourers]] and [[DisposableSexWorker cheap prostitutes]]. His attempt to take over Deadwood's Asian community in the second season puts him in conflict with Mr Wu.
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* SlashedThroat: Performs it three times in "Something very expensive".

%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

%%* BeardOfEvil

%%* HiddenDepths

%%* WickedCultured

%%* FatBastard

%%* DirtyCoward

%%* ObstructiveBureaucrat

%%* {{Slimeball}}
* SmugSnake: Jarry has a hugely inflated opinion of himself for someone who's little more than a toady.

%%* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny

%%* InscrutableOriental

* Fiction500: Reality 5, in fact.

* MoralityPet: Subverted. He seems to treat Aunt Lou kindly, but the reality is that he has no deeper concern for her feelings and his behaviour toward her is often condescending. Aunt Lou, while playing at being a 'mammy' to placate him, utterly hates him after having spent her entire life witnessing his brutality and being forced to listen to his self-obsessed monologues.

* ItsAllAboutMe: George Hearst cares mostly about George Hearst.

* MoralityPet: He treats Aunt Lou kindly, but it's ultimately subverted. She ''hates'' the man, and Hearst has no deeper concern for her feelings.

%%* AlasPoorVillain

%%* PsychoForHire

%%* SoftspokenSadist

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: In Wolcott's own words, as he studies rocks, the earth tells him that sin does not exist.

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%%* ApronMatron

%%* BadassLongcoat
%%* BadBoss

%%* TheQuietOne

* BigBad: Of season three.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Seems genuinely distraught when [[spoiler:Captain Turner is killed,]] although he may have simply taken it as a grievious insult.

* KickTheDog: Constantly. Killing his miners, having [[spoiler:Al's finger cut off]], threatening to rape Alma and having [[spoiler:Ellsworth killed]].

* TheManBehindTheMan: Hearst is an ominous presence all through the second season but doesn't appear until right near the end.

-->'''Hearst:''' Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

%%* {{Badass}}

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Right before his death.]]
%%* PsychoForHire
%%* TheQuietOne

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Jarry seems to be heading the same way as Hearst, escaping Deadwood unscathed. A subversion is implied when he seems to allude to being in some trouble with the law for defrauding the county.]]

[[folder:Jarry]]
!!Hugo Jarry
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Had you vision as well as sight, you would recognize within me not only a man, but an institution and the future as well."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/StephenTobolowsky

A bottomlessly corrupt high comissioner whose two goals are to ensure that Deadwood is annexed to the territory of Dakota and that Hearst's agenda is fulfilled, in no particular order.

* CityMouse: Jarry is from the big city, and is acquainted with ruthlessness but not the raw aggression of Deadwood.
%%* DirtyCoward
%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a smug, condescending jackass.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Jarry seems to be heading the same way as Hearst, escaping Deadwood unscathed. A subversion is implied when he seems to allude to being in some trouble with the law for defrauding the county.]]
* ProfessionalButtKisser: To the point where Hearst is prompted to ask him, 'Do you want to fuck me?'. Of course, it was due to a metaphorical mix-up involving Socrates, but then Jarry launches into a little monologue about how if he ''were'' courting Hearst, he'd be great at it.
%%* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Unlike Merrick, he uses this as a weapon in his written documents to fool others.
%%* SleazyPolitician
%%* {{Slimeball}}
* SmugSnake: Jarry has a hugely inflated opinion of himself for someone who's little more than a toady.

[[folder:Mr. Lee]]
!!Mr. Lee
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I am a civilized person."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Philip Moon

The leader of a San Francisco [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs tong]] allied to the Hearst organization, which he provides with [[ChineseLabourer Chinese labourers]] and [[DisposableSexWorker cheap prostitutes]]. His attempt to take over Deadwood's Asian community in the second season puts him in conflict with Mr Wu.

%%* BadassLongcoat
%%* BadBoss
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: For him, it's cheaper to bring new prostitutes than to give medical treatment or even food to the ones he already has.
%%* InscrutableOriental
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He rarely speaks with white characters, leading them to assume that he speaks little to no English. He is actually completely fluent in it.
%%* TheQuietOne
* TheRival: To Mr Wu.
%%* RuthlessForeignGangsters
* TheStoner: [[spoiler:Wu kills him while he's out of his head on opium.]]

[[folder:Captain Turner]]
!!Captain Joe Turner
->'''Played By:''' Alan Graf

George Hearst's large and imposing right hand man.

