Character page for the 2002 video game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It has been updated with tropes pertaining to the 2020 HD remake, Mafia: The Definitive Edition.
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Tommy
Thomas "Tommy" Angelo
"The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life might not get anything at all."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by: Marek Vašut (Czech)
(Original): Michael Sorvino (English), José Luccioni (French), Alexander Morozov (Russian)
(Remake): Andrew Bongiorno (English), Alexis Ballesteros (French), Yuri Titov (Russian)
The main protagonist. A taxi driver during The Great Depression, Tommy came to work for Don Salieri's gang after Paulie and Sam bumped into him during a chase. He would become Salieri's top enforcer and driver, but his moral compass would eventually catch up with him.
- The Ace: In the remake, it's mentioned that Tommy is not only the best driver but also the best shooter amongst Salieri's crew. However, he's still a self-taught goon and not a trained soldier like Lincoln or Vito, which shows in gameplay as his melee combat and gunplay are noticeably less smooth and precise than in Mafia 2 or Mafia 3.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the original, he takes his eight year imprisonment at the end of the game in stride. In the remake, he is seen screaming in rage as he struggles to cope, although he does get better.
- Adaptational Jerkass: He's a bit less affable in the remake.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: There is one moment where Tommy is less of a jerk in the Definitive Edition compared to the original, where he attempts to assassinate Sergio Morello Jr. with a carbomb, only to have it wind up killing a woman that was presumably Sergio's mistress. In the original game, he makes a crass joke of her being "one hot dame", but in the remake he's utterly horrified at getting an innocent woman killed.
- Adaptational Villainy: He's more violent and snarky in the Definitive Edition. For example, rather than simply heading to Salieri's bar hoping for protection, the remake has him forgo monetary compensation in favor of a chance to get back at the Morello family for wronging him. He's also less willing to spare people, not feeling any satisfaction in letting them go when he does.
- Ambidextrous Sprite: In the Definitive Edition, due to taking a few animations from Lincoln Clay, if the player switches the shoulder view while aiming a gun, Tommy will change the hand it’s in, so despite not having much training, apparently he can shoot both right and left handed.
- Anti-Villain: Tommy clearly isn't bloodthirsty, yet he still commits a pretty considerable number of murders. Some victims deserve it, some are just in the way of Salieri's plans. He does show mercy on several occasions though, and he truly cares for his friends and family, which in the end is the reason he leaves the Mafia and testifies against his former partners. However, this is also the reason he gets killed in the end.Tommy: You know, the world isn't run by the laws written on paper. It's run by people. Some according to laws, others not. It depends on each individual how his world will be, how he makes it. And you also need a whole lot of luck, so that somebody else doesn't make your life hell. And it ain't as simple as they tell you in grade school. But it is good to have strong values and to maintain them. In marriage, in crime, in war, always and everywhere. I messed up. So did Paulie and Sam. We wanted a better life, but in the end we were a lot worse off than most other people.
- Badass Driver: A very good driver, who even wins a race without any sort of qualification past "borrowing" a race car the night before. Lincoln and Vito were great fighters who happened to be great drivers, Tommy's a great driver who happens to be a great fighter.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: He's usually dressed in a black suit, when he is not wearing trenchcoats or his taxi driver garb.
- Being Evil Sucks: A lesson that Tommy learns over the course of the game. There are people that he's not willing to kill, struggling to come to terms with all the death even in the remake, he has to look over his shoulder more often than most people, and he eventually feels mistreated by Salieri when he's secretly tasked with hauling diamonds (in the remake, it's heroin) and not given any better cut because the Don is hoarding more of it to himself. His discovery of how the mafioso lifestyle tore Salieri and Morello apart is what confirms this for him.
- Berserk Button: When a badly wounded Sam mentions Paulie's name following the final shootout in the art gallery, Tommy shoots his former friend dead without hesitation.
- Bodyguard Crush: One mission has him escorting Sarah back to her home and beating up street thugs who harass her. He ends up falling in love with her.
- Character Narrator: He tells his story to Norman throughout the game.
- Cool Car: He builds himself quite an impressive collection of 1930s cars in the backyard of Salieri's restaurant, especially some luxury or advanced cars he steals with the help of Lucas Bertone, who tips him on them as a reward for helpful services.
- Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: He didn't start questioning his gangster lifestyle until he had to kill a woman that he previously met. He even seemed more inclined to get into it in the remake.Tommy: When you have no money, you think that a few bucks a month would be enough. Then you realize that it wouldn't be bad to have a nice car. You get a great job in some higher position, but in actuality you are thinking about going higher. Before you know it, you wanna be the President of the United States and you wanna win the war against the Germans.
- The Driver: His first job was as a taxi driver, and the Salieri gang come to appreciate and need his driving talents, to the point of having to drive Don Salieri himself at one point.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: In the remake, he bleeds to death just as Sarah holds him in her arms.
- Dying Alone: In the original, he bleeds to death on his front yard by himself, with none of his family around. Averted in the Definitive Edition, where Sarah, his daughter, and his son-in-law comfort him in his final moments.
- Et Tu, Brute?: He doesn't take it well when Sam reveals his betrayal.
- Face Death with Dignity: In the remake, when Vito and Joe show up to kill him, instead of confusingly answering to his name as he did in the original, he answers to and accepts it knowing that he's about to die for the good of his family.
- Freudian Trio: The sensible Ego to Paulie's Id and Sam's Superego.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: From taxi driver that ran away from two thugs wanting to kill him to an intimidating mafioso that manages to take down an entire crime family.
- Go Out with a Smile: In the Definitive Edition, he briefly smiles just as Joe pulls the trigger on him, having apparently known he was a dead man walking. And while he bleeds out surrounded by his immediate family, he can again be seen giving them one last, assuring smile before dying.
- The Hero Dies: The game ends with Tommy getting killed for testifying against Salieri. To make matters worse, Mafia II shows that its protagonist, Vito Scaletta, and his best friend, Joe Barbaro, are the ones who did the deed.
- Instant Expert: He has never driven a race car before, yet he finds himself forced to win a race, and pulls it off.
- It Gets Easier: Played straight and deconstructed. Tommy gets used to gunning down enemy scum and defying the law for profit, but finds himself reluctant to kill people he feels empathy for. This signs his death warrant in the end.
- Ironic Echo: Before joining the mob: "Better to be poor and alive than rich and dead." After joining the mob: "Better to die young and loaded."
- Meaningful Name: Thomas Angelo from the city of Lost Heaven. He's also named after the Thompson submachine gun, AKA The Tommy Gun.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He's visibly appalled in the remake when his attempt at killing Sergio Morello Jr. with a carbomb winds up killing an innocent woman instead. This stands in stark contrast to the original game, where he cracks wise at her expense.
- Never Say That Again: As Sam is lying on the ground bleeding out in the remake, he weakly reminisces about the good times he and Tommy used to have together, mentioning Paulie, the man he betrayed and murdered, by name. Tommy, who was just beginning to lower his gun, shoots Sam multiple times in the head and chest.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His testimony against Salieri eventually catches up with him and costs him his life.
- Oh, Crap!: He has a massive one at the end of the first mission when he brings Sam and Paulie to Salieri's bar. Sam exits the bar, ominous music begins playing, Sam sticks his hand in his coat pocket, and Tommy prepares to gun it... only for Sam to pay him a hefty sum for his trouble and offering him more pay if he works for the family (while also reminding him not to mention anything that happened to anybody else, even if he has to lie to the taxi company about the extra money and damage to his car).
- Player Character: The only playable character in the whole game.
- The Protagonist: The story is told from his point of view, and he is the game's only Player Character.
- Reformed Criminal: The whole game is basically flashbacks as he tells his story to Norman in 1938 before testifying against Salieri's gang.
- The Reliable One: Tommy becomes this for the Salieri gang, thanks to his driving skills and gunfighting capability. Frank also praises his personality and capabilities, comparing it to Paulie and Sam in Definitive Edition.
- Run for the Border: Tommy and his family initially try to escape Salieri's vengeance by fleeing to Europe, but a certain impending conflict puts the kibosh on that plan, forcing them to go with Witness Protection instead.
- Sanity Slippage: In the remake, after Tommy is sent to jail, he becomes unhinged and violent after spending months in solitary confinement. Fortunately, he is able to compose himself as the days go by.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: On two occasions, he doesn't obey Don Salieri's orders and spares the life of people who broke the omertà (the Mafia's so-called "Law of Silence"). This will come to bite him in the ass later on.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Starts wearing a nice suit once he joins Salieri's ranks.
- The Stool Pigeon: What he's ultimately forced into doing following Sam's failed assassination on him at the Art Gallery: rat out Salieri's and his gang's crimes to Detective Norman, the Lost Heaven Police Department, and the FBI.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: His actor stands 5'11" and Tommy is as good-looking as they come.
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He has a sarcastic streak that comes along with his fair height and handsome face.
- The Taxi: He was a taxi driver before joining the Salieri gang. Some members of the gang continue to refer to him as a "cabbie" even after he officially joins them in the remake.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl:
- He is tasked by Frank to eliminate a prostitute who has been leaking information to Don Morello which have cost Don Salieri money and men. Upon confronting her, he finds out it's Michelle, a friend of Sarah he met at Salieri's bar. Tommy spares her life and tells her to go away and never come back. It's the very first time he disobeys an order from Don Salieri.
- More moments like this come in the Definitive Edition in "You Lucky Bastard", where he accidentally kills a woman with a carbomb, and utterly horrified in the aftermath (compared to the original game, where he cracked wise about her being "one HOT dame"), and prevents Paulie from shooting a waitress Sergio took as a hostage over the guilt he still had from the incident, causing Sergio to initially escape them in the chaos.
Don Salieri
Don Ennio Salieri
"I've decided to give you a shot, Tommy. I like new faces. We're one big family here."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Antonín Molčík (Czech), George DiCenzo (English), Patrice Melennec (French), Alexander Malov (Russian)
(Remake): Marcel Vašinka (Czech), Glenn Taranto (English), Maxim Pinsker (Russian)
The Sicilian-born chief of the Salieri gang, based in the Italian-American district of Lost Heaven, Little Italy. He is at war with Don Morello's gang during the Prohibition.
