User blog:Sirin of the Void/PE Removal Proposal - Angel Eyes


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I'm going to explain how each of his crimes stack up against the other villains in the Dollar Trilogy (or the DT as I'll refer to it as for the remainder of this EP).

Why he doesn't qualify
Killing two out of a family of four: All three of the DT main villains destroy a family, but Angel Eyes is the only one that doesn't wipe the family out completely. Ramon and his gang burn the Baxter family's house and gun down the entire family after they surrender, while Indio has a former accomplice's wife and baby dragged outside and shot out of spite towards him before killing the man himself. In contrast, Angel Eyes only kills two of the family in question; the father because he was hired to, and the teenage son because he was going for a gun.

Killing his former employer: Said employer is hardly a saint himself, he's the one that hired him to do the above job.

Beating a woman up for information: Positively tame, especially since he doesn't kill her once she tells him what he wants to know. On the subject of violence against women, it should be noted that he's the only one out of the DT's main villains that isn't a rapist.

Having Tuco tortured while forcing POWs to play music so his superiors won't hear, with mention of having done this before: this is his standout crime, but there are two tings to note. Firstly the offscreen rule, we only saw him do this once. A serial killer that's only shown killing or trying to kill one person generally wouldn't count, so for this to count we'd have to se at least a couple of tortures. Second he's not the only torturer in the DT. The entire Rojo gang tortured Clint Eastwood's character, with Esteban strongly implied to get off on it. Indio arguably tortures his former partner psychologically by forcing him to listen to the deaths of his family. And even Tuco tortures Clint Eastwood's character at one point (the scene's played comedically, but still).

So there's Angel Eyes' rap sheet, he kills three people (one of whom deserves it) beats a woman up and has Tuco tortured with other tortures taking place off screen. His competition includes a mass murderer and a baby-killing rapist, so I don't feel he's heinous enough at all.