%%* {{Badass}}
* TheDragon: For George Hearst.
%%* CorporateSamurai
* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:With Dan Dority, which he loses.]]
%%* FatBastard
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:He and Dan Dority exchange savage blows in a downright vicious fight in Season 3, a fight which he ultimately loses.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Right before his death.]]
%%* PsychoForHire
%%* TheQuietOne

[[folder:Aunt Lou]]
!!'Aunt' Lou Marchbanks
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->'''Played By:''' Cleo King

A former slave, currently serving as Hearst's cook. She takes over the Grand Hotel kitchen after Hearst buys the building and makes friendship with Richardson.

%%* ApronMatron
* GenreSavvy: She knows her boss is not a good person and warns Odell about such.
* HiddenDepths: Her 'happy mammy' act masks a highly intelligent and savvy survivor.
* NonIndicativeName: Lampshaded when Alma wrongly assumes that she is Hearst's real aunt.
* [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Mammy]]: She acts very much like a {{Mammy}}, 'happy slave' or MagicalNegro for Hearst. In reality, she's very perceptive and hates Hearst just as much as anyone else.
%%* SassyBlackWoman
* SupremeChef: Her cooking is good enough to endear her to Hearst.

[[folder:George Hearst]]

->''"Gold confers power. Power comes to any man who has the color."''

[[folder:Francis Wolcott]]

[[folder:Hugo Jarry]]

%%* SmugSnake

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* TheDragon: To Hearst.

* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:With Dan.]]

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Has a vicious fight with Dan in the third season. He loses.]]

[[folder:Aunt Lou Marchbanks]]

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%%* CityMouse

%%* {{Jerkass}}
* ProfessionalButtKisser: To the point where Hearst is prompted to ask him, 'Do you want to fuck me?'. Of course, it was due to a metaphorical mix-up involving Socrates, but then Jarry launches into a little monologue about how if he WERE courting him, he'd be great at it.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

* SoftspokenSadist

* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain]]

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: After being fired by Hearst.]]

* HiddenDepths
* PetTheDog: Briefly shows concern for the health of [[spoiler:William Bullock]], though Tolliver is quick to cut this moment short.
* PsychoForHire

* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny

* WickedCultured
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

->'''Played By:''' StephenTobolowsky

* CityMouse
* DirtyCoward
* {{Jerkass}}

* ObstructiveBureaucrat

* SleazyPolitician
* {{Slimeball}}
* SmugSnake

[[folder:Mr Lee]]
!!Mr Lee

* BadassLongcoat
* BadBoss

* InscrutableOriental

* TheQuietOne

* RuthlessForeignGangsters
* TheStoner: [[spoiler:Wu kills him]] while smoking opium.

* TheBrute[=/=]TheDragon: To Hearst.
* CorporateSamurai
* [[spoiler:DuelToTheDeath: With Dan.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Has a vicious fight with Dan in the third season. [[spoiler: [[DuelToTheDeath He loses]].]]
* [[spoiler:EyeScream: Right before his death.]]
* PsychoForHire

* ApronMatron

* SassyBlackWoman
* SupremeChef

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* TheBrute / TheDragon: To Hearst.

!The Heart Company

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Seems genuinely distraught when [[spoiler:Captain Turner is killed.]]
* EvilOldFolks

* ItsAllAboutMe: Hearst cares for nobody who isn't George Hearst.

* LivingLegend

* [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Ruthless Outsider Gangster]]

* AlasPoorVillain

* AxCrazy

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: After George Hearst fires him, Wolcott is briefly seen trying and failing to enjoy the jubilant atmosphere of Alma's wedding to Ellsworth. This really seems to hammer home Wolcott's total alienation from the rest of mankind, and the next time we see him he has committed suicide.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]
* HatesBeingTouched

* PetTheDog: Briefly shows concern for the health of [[spoiler: William Bullock]], though Tolliver is quick to cut this moment short.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections
* SerialKiller

** In another possible lampshade, Wolcott purchases the last letter written by Wild Bill Hickock, who was killed by Dillahunt's previous role.

* WickedCultured

[[folder: George Hearst and Employees]]

* BadBoss
* BigBad

* TheBully
* CrackOhMyBack
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DisproportionateRetribution
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Seems genuinely distraught when [[spoiler: Captain Turner is killed]]

* FauxAffablyEvil

* ItsAllAboutMe
* KarmaHoudini
* KickTheDog: Constantly.

* RichBitch

* SelfMadeMan: Founder of the Hearst dinasty.
* TheSociopath
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* SmugSnake

* TheStoner: [[spoiler: Wu kills him]] while smoking opium.

* [[spoiler:DuelToTheDeath]]

* GenreSavvy: She knows her boss is not a good person.