- Adaptational Jerkass: He is all-around a whole lot less affable from the start in the remake. For example, instead of feeling sorry for Pepe the Restaurant owner and saying that he will send him some money to rebuild his place after the shootout in the original, in the remake he doesn't even acknowledge Pepe, instead being angry about his car being destroyed. Frank even mentions that, despite their long friendship, he's always fully expected Salieri to one day have him killed for one reason or another.
- Adaptational Karma: Downplayed. While the original merely mentioned him getting imprisoned during Tommy's ending narration, in the Definitive Edition, Salieri is shown being imprisoned, having been completely humiliated and lost all of his power and influence in the process.
- Adaptational Villainy: While he was always a bad dude even in the original, the remake shows him to be a much more monstrous character, even if he hides it well. His backstory with his oldest friend is revealed to have been exploitative and brutal, including animal abuse and killing, he shows little regard for the people who suffer because of his actions even when they are innocents or his friends, and he is shown dealing drugs despite an earlier claim that he finds dealing in the harder drugs distasteful.
- Affably Evil:
- He is quite affable with the people he likes, those who are loyal to him or those who live under his "protection". That said, he still is a crime boss, and he's very ruthless.Salieri: Nobody is killing anybody, get it? Just teach them a lesson; Break every bone in their bodies and leave them laying in a pool of their own blood. Make sure those bastards need wheelchairs, little kids will laugh at their busted faces. Let everybody see what happens, when somebody trashes my territory!
- He's somewhat more Faux Affably Evil in the remake, where he's still very charming and fatherly, but is also presented in a somewhat darker and more ruthless and manipulative light.
- He is quite affable with the people he likes, those who are loyal to him or those who live under his "protection". That said, he still is a crime boss, and he's very ruthless.
- Benevolent Boss: He always makes sure the men who work well for him get rewarded. Although by the late 1930s he becomes a subversion when he tricks Tommy and Paulie (and in the remake, Sam) into risking their lives to steal a cache of diamonds (in the remake, it's straight-up drugs) under the pretense of robbing a cigar shipment. Realizing he's being ripped off, Paulie convinces Tommy to rob a bank together. Things rapidly get uglier from there.
- Big Bad: Of the first game, though it is hidden due to being the player's boss.
- Cigar Chomper: In almost every scene he's in, Salieri is either holding or smoking a cigar. The times that he isn't usually mean something has shaken him to the core.
- Cool Car: In the remake, he owns a green-and-black Lassiter V16 Roadster (based on the real life Cadillac V-16 Model 70 Roadster), a flashy automobile for the time which looks more like a boat on wheels. The car is wrecked in the shootout at Pepe's Restaurant.
- The Don: One out of the two major Italian-American crime lords of Lost Heaven, the other being Morello.
- Drugs Are Bad: He warns Tommy about staying away from "dope fiends in the neighborhood" in the remake. He turns out to be in drug dealing himself by the end. Not telling any of his enforcers that they risk getting life sentences for transporting heroin upsets them, and said omission means he's ripping all of them off.
- Et Tu, Brute?: When Frank plans on turning the family's books over to the police and tries to rat out the family, Salieri is distraught.
- Evil Is Petty: Primarily in the remake. While Salieri was always a bad, proud man in the original he was usually charming and immaculately practical, with his brutality and ruthlessness being directed. The remake shows him to be much less gracious and cruel, including literally trying to drown his prizewinning dog during his childhood after she lost a race... because she was pregnant, something a utilitarian dog owner would be grateful for.note
- Hypocrite:
- Warns Tommy about staying away from drug dealers in town in the remake, only to later secretly enter the drug business himself.
- Throughout the remake, he repeatedly stresses the importance of loyalty to one's boss above all else to Tommy, and is shown to take the betrayals of Frank and Carlo very personally; as Detective Norman later tells Tommy, Salieri's old boss, Felice Peppone, drowned under mysterious circumstances during a vacation in the countryside, conveniently allowing his two most trusted lieutenants — Salieri and Morello — to divvy up his empire. While talking with Sergio after Carlo's death, Morello states outright that they've been at war "since we killed Peppone", confirming it was murder.
- I Did What I Had to Do: What he says after ordering Frank's death, even though he misses having conversations with him.Salieri: More than twenty years I've known Frank. All I got, I got with him. But Frank broke the Omerta. I don't know why, but he must have his reasons. And we've got our own reasons to rub him out and get those books back. Otherwise, we'll do time. And plenty of it.
Tommy: Whatever you want, boss. If there ain't no other way...
Salieri: There isn't! - Kick the Dog: Seen in the Definitive Edition.
- Frank tells a story of how, in their youth, they treated a beloved dog that won them prizes at races. When she failed Salieri once (slowing down because she was pregnant), Salieri tried to drown the dog, forcing Frank to intervene. Salieri then adds that he shot her later. Frank even mentions that, despite their friendship, he's always fully expected Salieri to have him killed one day for one reason or another.
- Despite warning about dope fiends earlier, he starts trafficking it himself near the end. Additionally, he hides this fact so that his men are more willing to risk getting caught, knowing that they would object to the serious charges they'd face if they were aware of what they were transporting and the fact that Salieri doesn't give them a nickel of the profits he's making on selling it.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: He is a mafia Don who orders to kill some people, intimidates others and heads illegal businesses. However, he's far from the Morello brothers' sadistic, cruel and Hair-Trigger Temper tendencies.
- Manipulative Bastard: The remake shows that he's not above micro-managing his men's lives if he feels it necessary; when he sits down for dinner with Tommy, he congratulates him on giving up alcohol, then reveals that even though Sarah wanted him to stop as well, Salieri was the one who pressured her to intervene, because drinking could've made him a less valuable employee. Tommy is taken aback by the casual way he admits it, but says nothing.
- Meet the New Boss:
- Tommy and Paulie — and, in the remake, Sam — have this realization when they discover that Salieri's been lying to them about the true nature of the cigar shipment robbery (in the original, the cigars are a cover for smuggled diamonds; in the remake, he cooks up the diamond smuggling story to conceal his forays into drug dealing). Realizing he's been using them, Tommy and Paulie pull off a bank job to break away, but Sam throws them under the bus to save his own hide.
- Sam in the remake generally seems more aware of how vindictive Salieri really is and will be once he gains true power, foreshadowing how this version of the character obeys him partially out of fear. When Paulie muses about what the Don's going to do once Morello's dead, Sam replies, "I think he's going to start wearing a nice white suit [himself]".
- Pet the Dog: In the original. If ordering the death of someone who betrayed him results in a widow and an orphan, he will provide financial help to them. He also wants to pay for the damage Morello's men caused to Pepe's restaurant.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: Carries a .357 magnum revolver as his personal firearm, as seen during Morello's attempted hit on him in "Bon Appetit". Averted in the remake, where he uses a shotgun already at the restaurant instead.
- The Rival: There is a Mob War between him and Morello for supremacy in Lost Heaven.
- The Unfought: Tommy doesn't gun him down after Sam's death, instead testifying against him and the organization.
- We Used to Be Friends:
- He was Don Peppone's caporegime originally, and the other caporegime was none other than Morello himself, as Tommy finds out when looking at an old photo. The Peppone family split up between Salieri's followers and Morello's followers after its Don's death, degenerating into a Mob War. After Tom, Paulie, and Sam kill Morello, Salieri has a toast while looking at the picture of them when they were under Don Peppone; despite everything, deep down, Salieri's sad to see his old friend go.
Salieri: See you on the other side, Marcu.- Same goes for him and Tommy, with him being the toxic friend-boss but one who tried to keep his employees happy. Then after Tommy betrayed him in response to Salieri's increasing hypocrisy, he became vindictive enough to indirectly hire two dealers to murder him after they both served time in prison (albeit not equal sentences) and Tommy went on with his life.
- You Have Failed Me: If anyone in his gang breaks the Law of Silence
or betrays him in any way, he will have said person killed.
Paulie
Paulie Lombardo
"Okay, I like it, nice and cool. Everything'll be hunky-dory."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by: Petr Rychlý (Czech)
(Original): William DeMeo (English), Alexandre Donders (French), Oleg Shcherbinin (Russian)
(Remake): Jeremy Luke (English), Maxim Dakhnenko (Russian)
One of Don Salieri's top enforcers, with Sam.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears a grey suit most of the time.
- Bank Robbery: He grows tired of not being paid satisfyingly by Don Salieri and masterminds a bank heist towards the climax of the game, and brings Tommy along. It ends up causing his demise, as he told Sam about it, not knowing Sam's true nature.
- Berserk Button: In the remake, Ralph's joke really gets under his skin, and he quickly switches from an annoying bully to hostile and threatening. As becomes clear throughout the game (see Dumb Muscle below), Ralphie is basically the lowest you can get in the organization, and Paulie is troubled by how little his pain, effort and years of service have meant to the Don, as he's barely advanced in the ranks; hearing someone he considers a loser indirectly compare themselves to him just reminds him of his own inadequacy.
- Boisterous Bruiser: The most brash mafiosi of Salieri's gang, and he is the most prone to jokingly pick on Tommy at times.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He had a rough youth in the streets until he started to work for the Salieri gang.
- Didn't Think This Through: Talking about his Bank Robbery plan to Sam was not a good idea.
- Dumb Muscle: Seen in both the original and remake, and explicitly stated by Frank in the latter. Paulie isn't stupid per se, but he is hotheaded, not terribly bright, and lacking in common sense; Frank notes he's good in a fight, but his lack of intelligence means he'll never be anything more than an enforcer, which ironically enough makes him even with Ralph, who Paulie often bullies.
- Expy: In the original game, Paulie seems very much based on Joe Pesci's performances in various gangster films such as Casino and Goodfellas. Averted in the remake, which tries to him give more of an original identity.
