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| “ | Ennio Salieri preys on people's fears of losing what they have, so they become obedient to the protection he promises them. | „ |
| ~ Tommy Angelo |
Don Ennio Salieri is the main antagonist of the 2002 video game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven as well as its 2020 remake Mafia: Definitive Edition, and one of the three overarching antagonists (alongside Bruno Levine and Derek Pappalardo) of its 2010 sequel Mafia 2, and probably he will return in the upcoming 2025 prequal Mafia: The Old Country in some capacity.
He is the don of the Salieri Crime Family and the boss and ally to the protagonist Tommy Angelo. Following the death of Don Morello, Salieri fulfills the role as the main antagonist for the final few missions of the game.
He was voiced by the late George DiCenzo in the original game, who also voiced Earnest Kelly in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and by Glenn Taranto in the remake, who also voiced Earl Wilson in Mafia III.
Biography[]
In 1930, Ennio took in Thomas Angelo, a taxi driver who had helped two of his men Paulie Lombardo and Sam Trapani escape from mobsters from rival gangsters sent by Ennio's enemy and old friend Marcu Morello. Ennio has met Morello when they worked as capos for a mobster called Don Peppone during the 1920s, but after his death they blamed each other and went their separate ways and formed their own families, becoming sworn rivals.
During the 1930s, Ennio came under pressure by police and Morello's men, and the police made his trusted friend and Consigliere Frank Colletti betray him (unknown to Salieri Frank's wife and daughter where kidnapped by police who where in Morello's pocket). Despite sending Tommy to kill Frank, Tommy let him flee the country with his wife and child, and told Ennio he had killed Frank. Frank was given a funeral without a body, and Salieri wouldn't discover Tommy's deceit under many years later.
In 1935, Salieri trusted Tommy a lot and even had him escort him to a restaurant for lunch, but it was ambushed by Morello's men who where tipped off by Salieri's personal driver who called in sick that day. Salieri went to the driver's apartment, and Tommy killed him.
Following that incident, Salieri gave Tommy a lot of work to do. Starting with killing a city councilor who was associated with Morello, and then Morello's brother Sergio, and finally, eliminating Morello himself.
In 1938, he got Tommy to steal a shipment of diamonds, although told him they where cigars. When Tommy and Paulie found out, they felt used and betrayed so they robbed a bank without Salieri's permission. Salieri also found out that Frank wasn't dead, and also a woman associate with the family who Tommy was ordered to kill years prior. Frank was killed off for good, and Salieri hired Sam to kill Paulie which he did. Tommy was lured to a museum by Sam to be killed, but Sam was whacked. Tommy fled town with his wife and daughter, and later cooperated with a detective to bring down the Salieri Crime Family.
Salieri was arrested, and give life in prison, and many of his crew where given death on the electic chair. Tommy was given a new identity and sent to another city. However, the Salieri's built themselves back up and in 1951, got a family known as the Falcones in Empire Bay to kill Tommy Angelo, which their soldiers Vito Scaletta and Joe Barbaro accomplished.
Trivia[]
- Salieri bears a resemblance to Paulie Cicero from the 1990 film GoodFellas.
- His first name "Ennio" was not revealed until Mafia II, where his full name is revealed in the loading screens. He was only known by his surname in the first game.
- By the events of Mafia II, it is unknown if Salieri is still alive. Although, his gang seemed to have built themselves back up by those events.
- Salieri is depicted in a significantly darker light in Mafia: The Definitive Edition:
- He is shown to be somewhat of a hypocrite as he claims to be sternly against dealing hard drugs (despite eventually doing exactly that behind the backs of Tommy, Sam and Paulie), preaches about self control despite showing himself to be immensely hot-tempered and vengeful after a failed assassination attempt on him, and claims to value loyalty above all else while betraying his men (by leaving them unaware about his heroin being in a bunch of cigar crates he lets them steal which could have landed them in prison for live).
- He is said to have attempted to strangle and later shot a dog he and Frank used in illegal races because she failed once after getting pregnant.
- Despite having been friends with him for years, Frank always expected of him to have him killed someday.
- After tracking down Frank, he not only had him murdered (as in the original) but presumably his entire family as well.
- He shows no reaction when a restaurant owner who he was on friendly terms with is presumably killed in a failed assassination attempt, instead being furious about his car being destroyed.
- He is explicitly revealed to have arranged the assassination of his former boss alongside Morello.
- Salieri is the only main antagonist in the Mafia series who isn't involved in a boss fight. Instead Sam does the honour of being the boss in the final mission on Salieri's orders.
- This also makes Salieri the only main antagonist in the series to not be killed, as he is instead sent to prison.
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Mafia Mafia II Falcone Crime Family:
Vito Scaletta |
Joe Barbaro |
Carlo Falcone |
Eddie Scarpa |
Antonio Balsamo |
Henry Tomasino |
Marty Santorelli
Empire Bay Triads:
Mr. Chu |
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