The Dark Psychology of Tony Soprano 

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He’s evil but somehow lovable and relatable at the same time. That’s the genius of his character.

The one thing we know about Tony Soprano is that he never had the makings of a varsity athlete

Tony was a depressed sociopath. Because his mother didn't give him the love he needed, he always felt a sense of not being good enough. This caused him to put others down to boost himself up. Although after seeing the hurt he caused, it made him feel more depressed. The cycle continued over and over.

It would be interesting to see the Dark Psychology of Christopher Moltisanti as well.

The sopranos had so much depth. This video is evidence of that

Tony Sopranos love of animals came from the fact that they could probably give him more unconditional love than any human being could, including in his own family. He had a love for horses and other animals, and cats, there is a scene with Paulie that is quite funny as Paulie hates cats but Tony shows a fondness towards them.

Tony had two worlds: the outside world and organized crime world and Tony really didn't have any desire to hurt those (physically) in the outside world, but once you entered "his" world it was different

I think what he was doing with Ralph was subtley telling him "You fucked up cowboy. This is your mess, not mine. Clean it up whatever way you think is best. You wanted to be Capo so bad, now you have to accept responsibility" Plus he didn't want Jackie Jr's blood on his hands.

Tony is a villian no doubt but he's also a victim in a cycle of violence and abuse. He could've been a great man if he was born with the right oppotunities and a less abusive mother. As much of bad guy he is he did break the cycle. His daughter was studying law and his son even though rocky became associated with film.

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The best way to describe Tony is lawful evil. A Lawful Evil character is an evil character who either tries to impose or uphold a lawful system on others without regard for their wishes, and/or adheres to a particular code. They believe in order, but mostly because they believe it is the best way of realizing their evil wishes.

The two tonys reminds me of the quote from the director’s cut of Apocalypse Now-“Don’t you see… there’s two of you. One who kills and one who loves.”

I had a mother like Livia. She was passive aggressive and a rageaholic. In response, I became a overachiever, I only cared that she knew so I could rub it in her face. I was determined to achieve more than she ever could. I was obsessed with winning...it got to the point where I convinced myself that I had to win something every day.

Of course its an insanely in depth review of sopranos lore and a very insightful knowledge source for dark psychology as seen in the Sopranos. However, let me just say Your Production Quality is insanely good! Im grateful I have found your channel.

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What an amazingly done and in depth video on the workings of Tony's mind. Thank you for all the effort you put into it. 🙂

Tony's not a psychopath, he's a sociopath. Psychopaths are born (nature) and sociopaths are made (nurture).

"The dark triad is recognized by top practicioners in the field" shows a clip of Jordan Peterson on Joe Rogan. Lmao.

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I like how these videos give us a deeper in site on different characters would love to see one on jax teller from sons of anarchy keep up the good work

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I never noticed how much Tony's mother in Saints of New Jersey looks strikingly resembles his wife in the main series.

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Truly, absolutely, and definitely yes, he’s evil. 1. He lowers the standards of everyone around him. In business, love, his own expectations of himself. 2. He takes advantage of other peoples weaknesses and disadvantages for his own benefit. 3. He indulges recklessly and without shame or surcease in every moral sin and is enraged if held to account. 4. He has no respect for anything, from property to his marriage to money to his own health. His only code of loyalty is to himself and his own comfort. 5. He holds others to a standard never attains himself. He demands they listen, be loyal, pay him without complaint, and never talk to anyone outside the “family,” yet he not once does exhibit these behaviors.

One of Tony's best deeds imo is that he felt sorry for the woman Ralph killed, and that he was trying to avenge her... we notice this when he said: "She was a beautiful creature ! What did she ever do yo you ?" When he killed Ralph

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can you do kanan stark he has alot of dark psychology he killed his son and a old lady.

I very recently got through your content relating to Top Boy, real top notch stuff there too! Awesome that you are creating Sopranos content!! Will there be more Sopranos content to follow this?

Crab in the bucket mentality I love that! New information shared

Love your videos bro in a future video can you do a dark psychology on Christopher Moltisanti

Really good analysis

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Really good video. The psychology of The Sopranos is absolutely astounding in terms of human behaviour.