- Feeling Their Age: By the end of the game in the remake, after the dope smuggling, Paulie starts to reflect on his life as a gangster since he was a teenager. He's realized that the criminal life is starting to exhaust him both physically and mentally. If nothing changes and he keeps walking the same path he has for the last 20 years, he's going to be: dodging bullets with dulled reflexes; hightailing from the police at speeds he won't be able to take; smuggling contraband he can't lift; and listening to the same stories about Salieri's "Good Old Days" until he dies. And when that happens, it'll mean nothing. He's nearly 40 years old, he has no wife and no kids, his rap sheet is at least a mile long, and he's in the same position he was when he first joined the Salieri Family. He was a nobody before he joined The Family, he was barely a somebody when he was a member and he'll be a nobody again when he dies. The bank heist was his only way out.
- Freudian Trio: The rash Id to Tommy's Superego and Sam's Ego.
- Horrible Housing: There's a reason why Paulie constantly complains about he suit getting ruined and not wanting to return home after the race. Paulie lives in a dingy, depressing, colourless apartment. His life is lonely and he only surrounds himself with the barest of necessities; his suits are the most expensive things he owns and thus the only things he takes pride in.
- Hot-Blooded: He's quite an energetic, brash and hot-tempered guy.
- Ink-Suit Actor: He pretty much has his voice actor Jeremy Luke's face in the remake.
- Killed Offscreen: He's murdered by Sam right before the final mission, and Tommy arrives on the scene to discover his dead body.
- Limited Wardrobe: He always wears the same grey suit. The remake has him in a vivid purple suit instead.
- Mood-Swinger: As a result of growing up on the streets.
- Only Known By His Nickname: His only known name is "Paulie". Definitive Edition gives him the last name "Lombardo."
- Pragmatic Villainy: In the remake, he enacts his plan to rob a bank after the crew discover that they were being used to smuggle black tar heroin. Not necessarily because he objects to the business, but because the repercussions that they could've faced were severe and deliberately hidden from them by Salieri, causing a Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal.
- Rebellious Spirit:
- Especially after finding out Salieri sent him and Tommy on a very dangerous mission to steal diamonds hidden in cigar boxes and not just cigars. He wants to change his boring post-Prohibition routine by committing a Bank Robbery with Tommy, which is against the gang's rules.Paulie: Salieri ain't a bad boss, but once in a while I'd like to make some decent dough on the side, not some tiny share.
- This gets altered slightly in the Definitive Edition, with Paulie implicitly understanding he's never going to have much of a chance for advancement in the organization; he sees his idle schemes and plans as a way to potentially impress Salieri and finally get into the inner circle, even if he has to go behind the Don's back to do it, and is growing frustrated over time as he realizes just how impossible it'd be to pull off without getting himself killed (as Sam tells him, if he jeopardized the operation, he'd get put in the ground "right next to Morello"). After the final betrayal of learning they could've gone away for life for unwittingly smuggling heroin, Paulie — who reveals to Tommy he's near suicidal at this point after a decade as the Don's soldato — finally does the bank job as a last-ditch effort to square away money for his own retirement, Salieri be damned.
- Especially after finding out Salieri sent him and Tommy on a very dangerous mission to steal diamonds hidden in cigar boxes and not just cigars. He wants to change his boring post-Prohibition routine by committing a Bank Robbery with Tommy, which is against the gang's rules.
- True Companions: His friendship with Tommy can be considered as this, while Sam is more distant.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Reacts this way if Tommy kills the delivery driver during the diamond heist.Paulie: Tom! That wasn't necessary!
Sam
Sam Trapani
"Mr. Salieri doesn't forget about friends who have helped him out."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by: Luděk Čtvrtlík (Czech)
(Original): Matt Servitto (English), Gilles Marino (French), Boris Repetur (Russian)
(Remake): Don DiPetta (English), Sergey Radchenko (Russian)
The other top enforcer of Don Salieri, with Paulie.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In the Definitive edition anyway. Compared to his original appearance, he is far more handsome and looks more youthful. He also is slightly more skinnier as his face has less fat than before.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Sam shows much more confidence and machismo in the remake compared to the original game, and comes across more like he's keeping Paulie and Tommy in line rather than being their quiet friend.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed, but compared to the original game where his last words are ranting about how "Friendship ain't worth shit!", in the remake it's him sadly reminiscing about a moment where he, Tommy and Paulie were still friends, before being uncermoniously Killed Mid-Sentence by Tommy.
- Adaptational Wimp: He's much less Made of Iron in the remake when you fight him as the Final Boss, but makes up for it by being a Flunky Boss. Downplayed, in that he still visibly takes a shot to the gut in a cutscene, and is still standing before Tommy finally puts him down, making him this only by the relative standards of none of the other characters being traditional "boss fights".
- Alas, Poor Villain: Unlike his version from the original game, Sam's betrayal and death are painted in a much more sympathetic light in the remake. While he kills Paulie and tries to do the same to Tom under Salieri's orders, Tom points out he's only doing it because he's scared of getting killed too, and when Sam gives him a "goodbye" before the last shootout, Sam's voice gets shaky as if he's trying not to cry. However, after Tommy mortally wounds him, Sam tries to remember in a very ironic manner, a fun moment they had together with Paulie, revealing that he possibly wasn't being sincere.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: The most well-dressed mafiosi of Salieri's gang. In the original, he always wears a black tuxedo with a light blue shirt and a dark blue bowtie.
- Butt-Monkey: He often gets captured and beaten / tortured, and often ends up in need of medical care when he's involved in a mission.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Is good enough with cars that he probably could have earned an honest living that way if he put forth the effort.Tommy: Why ain't you a mechanic, Sam?Sam: That work's too dirty for me.
- Dirty Coward: Tommy calls him out as this at the end for betraying his friends to stay in good graces with with Salieri.
- False Friend:
- Doesn't hesitate to kill Paulie and lure Tommy into a trap to do the same, all out of his Undying Loyalty to Don Salieri. His Last Words are "Friendship ain't worth shit...", appropriately.
- Played with in the remake. He still betrays the two to get the bank money and to look good for Salieri, but it's clear that he's doing it mostly because he's scared of Salieri's wrath and in his final moments, he does reminisce - although in a very sarcastic tone - about his friendship with Tommy and Paulie. Even before his betrayal, he did have genuinely amiable conversations with the two.
- Final Boss: The last mission is Tommy surviving Sam and Salieri's betrayal, climaxing in a gunfight with Sam.
- Freudian Trio: The reserved Ego to Paulie's Id and Tommy's Superego.
- Glass Cannon: In the remake, when finally cornered he's only slightly tougher than a regular Mook and can only survive 1 or 2 more bullets than a normal enemy, but tosses powerful hand grenades in between steadily spraying you with his tommy gun.
- Hypocrite: Several times in the remake:
- He tries to beg for his life by reasoning that he can lie about Tommy's death to Salieri while he goes into hiding if Tommy spares him. This is after he admonished Tommy for doing the same to Frank and Michelle.
- He also blames Tommy for letting Michelle live despite asking him to spare her.
- Unlike the original game, where he was always aware of Salieri's ulterior motives in the cigar shipment robbery, in the remake he's just as shocked as Tommy and Paulie when he discovers that they've been tricked. But he ultimately decides to throw in his lot with Salieri anyway.
- It Gets Easier: In the remake, Sam gives one of these to Tommy at the end of "The Saint and The Sinner" mission.Tommy: Thanks again Sam, for helping me out back there. I thought my time was up.
Sam: It's not anything you wouldn't do for me.
Tommy: I know, but when you come that close to biting it... Christ. It's some thing.
Sam: Don't need to tell me about that. Just don't think about it. Best lesson I could ever teach you: don't think about anything. - Limited Wardrobe: He always wears a black tuxedo, a blue shirt and a blue bowtie. Averted in the remake where he has more outfits.
- Made of Iron: He is severely wounded several times throughout the game but always manages to survive. In the original game, he can sustain a whole Thompson gun magazine (50 bullets) unloaded into him before the end cinematic, and he's still alive until Tommy delivers him the Coup de Grâce with his Colt M1911. It usually takes less than 10 Thompson bullets to kill anyone else.
- Never My Fault: In the remake, he tries to emphasize and justify his loyalty, stating that Paulie "got himself killed" for the robbery and that Tommy is the most to blame for sparing Michelle even though he asked him to do so in the first place, since Tommy's the one who left her alive.
- No Sense of Humor: Unlike Paulie, he never jokes or even smiles. He's more affable in the game's remake, though not by much.
- Only Known By His Nickname: Like Paulie, he has only one known name, "Sam." He's given a last name, "Trapani," in Definitive Edition.
- Pet the Dog: In the remake, he orders his goons not to make Tommy suffer in honor of their friendship.
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: In the original, his dialogue during the final showdown with Tommy lives and breathes this.Tommy: I guess honor's out of the picture?
Sam: Honor's meaningless! This is business and you've broken its unwritten rules many times over, Tom. Maybe I feel some pity, but that's outta place in business. - The Stoic:
- He's a quiet and reserved man of few words, and tends to take the various injuries he receives over the course of the game in stride. At least until the last level and final boss fight, at which point he suddenly turns into a monologuing Bond villain.
- Averted in the remake, where he's more talkative and macho.
- Undying Loyalty: To Don Salieri. He ends up choosing his loyalty to the Don over his friendship with Paulie and Tommy, killing the former and trapping the latter to do the same. In the original game, he was also fully aware of Salieri's ulterior motives for the cigar robbery, and defends the Don for lying about it.Sam: You can't do what you think is right because you don't know nothing. You don't grasp the effects of your actions. The Don is the thinker.Tommy: You were never a great thinker, so you probably need him. That's not how I feel. I can think for myself.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Tommy saves his life more than once, yet he shows no remorse when he lures Tommy into a trap to kill him on Salieri's orders. In the remake, this extends to Tommy's decision to spare Michelle, which was done at Sam's behest.Sam: I had to decide whose side I was on and sorry, but it would be suicidal to stand on your side. I can live with murder, though.
- Walking Spoiler: He betrays you towards the end and is the game's Final Boss.
