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* MisaimedFandom: Inverted. The Beast recommends Jacob one of his books, ''The Human Animal'' by Desmond Morris. Just in case any genuine white supremacist who was rooting for the Aryan Brotherhood tried to find a copy assuming it to be a celebration of racism, the book actually argues ''against'' that and makes the case that genetic differences between human lineages are negligible. It's also a very subtle hint that the Beast might be a StrawHypocrite.
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* OneSceneWonder: Bottles is a fairly minor character but a very memorable one.
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: It's a tragedy about how prison destroys a man's soul... But the cinematography is beautiful, the fights are thrilling, the score is haunting, and the protagonist changes from a bland, vanilla finance bro to a terrifying badass.
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* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was a successful stockbroker with a wife and son who was sent to a maximum security prison after getting his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, Jacob spends years ascending the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of the gang's officers. Once released from prison, on the orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, then killing, a police informant. Jacob sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending to go back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a racist prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future to protect his family.

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* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was once a successful stockbroker FamilyMan with a wife and son promising career who was sent to a maximum security prison is incarcerated after getting killing his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. accent. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, for protection, Jacob spends years ascending a decade climbing the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of organization. Their leader, the gang's officers. Once released from prison, on the Beast, orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees Jake to oversee a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying Cartel once he's out of prison by threatening his family. Jacob stays several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, exposes, then killing, kills, a police informant. Jacob [[FailureGambit sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending accord]] in order to go be sent back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a the Beast. Jacob does not share the racist prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies ideology of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future fellow gang members, instead being driven by a desire to protect himself and his family.loved ones.
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* CompleteMonster: "[[ABeastInNameAndNature The Beast]]", real name [[BigBad Jerry Manning]], is the leader of [[ThoseWackyNazis the Aryan Brotherhood]] in an unnamed Californian prison, engaged in drug smuggling and murder among several other crimes. Ordering one of his lieutenants, Redwood, to bloodily murder one of the guards as a display of his power, an act for which Redwood is sent to DeathRow, the Beast promotes Jacob "Money" Harlon to take his place. Ordering Jacob to oversee the [[ArmsDealer selling of military-grade weaponry]] to the Sonora Cartel on the outside, Jacob instead sabotages the deal so he can go back to prison to confront him. The Beast orders Jacob's family to be killed, then fights Jacob himself to the death without hesitation.
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* MisaimedFandom: Inverted. The Beast recommends Jacob one of his books, ''The Human Animal'' by Desmond Morris. Just in case any genuine white supremacist who was rooting for the Aryan Brotherhood tried to find a copy assuming it to be a celebration of racism, the book actually argues ''against'' that and makes the case that genetic differences between human lineages are negligible. It's also a very subtle hint that the Beast might be a StrawHypocrite.
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* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was a successful stockbroker with a wife and son who was sent to a maximum security prison after getting his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, Jacob spends years ascending the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of the gang's officers. Once released from prison on the orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, then killing, a police informant. Jacob sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending to go back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a racist prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future to protect his family.

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* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was a successful stockbroker with a wife and son who was sent to a maximum security prison after getting his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, Jacob spends years ascending the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of the gang's officers. Once released from prison prison, on the orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, then killing, a police informant. Jacob sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending to go back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a racist prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future to protect his family.
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* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was a succesful stockbroker with a wife and son who was sent to a maximum security prison after getting his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, Jacob spends years ascending the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of the gang's officers. Once released from prison, on the orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, then killing, a police informant. Jacob sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending to go back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a skinhead prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future to protect his family.

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* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was a succesful successful stockbroker with a wife and son who was sent to a maximum security prison after getting his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, Jacob spends years ascending the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of the gang's officers. Once released from prison, prison on the orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, then killing, a police informant. Jacob sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending to go back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a skinhead racist prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future to protect his family.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: [[spoiler:Jacob engineers his own reincarceration so he can personally assassinate the Beast to prevent any retaliation against his wife and son.]]
-->'''Jacob:''' [[spoiler:No one hurts my family.]]

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* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was a succesful stockbroker with a wife and son who was sent to a maximum security prison after getting his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, Jacob spends years ascending the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of the gang's officers. Once released from prison, on the orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, then killing, a police informant. Jacob sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending to go back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a skinhead prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future to protect his family.

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* IronWoobie: Jacob sees his entire life destroyed in front of him after he gets sentenced to prison and falls deep into the criminal world to defend himself in the process, but he takes it like a ''man''. Never once does he truly complain as he sacrifices himself for his family.
* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was a succesful stockbroker with a wife and son who was sent to a maximum security prison after getting his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, Jacob spends years ascending the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of the gang's officers. Once released from prison, on the orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, then killing, a police informant. Jacob sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending to go back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a skinhead prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future to protect his family.family.
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* MagnificentBastard: Jacob "Money" Harlon was a succesful stockbroker with a wife and son who was sent to a maximum security prison after getting his best friend killed in a drunk driving accident. Joining the Aryan Brotherhood to survive, Jacob spends years ascending the ranks of the organization, graduating from a low-level drug mule to a hitman, and finally one of the gang's officers. Once released from prison, on the orders of Jerry "The Beast" Manning under threat of harming his family, Jacob oversees a major weapons deal with the Sonora Cartel, staying several steps ahead of the authorities attempting to track him down and exposing, then killing, a police informant. Jacob sabotages the deal on his own accord, intending to go back to prison to confront the Beast and kill and replace him. Despite being a member of a skinhead prison gang, Jacob never displays any racist tendencies of his own, and ultimately sacrifices his entire future to protect his family.

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