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| “ | Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy - now that's fun! | „ |
| ~ Top Dollar |
Top Dollar is a major antagonist in James O'Barr's graphic novel The Crow, and the main villain of the 1994 film adaptation of the same name.
In the film, he was portrayed by Michael Wincott, who also played Michael Korda in Metro, Philo Gant in Strange Days, Guy of Gisbourne in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Scroop in Disney's Treasure Planet. In the Stairway to Heaven series, he was portrayed by John Pyper Ferguson.
Biography
Graphic novel
In O'Barr's graphic novel, Top Dollar is a small-time drug dealer and an affiliate of a gang of thugs, who murdered Eric Draven and his girlfriend Shelley Webster for fun.
One year later, Eric is brought back from the dead by a mysterious crow and seeks vengeance against his and Shelley's murderers. He finds Top Dollar at a meeting with his men, and shoots him in the head, killing him.
Film
In the film adaptation, Top Dollar is a mobster who controls Detroit's street gangs, along with his half-sister and lover Myca. Every year on Devil's Night, his men loot and rob the city, setting several buildings on fire to intimidate law enforcement.
He is responsible for the deaths of both Eric Draven and his girlfriend, Shelly Webster. When Shelly started a petition to fight unjust tenant eviction in a building Top Dollar owned, he sent a gang of his men to rape her and drive her out of her house on Devil's Night. Unfortunately, Eric came home that night as they were raping her, which resulted in both of them getting killed.
One year later, a mysterious crow brings Eric back to life, and he sets about to avenge his and Shelley's death by killing the men responsible. He eliminates Top Dollar's lieutenants until there was only one left — a low-level minion named Skank. When Eric leaves one of his henchmen, Gideon, alive as a message, he informs Top Dollar that his store was destroyed by a man with a big bird who referred to himself as Eric Draven. Top Dollar is skeptical but ultimately kills Gideon due to his sarcastic and disrespectful behavior towards him and Myca by driving a sword through his throat.
As Top Dollar holds a meeting with the city’s other gang leaders, Eric breaks in and demands that they hand Skank over. A gunfight ensues, and Eric kills Skank, along with several of the gang leaders. Top Dollar escapes with Myca and his right-hand man, Grange.
Grange kidnaps Eric and Shelly's friend and surrogate daughter Sarah when she leaves the cemetery and takes her to the abandoned church (where Top Dollar and Myca are hiding out), forcing Eric back into action to rescue her. After Grange and Myca's deaths, Eric ends up fighting Top Dollar on the roof of the church.
The mob boss claims responsibility for what happened to Eric and Shelly, saying that nothing happens in Detroit without his "say-so". However, before he can kill him again, Eric gives Top Dollar the "30 hours of pain" that Shelly suffered (which he absorbed from police sergeant Albrecht). Top Dollar then falls from the roof and is impaled on the horns of a gargoyle.
Stairway to Heaven
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Personality
Top Dollar is a twisted, sociopathic, chaotic and perveted crime lord. He commits crime only for the fun, willing to turn Detroit into a nightmarish city and he is not really interested by the money or material gain, becoming tired of the money gained from his activities. He absolutely does not care for the pain and damage he causes. He also kills people without remorse, nonchalantly doing this to a sex worker and when he discovered she was dead, he simply saids : "I think we broke this one." The death of Eric's wife was not specifically commanded by him but when he learned his goons killed her, he took joy of that. However, he usually has a very polite disposition and he is quite charismatic and calm almost all the movie, rarely losing his temper, even when he is downright insulted and despised by Gideon, he keeps his cool and even agrees that he may not be "as big as he thinks." His villainous behavior seems to stem from his apparently abusive father, who was killed by Top Dollar, probably cause he growed tired from the abuse though knowing Top Dollar this was made up. He also seems to love his half-sister but in a twisted way cause he has no qualms of committing incest with her and he not mourned her when she was killed. Top Dollar is nevertheless courageous, shown when he braved the wrath of Daven by refusing to hand over his goon Skank.
Abilities
Master Tactician: Top Dollar runs his criminal empire from behind scenes.
Leadership:
Swordsmanship:
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Gallery
![(Eric: [points at Skank] I just want him.) "Well, you can't have him."](/wiki/File:Well_Cant_Have_Him.JPG.jpg "Well Cant Have Him.JPG.jpg (37 KB)")
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