Frank
Frank Colletti
"A policeman will murder to uphold the law, you enforce our laws. It's the same thing, we're just on the other side of the fence."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by: Dalimil Klapka (Czech)
(Original): Dan Grimaldi (English), Philippe Dumond (French), Alexey Kolgan (Russian)
(Remake): Steven J. Oliver (English), Dmitry Yachevsky (Russian)
Don Salieri's old friend and his gang's consigliere.
- All for Nothing: Tommy's decision to spare Frank's life and allow him to escape with his family to Europe turns out to be for nothing in the end, as it's revealed he was eventually found by a family associate there and Salieri sent a hit squad to have him (and his wife and daughter too, in the remake) murdered.
- The Consigliere: Don Salieri's trusted advisor, at least until the day he found himself forced to betray the gang.
- Flaw Exploitation: Mentioned to possess a love of racing dogs in the remake, having had a Cirneco dell'Etna back in Sicily that he was fiercely protective of, even going so far as to break Salieri's nose when he tried to drown her for getting pregnant. When he gets spotted at a dog track after settling in Europe, Salieri's men there use the opportunity to hunt him down and kill him and his family.
- He Knows Too Much: Tommy is tasked by Salieri to kill Frank before he can testify against the gang.
- I Have Your Wife: The real reason why he betrays Salieri.Tommy: You didn't have to sell us out!Frank: They came for me and I had to surrender. They have my wife and daughter, Tom. And if I don't give them the books, they'll kill them. Before we used to solve things like men. You, Paulie or Sam would get them back, but I can't take that risk this time. I don't want to lose them, Tom, I can't live without them. They told me if I did what they wanted they'd release them and send us to Europe, where we'd start again.
- Killed Offscreen: It is revealed by Sam to Tommy in his last moments that Frank was eventually found by a family associate over in Europe and the Don sent a hit squad to have him murdered. In the remake, it's also implied that Frank's wife and daughter were killed along with him.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In the original game he only betrays Salieri because Morello/The FBI kidnapped and threatened to hurt his family. In the remake, Frank additionally mentions that he's always expected Salieri to eventually have a reason to have him killed, and he eventually got tired of the stress.
- Number Two: His position in the hierarchy of Don Salieri's gang, until his betrayal.
- Old Friend: He and Salieri know each other for 20 years at least. Sam even says Frank is the only true friend Salieri ever had.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Salieri got him in the end. Even worse in the remake, where it's implied the Don had his entire family wiped out.
- Unperson: Salieri takes Frank turning state's evidence so badly in the remake that after he's assumed to be dead, Tommy claims that the Don never said his name or acknowledged that Frank ever existed. The closest he gets is a single line in "Bon Appetit" where he admits that "since... what happened, happened", he's been more directly involved with his men without some "other guy" getting in the way, indicating he doesn't want or trust another consigliere to handle business.
- Witness Protection: Tommy has to fight or sneak through a number of federal police mooks before he can reach Frank as he was going to take a plane for Europe.
Vincenzo
Vincenzo Ricci
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Miroslav Saic (Czech), John Tormey (English), Lorenzo Pancino (French), Alexey Kolgan (Russian)
(Remake): Radovan Vaculík (Czech), Paul Tassone (English)
The Salieri family's armourer and weapons specialist.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In addition to being younger in Definitive Edition, Vincenzo is also more physically buff, has full hair, and has far less wrinkles on his face.
- Adaptational Badass: Unlike in the original, where he only stayed at the bar, Vincenzo in the Definitive Edition actively participates in an Assassination Attempt against Morello's Underboss Sergio Morello, Jr., also showing him to be a crack shot with a handgun. His backstory also reveals that he used to be in the Italian Army before deserting, thus explaining why he's good with guns.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In Definitive Edition, he gives Tommy access to his entire armory once he's established himself as a Caporegime.
- Age Lift: In the Definitive Edition, he looks 10 years younger, having far less wrinkles on his face and being much thinner and more buff.
- Batter Up!: He gives a baseball bat to Tommy on several occasions, including one with a fake MLB champion's autograph belonging to his nephew.
- Boisterous Bruiser: The remake makes him into a big-talking, friendly mook, and while it's noted in both his Cigarette Card profile and by several other characters that Vinny now mostly just brags about his old (likely embellished) exploits rather than fight on the front lines, he's still a guy you want on your side in a scrape. During Sam's hit against Sergio, he proves himself to be a great shot from a moving car, only just narrowly missing what could've been a bullet through the back window and out the head when Sergio is jolted out of the way.
- Demolitions Expert: He gives Tommy a bomb to put under Sergio Morello's car in "You Lucky Bastard!".
- Dirty Old Man: As Tommy leaves after collecting the dynamite for the brothel in the remake, he chuckles, "Give dose girls a squeeze from Uncle Vin, huh?"
- The Enemy Weapons Are Better:
- For some reason, he rarely gives Tommy more than a M1911 Colt and a baseball bat in the original, with a horribly imprecise Lupara on two instances, and actually keeps giving the Thompson submachine guns to Paulie and Sam. Paulie himself asks Vincenzo to give just a M1911 Colt to Tommy in "You Lucky Bastard!". He also has pump-action shotguns in his workshop, which he is never seen giving to anyone. The M1911 is a fairly decent weapon, but most late game enemies carry Thompsons and pump-action shotguns, outgunning it badly.
- Averted in the remake, where the weapons progressively unlock as Tommy shows his mettle, and he can just walk into his armory and pick up whatever guns he wants after he proves himself and becomes a Caporegime. The one time Vinny gives Tommy a Lupara, it's in "Omerta" for killing Frank, where it's treated as a symbolic gesture — shooting him with a traditional gun will send a message to both he and Morello that "the old ways" aren't to be trifled with.
- Gun Nut: He found his greatest love in guns and became the Salieri family's arsenal.
- Old Friend: According to Paulie, Vincenzo and Don Salieri have known each other since they were kids.
- Only One Name: He's only known by his first name in the original; the remake has his full name revealed in a cigarette card, and he is occasionally referred to as 'Vinny'.
Ralph
Ralph
"Hello T-T-T-T-Tommy!"
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Tomáš Sýkora (Czech), Jeff Gurner (English), Franck Lorrain (French), Alexey Kolgan (Russian)
(Remake): Radek Hoppe (Czech), Ward Roberts (English), Pavel Ryzhenkov (Russian)
The Salieri family's resident car provider and mechanic. Tommy can learn how to steal mundane cars thanks to him, and he also can talk to him to remove cars from his collection in Salieri's restaurant's backyard garage.
- The Alleged Car: The first car he provides to Tommy in the game, the Bolt Ace (based on the Ford Model T), is downright crappy, barely able to manage 46 miles and has difficulty climbing slopes.
- Butt-Monkey: Ralph is often the butt of ridicule by members of the Salieri family, with them looking down on Ralph as a "moron" or a "complete idiot" due to his condition, although Tommy appears to be more sympathetic towards him. Even more so in the remake where Paulie is shown to be bullying Ralph at least in one scene, much to the mechanic's deep-seated contempt.
- Cool Car: He provides Tommy with a few really good cars late in the game, such as the Lassiter V16 Fordor.
- Grease Monkey: He is always seen wearing his work dungarees.
- Idiot Savant: Despite being ridiculed as ostensibly a simpleton, he is actually quite knowledgeable, possessing extensive knowledge of the history of Lost Heaven that many others do not, and is seen reading in his quarters in the Definitive Edition's Free Ride mode.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: He's out of his league with anything beyond the Salieri family's backyard garage, but he's quite a Nice Guy.
- Master of Unlocking: He teaches Tommy how to lockpick mundane cars to steal them.
- Momma's Boy: In the remake, a photo can be found in his quarters showing him in a fancy suit alongside his mother.
- Speech Impediment: He stutters a lot.
Luigi
Luigi Marino
"Not now, Tommy."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Tomás Karger (Czech), Paul Scannapieco (English), Philippe Peythieu (French), Alexey Kolgan (Russian)
(Remake): Milan Slepička (Czech), Robert Catrini (English), Yuri Kudinov (Russian)
The bartender and Chef of Salieri's bar-restaurant, and the father of Sarah.
- The Bartender: He is always seen behind the bar of Salieri's restaurant.
- The Eeyore: He never smiles.
- Old Friend: He is an old friend of Don Salieri.
- Only One Name: Like many other characters in the game, he's only known by his first name.
- Papa Wolf: He wants to protect his daughter from harassment and hires Tommy for that reason.
- Retired Monster: The Definitive Edition's cigarette cards reveal that Luigi used to be a brutal hitman and enforcer back when Don Peppone ruled the city; just because he seems like a kindly, doting old man now doesn't mean it's any safer to cross him.
- Sawed-Off Shotgun: He packs a sawed-off double-barreled hunting shotgun and uses it in case he is attacked.
- Shipper on Deck: He's supportive of his daughter's relationship with Tommy. It's even implied that he lets his daughter visit him so that the two could have some bonding time together.
- Two Shots from Behind the Bar: If Tommy attacks him or anyone else in the bar during gear up phases that follow Salieri's mission briefings, he will shoot back with his sawed-off shotgun.
Sarah
Sarah Angelo, née Marino
"It's ME who should be thanking you."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Linda Rybová (Czech), Cara Buono (English), Nathalie Homs (French), Elena Solovyova (Russian)
(Remake): Lucie Pernetová (Czech), Bella Popa (English), Julia Astakhova (Russian)
Luigi's daughter. Tommy protected her against street thugs one night, and they fell in love and married as a result.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Thanks to having far more screentime, she's shown constantly worrying about Tommy's condition, especially following the events of "A Trip To the Country". And unlike the original, she actually witnesses Tommy's assassination by Vito and Joe, crying as he dies in her arms.
- Adaptational Badass: Rather than running away and calling for help in the Definitive Edition, she fights back against Billy by performing a Groin Attack on him.
- Abusive Parents: Not Luigi, but her mother. It's implied that her mother used to abuse Sarah as a child which is why Luigi brought her to his bar when she was so young. Once, her mother even stabbed her father in the hand with a sowing needle. Sarah even described her as "An ugly, jealous drunk."