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Another awesome video analysis. Please do one on "Vincent", Tom Cruise's character in COLLATERAL.

Of course he was. He was a mobster. They all are evil monsters.

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Honestly it’s as simple as Tony wanted to be the good guy. Unfortunately he only knew how to be a bad guy.

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Tony had all the makings of a varsity Sociopath.

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Elvis tried this...he convinced Sonny West to put a hit on Mike Stone. Mike Stone was a karate instructor he hired to train his wife. They started an affair, she ran off to live with him, took his daughter across the country. Stone was even put up by Priscilla to tell Elvis to leave her alone or he couldn't see his child. This angered him and he wanted revenge. Sonny West said he felt as though he was hypnotized and he found himself arranging the hit. Just minutes before it could be carried out, Elvis called it off. Mike Stone was mere minutes was being shot to death.

Walter White is a good man who sometimes does evil things Tony Soprano is an evil man who sometimes does good things Breaking Bad is a story about how evil will a man become Sopranos is a story about how evil a man will reveal himself to be

This is your magnum Opus Tony soprano is an amazing character and James Gandolfini portrays him exceptionally

He reflects a ruthless capitalistic masculinity but he doesn’t appear to get any glee from causing pain to others like an evil person would.

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He borrows $200,000 from hash and then you actually thinks about killing him instead of paying him you turned out to be a real bad guy Tony

The beginning of the video is amazing

Tony warned Ralph to never make another fat joke. He made one about Tony and was punished for it. The horse was irrelevant.

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He was a scumbag lmao but we gotta to see all the positive things about him too so we’re able to empathize

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On the topic of Jackie Jr and the way Tony went about having the hit done, it's worth mentioning that due to recent events, there is also an increased emphasis on not *directly* saying anything at all, for Tony. The whole point of the situation he's set himself up in is for him not to be considered the top dog, and the possibility of a wiretap is everpresent, especially with Pussy and whatnot in very recent memory

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It always kills me when I see people say characters are either (inherently) good or evil and fail to actually pick up the nuances involved. For all it's flaws one thing the "Many Saints of Newark" film does mad well is show us that most of Tony's memories from the show were very inaccurate and that he was a fairly normal child. The antisocial personality traits and behaviors escalated over time just as we see in the show and early on we even see him resist em. But as the show goes on it's like one barrier after another breaks til it finally becomes something like "anything goes" for T. So he starts out a relatively normal kid in a somewhat extreme environment. He has to cope with this environment to survive and one mechanism is to try to function within it. Once these things become normalized it's easier to see how antisocial personality traits and behaviors become a regular thing and get worse with time. It hurts Tony to have someone go to the Feds and it hurts Tony to kill a friend so the best answer is to dehumanize the friend, lay the blame on the friend, and depersonalize the situation as much as possible while compartmentalizing the relationship into a "friend" period prior to the betrayal and "rat" period afterwards so that he's doing something he has to do which isn't his fault to someone that isn't even human. Much of Tony's income comes from the misery of others be it rip off stocks, usury, dept collection, extortion, murder for hire, tax scams that funnel resources from those that need it most, etc, and knowing that would be hard to live with for most pro-social people so to cope a person would use a number of tactics that effectively function as, or are, antisocial personality traits. When I was young and in the streets gang banging, pulling stick-ups, selling poison to my own community and all that I couldn't care and feel all that so I became numb to it all and compartmentalized while rationalizing it as much as possible, dehumanizing people, and depersonalizing. BUT once I got a older, moved, and was outta that environment it didn't take long for a lotta that to start to crack. It was like I spent years with some very significant antisocial traits but was able to shake it initially just by exiting the environment that made me that way and then consciously as it was better for me to feel even the bad parts than live in this world of selective empathy and all that. And I've seen the same thing play out in a number of other people. It's mad logical and from what I've seen supported by the evidence and my own lived experience. It's a coping mechanism. Some people are born with antisocial personality traits and some people develop em as a means of survival in a particular environment. Tony always struck me as the latter, it just reached a tipping point at the end and got even more ugly. But it's entirely possible that in another environment with different influences he is a fairly normal person. This is one of the few videos I've seen on the subject that acknowledges that.

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