I’ll go first:

  1. Tony Soprano - The Sopranos
  2. Enoch “Nucky” Thompson
  3. Thomas Shelby - Peaky Blinders
  • xtr0n
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    Not the main character but Gus Fring was a remarkably intelligent gangster.

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      Basically all of the high up characters in the Gilliverse are super smart. Mike, Walt, Jimmy, Lalo, Gus, Hector. Eladio and Tuco are the only ones I can think of who ever exhibit any amount of stupid

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      SPOILERS but Reason why I knocked Tommy Shelby down a bit is because my wife and I are rewatching it now, and I kinda thought Tommy telling John it’s okay that he threatened the sons dad was dumb. That event got Grace killed.

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    Not a main character per se, but Stringer Bell from the wire.

    Tom Hagen from the Godfather (not a show, but whatever!)

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    Probably some supervillain. It’s pretty easy to write a character that thinks impossibly far ahead if you don’t mind being campy.