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She tells Tommy she thinks he is a "very good bad man" before they kiss for the first time.
- Ascended Extra: Definitive Edition gives her more screentime to develop her relationship with Tommy.
- Bodyguard Crush: Luigi asks Tommy to escort Sarah on her way home. It just takes Tommy protecting her from a street gang and a night of sex for both of them to fall in love.
- Daddy's Girl: She's close to her father because her mother was an abusive and negligent alcoholic.
- Deadpan Snarker: In the Definitive Edition, Sarah is playfully snarky, usually towards Tommy.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: She falls in love with Tommy after healing the minor wounds he got defending her.
- The Ghost:
- She appears for a grand total of one mission in the game. She is mentioned several times later on, as well as the fact that Tommy and her married, had a daughter and changed their identities and residence location after Tommy testified against the Salieri family, and that's about it.
- Averted in the remake where her relationship with Tommy is further expanded upon.
- Love Interest: She is the love of Tommy's life.
- Morality Chain: One of the reasons (the other being their daughter) Tommy hasn’t become a completely cold-blooded hitman for Salieri.
- Nice Girl: Probably the closest the game has to an innocent person, with Frank's wife and daughter.
- Only One Name: Her maiden name (Luigi's family name) is not known. She most likely took Tommy's name, Angelo, after marrying him. The remake however gives her and her father's surname as Marino.
- Took a Level in Badass: Sarah is shown to be far less vulnerable in the remake, as she was able to kick the groin off one of those who tried to hit her.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In the remake, she (indirectly) calls Tommy out for assassinating Turnbull; he may have been corrupt as hell, but he was fiercely advocating women's suffrage.
Carlo
Carlo
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Remake): Jan Škvor (Czech), Joe Chrambello (English), Andrey Sipin (Russian)
Salieri's personal bodyguard and chauffeur. He later squeals to the Morellos about Don Salieri's visit to Pepé's Resturant.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: He goes from a generic looking man in his 30s in the original game to a much younger and more dashing gentleman his 20s in the Definitive Edition.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original, he was Salieri's bodyguard. In the Definitive Edition, it's explicitly stated by both Salieri and several other characters that Carlo serves as Salieri's chauffeur.
- Age Lift: The Definitive Edition ages him down by a decade.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He tries to beg Tommy to spare him as he's running away when the latter and Salieri confront him.
- Ascended Extra: In the original, he only appeared in the chapter Bon Appétit. In the remake, he gets more screentime, appearing periodically from the start of the game up until Bon Appétit, and even assists in the whiskey deal.
- Caught with Your Pants Down: Salieri and Tommy walk in on him about to have sex with a prostitute.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: In the remake, he gets his head stomped in by Salieri.
- Dirty Coward: He attempts to flee from Tommy and Salieri when they come to kill him.
- Facial Horror: In the Definitive Edition, Salieri stomps on his head until it splatters and caves in "like a watermelon", according to Sergio. A model of dead Carlo does exist in the game's files, revealing that at one point in the dev process it was going to be visible in the cutscene; while it's not quite as bad as described, it's still a gruesome sight, with bloody contusions everywhere and deep lacerations cut into the flesh by Salieri's heel.
- The Mole: He turns out to have sold out to Morello during the events of Bon Apetit. In the remake, Tommy even openly wonders just how much of the gang's misfortune over the years could be laid at Carlo's feet. At the very least, it's implied that the parking garage ambush in Great Deal was his doing, as he mentions that Paulie had bragged about the deal to him the day before, and he behaves nervously about Salieri suddenly volunteering him to go along.
- Nepotism: Paulie mentions in the remake that Carlo's late father came up in the business alongside the Don, earning his kid a little more trust and respect from the beginning. This only makes it even more personal for Salieri when Carlo sets him up to be assassinated, with him furiously ranting about shedding blood together with the old man and weeping at his funeral.
- Only One Name: We don't find out his last name, not even in the remake.
- Playing Sick: He does this to inform Morello about Don Salieri's visit to Pepé's so they can put a hit on him.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Despite Salieri having accepted and later helped him rise into his Family's ranks, Carlo, in return, instead decides to sell out to Morello just for some money.
Morello Crime Family
Don Morello
Don Marcu Morello
"We have been at war for a long time already, but now more than ever before."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Orginal): Petr Pospíchal (Czech), John Doman (English), Julien Kramer (French), Vladimir Bazhin (Russian)
(Remake): Ludvík Král (Czech), Saul Stein (English), Victor Mamonov (Russian),
The chief of the Salieri gang's rival family, and the most powerful crime lord of Lost Heaven at the beginning of Tommy's story. He is based in New Ark.
- Adaptational Villainy: Somehow even worse in the remake than in the original, because he is even more sadistic and petty and he gets more of his brother Sergio's unhinged, violent characterization from the original. His Establishing Character Moment summarizes this well.
- Alliterative Name: Marcu Morello.
- Ax-Crazy: He will kill people for the most insignificant slights.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: His crime family leans more towards the "black" side, being generally much more cruel and sadistic than Salieri's.Tommy: Salieri built his respect as a businessman. Everybody knew that they didn't need to fear him if they did what they should. They knew that if they needed something, they could come to Mr. Salieri. So Salieri made friends, often helped people with various problems, and expected the same in return. When somebody crossed him, they broke a cardinal rule and everybody knew what would happen. Morello was just a mean bastard. He built his power through violence. Even his friends feared him. Most people just tried to avoid him.
- Body Horror: Morello is left severely injured following his plane crash in the Definitive Edition. Fan videos showing the model in greater detail reveal that the entire left side of his face was burnt off, and he's got a scorched shrapnel wound tearing through his abdomen.
- Cool Car: His Silver Fletcher.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The remake has him suffer a prolonged, painful demise when his plane is shot down and crash-lands near the racetrack; he barely manages to crawl out of the wreckage, covered in burns and writhing in agony, hurt too badly to even scream. Paulie comments in shock that he's "dead and doesn't even know it yet", to which Tommy strafes him with machine-gun fire and grimly replies that he does now.
- Dirty Coward: He flees for his life when Salieri's boys finally come after him.
- Disc-One Final Boss: The game builds up to Tommy finally dealing with Don Morello, whose thugs are the ones who ran Tommy out of the taxi driver business in the first place. The Salieri family finally manages to get rid of him about 3/4ths of the way through the game actually, with the remainder of the game dealing with the gradual collapse of Tommy's Mafioso lifestyle.
- Disney Villain Death: One of the possible scenarios for his death has Tommy ramming his car to make him fall from an unfinished road bridge.
- The Don: The most powerful Italian-American crime lord in Lost Heaven at the beginning of the story. He is so powerful that he managed to buy the most influential politicians and judges, and got the whole Police Department of Lost Heaven on his payroll.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- When a driver involuntarily hits the back of his car after a rough braking, Morello bloodily bashes the man's head against his car, with a cop watching and doing nothing.
- Taken even further in the Definitive Edition — Morello is the one who rear-ended the guy in the first place while he was stopped at a crosswalk, and the victim happened to be a crooked boxer named Joey Crackers, who generated income for Morello’s syndicate by taking dives on fights. Morello's clearly in the wrong, they're in a public setting, killing this man would cost his organization, and Joey offers a sincere apology and a way to make it up to him; nonetheless, the Don takes a tire iron from his trunk and beats the boxer to death, all because the guy yelled at him before realizing who it was. The officers at the scene, meanwhile, just turn around and nervously walk away. Tommy speculates it may have all been a pretense to execute Joey Crackers for not pulling his weight, but sums it up by concurring with Salieri: sometimes, Morello's anger overrode his common sense, and being untouchable let him take risks that others wouldn't dare to consider.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In the remake, it's mentioned that he has a wife. Though she's never seen, and no mention is ever made about what happened to her after his death. He also shows genuine concern towards his brother Sergio and tells him to be careful. After Sergio's killed, Morello ramps up his war with Salieri.
- Evil Is Petty: In contrast with Don Salieri being Affably Evil, Morello shows no sympathy toward anyone but his brother, and will beat people to a pulp for the most minor slights.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: A minor scratch on his car is enough for him to lose his temper and brutally kill the offender.Morello: No! Bas.. tard! Gets! In! My! Way!
- Light Is Not Good: He always wears white suits, and is extremely ruthless.
- No One Should Survive That!: In the remake, Morello's plane crashes much like in the original. In all ways, this should be his end; but Tommy, Paulie, and Sam, despite being skeptical of his survival, quickly drive to the wreckage to confirm his demise. To their shock, Morello is alive, albeit heavily burnt and fighting to even breathe. Morello's survival is short-lived as Tommy riddles him with bullets to seal his fate.Tommy: Morello's not going to walk away from a plane crash!
Sam: That's a maybe, but he ain't dead 'till we've seen him dead! Out of all of us, you two should know that by now! - Only One Name: His first name is not known, he is just referred to as "Don Morello" or simply "Morello". The remake indicates his first name is Marcu, making it an Alliterative Name.
- Punctuated Pounding: Enacts this on a poor sap that accidentally bumped into his car.
- The Rival: To Don Salieri's gang in their power struggle for the control of Lost Heaven.
- Sadist: Shows indications of this in both versions, but especially in the remake where he likes dealing with problems personally, especially those that can't fight back.
- Siblings in Crime: His brother is his Number Two at the head of his gang.
- The Starscream: In the remake, Morello admits that he and Salieri killed the previous Don (their boss) and divided the city between them.
- Villain in a White Suit: He seems to always wear white suits (to the point it's highlighted in his character collectible card), and he's the most ruthless mob boss in town.
- We Have Reserves: His gang is much bigger than Salieri's, which allows him to send plenty of Cannon Fodder to get rid of the Salieris.
- We Used to Be Friends: He seems to echo Salieri's sentiment for their fallen friendship, and he was willing to show up at Frank's funeral to send his condolences, even though he spurred the events leading to Frank's betrayal into happening.
- Wicked Cultured: He rarely shows up in public, but in the mission where he has to be assassinated, he goes to the opera.
Sergio
Sergio Morello Jr.
"We would like to introduce you to our principles about labor unions in this free country of ours. Carry on, boys!"
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Renaud Sebbane (English), Alexey Kolgan (Russian)
(Remake): Jakub Saic (Czech), Matt Borlenghi (English), Valery Storozhik (Russian)
Don Morello's younger brother, and the Morello gang's underboss. He is in charge of several assets on behalf of his brother, including port activities through control of the Docker's Union, which basically allows the Morello family to illegally benefit from all importations and exportations in Lost Heaven.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: SLIGHT example. In the original he's portrayed as a psychologically unhinged ball of violence and murder with a taste for sadism. These are somewhat toned down in the remake by his brother and boss showing these traits more prominently and doing things like who beats the union leader to death.
- Bad Boss: His methods are not appreciated in Lost Heaven, as shown when he has a Dockers' Union representative beaten to death. Even in the Definitive Edition, where it's his brother who's beating up the Union representative, Sergio doesn't object to it in the slightest.
- Born Lucky: As the title of the mission he appears in suggests, he is one very lucky bastard.
- In the original, he escapes no less than four assassination attempts by Salieri's men in a row. It takes a Car Chase and an improvised and nigh-suicidal assault on his heavily defended port hideout by Tommy to get rid of him.
- Slightly downplayed in the remake. While he is still stupid lucky, the main part of his mission is condensed to a single day, and many of Tommy and friends' actions mostly amount to spur-of-the-moment decisions rather than premeditated plans.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: He has a Dockers' Union representative tied and bloodily beaten for objecting his brutal methods against said unions.
- Cool Car: Like Salieri, he has a green and black Lassiter V16 Roadster.
- Cornered Rattlesnake: He at least puts up a fight when you corner him in both the original and the remake, though in both cases he's no tougher than a regular Mook.
- The Dragon: He is his brother's Number Two, and Tommy has to kill him first so the Morello family's empire will start to collapse, allowing them to get rid of Don Morello later on.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: The Definitive Edition has Tommy chase down Sergio after he escapes the assassination attempt on him in the diner, and later chase him into the warehouse he flees to at the docks.
- Human Shield: When cornered at the diner in the remake, he takes a waitress hostage and holds her body in front of his. It turns out to be another stroke of wild luck for him — while Paulie is willing to shoot through her, Tommy, who's still in shock from accidentally killing Sergio's mistress with the car bomb, can't bring himself to let another woman die and grabs Paulie's machine gun, allowing Sergio to take advantage of the distraction and escape out the back.
- Jerkass: He's no better than his older brother in this regard.
- Karmic Death: Tommy kills him in the very warehouse where he had someone tortured to death for objecting his authoritary methods.
- Number Two: The second highest-ranking member in the Morello crime family behind his brother.
- Sadist: As Salieri puts it if you talk to him in "You Lucky Bastard!":Salieri: I heard he's not right in the head. He likes seeing people suffer... So as soon as somebody gets in his way he has them knocked off, he likes to take his time and always be present. I certainly don't call his working methods good... Maniac.
- Serendipitous Survival: In The City of Lost Heaven, he survives two out of four assassination attempts just by not being there at the right time, be it a restaurant where he didn't show up where he usually does (leading Paulie to gun down a mook in his place) and a car bombing (his mistress uses the car and dies instead).
- Siblings in Crime: His brother made him the Number Two of his gang.
- We Have Reserves: Hides behind a number of Mooks when Tommy comes to kill him.
- Would Hit a Girl: In the remake, he uses a waitress as a Human Shield during a shootout with Salieri's gang.
Dino and Lou
Dino and Lou
Lou wears a jacket, Dino wears a waistcoat
Voiced by: Anthony Bonaventura (Dino), Kenny Lorenzetti (Lou) [English]
Two of Morello's goons. They are the ones who wreck Tommy's taxi and kickstart the main story.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Both men in the remake are smart enough to back off when the odds aren't in their favor, which saves them from getting shot and killed by Salieri's guys. This is in stark contrast to their original incarnations, who immediately get gunned down attempting to pursue Tommy into Salieri's bar.
- The Cameo: They both make a brief appearance alongside their bosses during Frank's funeral.
- Dub Name Change: In the Czech dubbing of original version Lou is known as Robert. Averted in the Definitive Edition where his name stays the same. Though for a Czech player this is the case of Adaptational Name Change.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: In the remake, they wisely back off and escape with their lives when Sam and Paulie confront and later threaten them for going after Tommy.
- Named by the Adaptation: Only Lou's name was given in the original (where he was originally called Louie), with the other goon remaining unnamed. In the remake, Sam namedrops both of their names when they try to go after Tommy in front of Salieri's bar.
- Small Role, Big Impact: They only have one scene, but their getting back at Tommy for aiding Sam and Paulie is what finally convinces Tommy to join the Salieri Family.
- Spared by the Adaptation: While their original incarnations were killed trying to go after Tommy in Salieri's bar, in the remake they wisely back off when Paulie threatens both of them with a shotgun. Following this, it's unknown what happened to them following the deaths of Sergio and Don Morello.
- Too Dumb to Live: In the original game, they chase Tommy into Salieri's bar, thinking that he would be an easy target despite said bar being their rival gang's base of operations. It earns both of them a shotgun shell to the chest.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: While they survive their chase against Tommy in the remake, their fates are unknown later during the Mob War between Morello and Salieri later in the story.
Public Figures
The City Councilor
Roberto Ghillotti
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Alexey Kolgan (Russian)
(Remake): Jaroslav Horák (Czech), Paul Ghiringhelli (English), Alexander Andrienko (Russian)
The councilor for Lost Heaven who's willing to side with the Morellos to take down the Salieri Mob after his son Billy was killed by one of their men.
- Character Death: Tommy shoots and kills him during the events of "Happy Birthday".
- Corrupt Politician: He's the Morello Family's biggest political ally, being on their payroll and all. He even manages to influence the Lost Heaven Police Department into harassing Salieri's operations.
- Create Your Own Villain: He becomes an ally of Morello and a persistent thorn in the side of the Salieri family because Paulie and Tommy end up executing his son, even though their orders were just to beat him up.
- Hypocrite: Publicly claims he wants organized crime in Lost Heaven eradicated, but is secretly working with and being paid by the Morello Crime Family.
- Named by the Adaptation: In the remake, he is named Roberto Ghillotti.
- No Name Given: In the original he is only known as the city councilor.
- Outliving One's Offspring: He outlives his son by three years.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He's a city councilor with a fairly good reputation, with the public not knowing he's secretly aligned himself with Morello's crew.
The Politician
Mr. Sewer/Hank Turnbull
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
A politician looking to crack down on organized crime in Lost Heaven.- Adaptational Heroism: While he is still involved with prostitutes in the Definitive Edition, he's also mentioned to have been a women's rights advocate, even helping to have women's suffrage passed.
- Age Lift: Definitive Edition ages him by a good 10-15 years.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He is, rather unceremoniously, sniped from the old prison while giving a public speech.
- Hidden Depths: Tommy figures Turnbull to be quite the hypocrite to be planning to crack down on organized crime when he frequents the services of prostitutes more than both Paulie and Sam. However, as Sarah notes the day after the assassination, Turnbull also fought hard to ratify women's suffrage, a move risked his entire political career.Sarah: Guess nobody's just one thing, are they?
- I Have Many Names: In the 2002 original, his name is simply Mr. Sewer. In the remake, he is named Hank Turnbull.
Other Key Characters
Lucas Bertone
Lucas Bertone
"You see that beaut'? Well, I can't give it to you, but I can show you how to lift one and where."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitve Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Václav Knop (Czech), Jeff Gurner (English), Bruno Dubernat (French), Boris Repetur (Russian)
(Remake): Filip Jančík (Czech), Thomas Gorrebeeck (English), Ivan Kalinin (Russian)
Lucas Bertone is the Sicilian-born owner of Bertone's Auto Service, he is a car mechanic for the rich people of Lost Heaven. Bertone became a friend for Tommy, and frequently asks services to him, which are rewarded by teaching him how to lockpick luxury cars and indicating him their location so he can steal them.
- Collection Sidequest: Tommy can visit him after completing missions. Lucas will give him a mission, and once completed will teach him how to steal luxury cars and where to find them.
- Cool Cars: Luxury cars and advanced car models can be obtained by Tommy in the campaign through him, which makes them available in the Free Ride mode.
- Grease Monkey: He is always busy fixing cars when Tommy visits him, and never seen wearing anything else than his work dungarees.
- Lovable Rogue: He is very big-hearted even though, in view of the services he provides to the Mafia and car-stealing tips he gives to Tommy, he is no saint.
- The Medic: Starting mid-way through the game, he has a medical pack in his garage that Tommy can use.
- Master of Unlocking: Luxury cars have no secrets for him, and he teaches Tommy how to lockpick them.
- Mr. Fixit: He doesn't appear in the Free Ride Mode but his garage can be used to repair cars in said mode.
Billy
William "Billy" Ghillotti
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Remake): Libor Hruška (Czech), Jarrett Sleeper (English)
The leader of a small gang of street punks, and the son of Lost Heaven city councilor, Roberto Ghillotti.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In the Definitive Edition, as Tommy levels his gun at him, he tearfully pleads "I don't wanna fuckin' die", showing that, despite it all, he's still a stupid, frightened teenager. Tommy, who's never killed someone begging for their life in cold blood, is disturbed enough to hesitate, and Paulie finishes him off.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Despite the horrible things he's done, Tommy, and by extension the player, will probably feel bad for him, as at the end of the day he was still just a teenager.
- Asshole Victim: In-Universe. No one in the Salieri Family was sad to see him get killed, not even Tommy, who agreed with Paulie that he and his gang could have raped Sarah. Instead, Frank sees his death as more of an inconvenience for the business, since his father would very likely and did end up working for Morello without hesitation.
- Attempted Rape: His debut chapter has him and his gang attempting to rape Sarah, with Tommy beating them into submission and preventing that from happening.
- Bullying a Dragon: He should have known better than to deal with a member of one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Lost Heaven. Unfortunately, by the time he realizes this, he's already been marked for death by Paulie.
- Named by the Adaptation: He is given the surname Ghillotti in the remake.
- Only One Name: His surname is not revealed in the original.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Everyone in the mob is disgusted by even the potential that he and his boys could've done something to Sarah, and Salieri orders Tommy and Paulie to beat them with an inch of their lives to show the neighborhood that such crimes won't be tolerated. Paulie tries to use what a scumbag Billy was to justify killing him to both the Don and Tommy; this turns out to have been a very bad move.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Attempts to use his father's political ambitions to get away with whatever he wants.
- Teens Are Monsters: A teenager and a ruthless gang leader of similarly aged roughnecks and hooligans, who doesn't hesitate to consider making advances on Sarah and having his way with her.
Michelle
Michelle
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Laura Maxwell (English), Elena Solovyova (Russian)
(Remake): Terezie Taberyová (Czech), Maggie McGovern (English), France Renard (French)
A prostitute who works at the Corleone Hotel. She is targeted by Salieri for passing information about their operations.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the remake, she is viscerally frightened when Tommy comes in and intimidates her. In the original, she was simply clueless and surprised at Tommy's barging in.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: She has black hair in the remake, while in the original she had brown hair.
- Adaptational Intelligence: In the remake, she takes Tommy's warning very seriously and leaves Lost Heaven for good. Too bad it doesn't save her from getting found out anyway.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original, she was a friend of Sarah's, whereas in the remake she's a close associate of Sam's, the latter being a frequent customer of hers.
- Killed Offscreen: Sam mentions her being killed after attempting to return to town during "The Death of Art".
- Only One Name: Her full name isn't revealed in either version.
- Too Dumb to Live: In the original, she goes back to Lost Heaven, and ends up getting killed by either Sam or one of Don Salieri's hitmen on Sam's orders.
Detective Norman
Detective John Norman
"I ain't Santa Claus."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by: Alexej Pyško (Czech)
(Original): David O'Brien (English), Vincent Ropion (French), Alexey Kolgan (Russian)
(Remake): Dameon Clarke (English), Alexander Dzyuba (Russian)
A seasoned detective in the Lost Heaven Police Department. Tommy arranges a meeting with him to talk about his years in the Salieri gang in order to sell them out and, as such, protect himself and his family.
- Audience Surrogate: As he listens to Tommy, the player discovers Tommy's story.
- Adaptational Badass: He holds a more responsive position during his conversation with Tommy in the remake, going from simply listening to everything that Tommy had to say and teach to being capable of making links and bringing up events that support Tommy's story with his own possession of case files. Notably, he's the one that reveals Morello and Salieri's past friendship instead of Tommy.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: He's more sympathetic and amiable in the remake.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: When Norman first meets Tom at the diner, he accurately figures out that he's on the run due to how on edge and tired he looks. Norman also accurately points out that the only reason Tom came to him was that whoever was after him was not only powerful but wouldn't stop until he was eliminated; Norman's his only option left, and he needs his help.
- Deadpan Snarker: He never runs out of sarcasms as Tommy recalls his years in a criminal gang, holding all of this in high contempt.
- Family Man: Being a family man himself, Norman's more understanding of Tommy's situation in the remake; he knows the fear of one of his kids dying before he does. He warns Tommy of the targets that will be on their backs if he agrees to testify; citing that if it comes to either of them taking a bullet, he won't be making his own wife a widow.
- Framing Device: The entire game is basically Tommy acting as this guy's stool pigeon in exchange for protection.
- Jerkass: He acts like he hates everybody around him, and gangsters especially.
- Lead Police Detective: He becomes the lead investigator of the Salieri gang case after Tommy has told him everything he needs to know about their activities.
- Officer O'Hara: In the English dub at least.
- Perma-Stubble: In the original, he hasn't shaved for quite some time before Tommy meets him, as his scruffy face shows.
- Pet the Dog: By the time Tommy is done telling his story in the remake, he sympathizes with his situation, offering to put him into Witness Protection for as long as he can. But only if he testifies.
- The Watson: Tommy tells his story in part through answers to Norman's questions.
- Witness Protection: Once Tommy has told him everything about his story, Norman promises him protection if he testifies to have the Salieri gang arrested.
March and Alice Colletti
March and Alice Colletti
Alice and March as seen in the remake.
Frank Colletti's wife and daughter, whom Tommy has to rescue when Frank flees to Europe to escape Salieri after he was forced to hand over the family's account books.
- Age Lift: Alice appears to be in her teens in the remake as opposed to a six or seven-year old girl in the original.
- Head Swap: Based on the game files for the original, Alice is apparently a shrunk-down reskin of a female civilian instead of a unique child model.
- Killed Offscreen: Implied by Sam in the remake that not only was Frank tracked down by Salieri's crew and murdered in revenge for his betrayal, Alice and March were forced to buy the farm as well.
- Run for the Border: Frank and his family were forced to escape to Europe.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Salieri got Frank in the end. Even worse in the remake, where it's implied the Don had his entire family wiped out as well.
- Uncertain Doom: When Tommy asks the wounded Sam about what happened to Frank's family, Sam simply shrugs. While it's heavily implied that Salieri had them killed too, the game itself, and Sam's lack of a concrete answer, leaves their fates ambiguous.
- Witness Protection: Following Frank's forced betrayal he and his family were under witness protection with them fleeing to Europe in order to escape Salieri's wrath. Only problem was that one of Salieri's informants spotted him at a greyhound race which led to him and his family's death.
Martin Lichtenberg
Martin Lichtenberg
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
A European race car driver who participated in the 1932 Lost Heaven Grand Prix. Salieri sends Tommy to sabotage Lichtenberg's car so that his preferred driver would win.- Adaptational Villainy: In the remake, he's being paid by Don Morello to win the race. This later comes back to bite him after his car was unknowingly sabotaged by Tommy Angelo.
- Humiliation Conga: He gets forced out of the race due to his car's engine exploding at the starting line (thanks to Tommy sabotaging it the night before unbeknowing to him). In the remake, he can be later seen getting beaten up by two Morello thugs as punishment for both his ineptitude and for losing them money.
- Laser-Guided Karma: For being on Don Morello's payroll and indirectly getting Mikey Dunne beaten up, Lichtenberg himself ends up getting the same treatment following his Humiliation Conga during the race.
- The Voiceless: He doesn't speak in either version.
The Hitmen (SPOILER CHARACTERS)
Vito Scaletta and Joe Barbaro
"Mr. Salieri sends his regards."
The City of Lost Heavennote
Definitive Edition
Vito voiced by:
(Original): Bill Buell (English), Fyodor Sukhov (Russian)
(Remake): Rick Pasqualone (English), Vladislav Kopp (Russian)
Two mafia hitmen sent to kill Tommy in the game's ending. Vito and Joe would later go on to be the primary and secondary protagonists respectively in Mafia II.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: They used touched-up depictions of their Mafia II models in the remake, which, needless to say, is much easier on the eyes than the generic thugs from the original game.
- Adaptational Weapon Swap: Whereas Joe in the original and Definitive Edition used a Lupara to execute Tommy, in Mafia II Joe used a full-sized pump shotgun to shoot Tommy, complete with a Dramatic Gun Cock before firing.
- All There in the Script: The hitman who delivers the Pre-Mortem One-Liner is only named Vito in subtitles.
- Ascended Extra: They both get playable roles and expanded upon in Mafia II.
- Avenging the Villain: They carry out a hit for Salieri. Mafia II reveals that it was impersonal on their part, though the hit was put out by remaining members for the sake of the family.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Though we learn nothing about them in this game and it's easy to see them as just a couple of thugs who were hired to kill an old man, the sequel definitely shows them to be tough sons of bitches.
- Continuity Nod: They wear their signature outfits from Mafia II in the remake, which flows seamlessly into that same game where Joe will wear his usual attire rather than the suit from the original gamenote .
- Cool Car: They're seen pulling up to Tommy's house in either a: Bolt Thrower (original game), Smith Thunderbolt (Mafia II), or Smith Moray (Definitive Edition), all based on the 1955 Ford Thunderbird and known for being able to outrun police cars. The sequel reveals that Eddie Scarpa gave this car to both of them specifically for this hit, probably because of the FBI Agents protecting Tommy.
- Diabolus ex Machina: Despite the Salieri family's operations falling apart thanks to Tommy's information, two hitmen manage to catch up to him many years after. This portrays how one can never truly retire from the criminal underground, and that it will catch up, just as Sam warned. Mafia II reveals that it was a quick favor enacted by Vito and Joe, and the Mafia II Mobile game explains that a nephew from one of the organization's members put the hit out.
- Early-Bird Cameo: They would become the main characters in the sequel released years later.
- Fat Bastard: Joe comes across as one since he says nothing before coldly gunning down Tommy.
- Flat Character: Neither Vito or Joe show any kind of personality and are portrayed as being just generic mafia hitmen.
- Hero of Another Story: The sequel focuses on them narratively. Vito has a whole game's worth of adventures he's participated in and is himself on track much like Tommy's for his own life of crime. Of course, none of that matters to Tommy; to him, they're just two goons enacting Salieri's revenge.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Their appearance in the Definitive Edition spoils the fact that Tommy's killers are actually the protagonists of the sequel, which was treated as a twist in Mafia II.
- No Name Given: The hitman who pulls the trigger is not given a name in this game.
- Nothing Personal: It's revealed in the sequel that they have no loyalty to Salieri and are simply carrying out the hit to pay off their unrelated debts.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Mr. Salieri sends his regards."
- Previous Player-Character Cameo: Inverted. They are the player characters of the sequel making a cameo appearance in the remake of the first game.
- Punch-Clock Villain: The sequel reveals that they only did the hit on Tommy because they were in debt, and needed to do jobs such as this one to pay it off.
- Retcon: Originally they were simply two generic hitmen in the 2002 version. Mafia II gave them their own personalities and stories, and the remake alters the scene to maintain consistency with them.
- Sawed-Off Shotgun: Joe kills Tommy by blasting him in the abdomen with a Lupara (sawed-off hunting shotgun).
- Theme Song Reveal: Their entrance is heralded by the Mafia II main theme.
- The Voiceless: Being a simple thug with no developed personality or significance as of yet, Joe is completely silent, whereas in Mafia II he's quite the chatterbox. Comes full-circle in the remake, where Joe doesn't speak because the game uses recycled audio from II, which itself paid homage to the original scene by having Joe clam up for once and Vito do the talking.
Other Minor Characters
Gates
William Gates
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
A whiskey dealer from Kentucky, whose product is highly sought after in the Prohibition years.(Remake): Václav Rašilov (Czech), Myko Olivier (English), Andrey Lysenko (Russian)
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In the Definitive Edition, Gates is a 20-30-something young gentleman, whereas in the original he was an average-looking middle-aged man.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Whereas Gates in the original was a Con Man planning on duping both the Salieris and Morellos, the Definitive Edition's version of Gates is a genuine whiskey dealing willing to do honest business with the Salieris.
- Age Lift: The Definitive Edition makes him a good 20-25 years younger.
- Butt-Monkey: After defecting from Morello's abuse in the Definitive Edition, he gets his already broken nose hit again by Paulie to help make their deal look like a robbery. He was counting on it, but he's still sore about the situation.
- Con Man: Gates in the original game doesn't have a distillery at all, and is just passing off whiskey stolen from Morello as his own. Salieri manages to look on the bright side of it afterward — Gates and his men were killed before they could be paid, they still have the booze, and Morello never managed to recover his lost goods.
- Deep South: The Definitive Edition's Gates hails from the very heart of Kentucky, with an accent to match. It's never commented on, but all three present members of his crew are also black, suggesting the Gates family, like many old-money and traditionalist Southern families of the day, hires exclusively black people for menial positions.
- Doing It for the Art: In-universe, the original's Gates claims that he didn't just come to Lost Heaven to distribute his whiskey for the money's sake, but because he considers the quality of bootleg alcohol in the city to be disgraceful.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Physical abuse at the hands of Morello's gang and their demands has prompted him to try making a deal with Salieri's crew in the remake.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Although it's completely unremarkable in the time period of the game, and he's never directly referred to as "Bill Gates", it's the sort of name a player can't help but raise an eyebrow at.
- In the remake, Gates is only ever referred to by his surname, but the allusion is slyly maintained by having an otherwise unremarkable Salieri goon named "Little Bill" stay behind with Gates to help cover his escape.
- Nasal Trauma: The remake version goes through a downplayed version of this. Part of Morello's hardball terms involved beating the shit out of him, which included a broken nose. When he and Paulie finish their deal, Paulie makes it look like Gates was robbed by again punching him in the nose, much to his chagrin."Damn thing's gonna be crooked by the time I'm done with this city."
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: The original Mafia's Gates has absolutely no vocal qualities whatsoever even suggesting he's from Kentucky — which makes sense, because he isn't.
- Not His Sled: In the original Mafia, Gates is just a small-time local crook and his yarn about being a big Kentucky whiskey magnate offering a long-term partnership is all a desperate con to quickly fence his stolen hooch to a gullible Paulie before Morello's goons can track him down and kill him, which they do. In the remake, his background, whiskey and partnership deal are all 100% genuine, and he survives long enough to make it happen. Too bad it comes right before the repeal of Prohibition.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: In the Definitive Edition, after an intense shootout in the parking garage, Gates successfully makes a deal with the Salieri family to distribute his whiskey, and everyone celebrates, certain this deal is going to make them all rich. The mission takes place on September 22nd, 1933, less than three months away from the repeal of the 21st Amendment and the end of Prohibition, making everything they just went through completely pointless. Somewhat Averted, though, as Tommy states that while they didn't make a long-term arrangement, the heist generated enough income to allow Salieri's organization to diversify before the repeal and trigger their rise to power.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the original game, he gets hit in the shootout and is not seen further, implying he was killed. In the remake, he takes a bullet to the shoulder and survives.
Johnny
Johnny
Definitive Edition
Voiced by: Oldřich Hajlich (Czech), Jason Kyle (English)
A friend of Billy who hangs around with his gang.- Bond Villain Stupidity: Instead of just killing Tommy, he takes the time to tell him to confess his crimes and even apologizes to the priest for the murder he’s about to commit. This gives Sam the window of opportunity to Sneak Attack him with a headshot.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Sam takes him out.
- Made of Iron: He survives a major car wreck and getting shot in the face by Paulie. Don Salieri even notes that this is why you always shoot someone in the head twice. Even after being shot in the face once again by Tommy in a fight and seemingly being dead, he gets up a minute or so later and gets the drop on Tommy, only being finally killed by Sam (who does exactly what Salieri advised and shoots him twice in the head).
- Only One Name: We never get to know his full name in the remake.
Salvatore
Salvatore
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Alexey Kolgan (Russian)
(Remake): Roberto Caporali (Czech), Jordi Caballero (English)
"The safes keep getting better, so a fella has to keep up with the times."
A locksmith based in Lost Heaven, who also happens to be the best safecracking specialist in the country.- Age Lift: Looks older by a good 15 years or so in the remake, suggesting he's been in this occupation for a while.
- Bilingual Bonus: In the Definitive Edition, he is fresh off the boat and mostly speaks his native Italian, which is left untranslated.Salvatore: Parli almeno un po' di Italiano? Il capo ti ha detto il piano? note
Tommy: Uh, I don't speak Italian.
Salvatore: (Exasperated) Eccelente. Fantastico. (Trying very hard) Know... plan?
Tommy: Yeah, the boss told me.
Salvatore: Er, please... understand. Entriamo dal labirinto senza farci sentire né vedere. La cassaforte è dietro un dipinto al primo piano. Dammi un po' di tempo e lascia fare tutto a me. Quella cassaforte avra sicuramente un allarme.note
Tommy: Uh... yeah. This is gonna be a long night for th' both of us...
Salvatore: Cristo santo... - Bring My Brown Pants: He admits he "almost crapped his pants" as Tommy brings him back home after they successfully stole the documents and escaped the Prosecutor's house, which was heavily guarded.
- Escort Mission: Tommy has to infiltrate the Prosecutor's heavily guarded house and get Salvatore to the Prosecutor's safe to steal incriminating documents.
- Family Business: His family specializes in locksmithing at least since his grandpa... and in safecracking too.
- Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Salvatore gives a scathing lecture to Tommy after his impulsiveness almost gets them both killed, acknowledging it's wasted on him but he needs to vent anyway.Tommy, devo dirti una cosa. Al nostro prossimo lavoro, penso io alla cassaforte, hai capito? Ci ho quasi rimesso la pelle in quella villa, ed è tutta colpa tua. È impara almeno un po di Italiano, per rispetto della nostra patria! È come parlare al mio cane, lo so, ma Cristo, dovevo dirlo. Non farlo mai più. Mai più.note
- Language Barrier: His inability to speak English is a huge pain for Tommy, who has lived in America, surrounded by mostly English speakers, all his life. It gets to the point that Salvatore has to resort to You No Take Candle to get his points across.
- Master of Unlocking: He is the best safecracker around so common locks are just small potatoes to him. He can also unlock the Silver Fletcher luxury car for Tommy to steal.
- Only One Name: His only known name is "Salvatore".
- Safecracking: He is the best safecracking 'artisan' in America, making him highly sought after by people such as Don Salieri. Notably, he tells Tommy he has to keep up with the evolution of safe securities.
Pepe
Pepe
"Molto grazie Don! Praise from a gourmet like you always makes me fill with joy."
The City of Lost Heaven
Definitive Edition
Voiced by:
(Original): Renaud Sebbane (English), Alexander Gruzdev (Russian)
(Remake): Jiří Vašluba (Czech), Bobby Thomas (English), Vsevolod Kuznetsov (Russian)
A Sicilian-born restaurant owner and chef, the most renowned Italian cuisine guy in Lost Heaven.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Due to being older in the Definitive Edition, Pepe is now bald, has gray hair, has several noticeable wrinkles on his forehead, and overall looks less pleasant to the eye as a result.
- Age Lift: He looks about 15-20 years older in the Definitive Edition, helping to establish him as a seasoned chef.
- Innocent Bystander: Don Salieri and Tommy get ambushed by Morello's men inside his restaurant. Fortunately, he manages to hide behind his bar while Morello's men gun down everyone in the restaurant bar Salieri and Tommy.
- Italians Talk with Hands: He makes some gestures while talking to Salieri and Tommy.
- Only Known By His Nickname: "Pepe" is the short form of "Giuseppe". No family name is given otherwise.
- Supreme Chef: Don Salieri loves the meals he cooks, and admits he cooks better than Luigi, who's already a good Chef to begin with. Salieri also jokes with Tommy, telling him Sarah will be jealous of Pepe's cooking talents if he plans to bring her there.
Yellow Pete
"Yellow" Pete
"Okay, son, what brings you here?"
Voiced by: Karel Richter (Czech), Ray DeMattis (English), Michel Barbey (French), Vladimir Bazhin (Russian)
An old weapons dealer based in Hoboken and acquaintance of Paulie and Don Salieri.
- Adapted Out: He is notably absent in the HD remake, leaving the final two missions with Paulie and Tommy either using the weapons they already have in their possession or obtaining them somewhere else.
- An Arm and a Leg: He is one-armed.
- Arms Dealer: Unlike Vincenzo who rarely gives Tommy more than a baseball bat and a M1911 Colt, Yellow Pete can provide him all the weapons he wants in the game's last two missions — except the Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Tommy and Paulie note that he's rather eccentric, but the quality of his guns is top notch.
- Cool Old Guy: He's rather friendly, and can provide Tommy with a large choice of weapons. He also encourages Tommy to avenge Paulie in "The Death of Art", if Tommy comes to him to get weapons before going to the museum.
- Meaningful Name: According to Paulie, he has "the yellowest teeth in town".
- The Pig-Pen: Paulie and Tommy both agree on the fact that his teeth stink.
