10. Tommy DeVito Kills For Shoeshines And Mistaken Drinks Orders Goodfellas
Joe Pescis Tommy is terrifying, and fortunately extremely dumb. The man suffers violent overreactions like you or I suffer from social awkwardness many times and often. Fortunately, in such a wildly violent world as New York underworld, this can earn a man a reputation. Unfortunately, if youre as ill-judged in your moodswings as Tommy, it can earn you a body bag as well. There were just so many times when Tommy couldve stepped back from the edge at any point, and Im going to focus on two key incidents. Firstly, he kills someone for getting his drink order wrong. Weve all had this done to us, and we all know its annoying. But usually, it doesnt get past stern word annoying, not unprovoked homicide annoying. However, Tommy possesses no such sliding scale of fury, and just offs a bloke for no real reason at all. It would be this moment that you distance yourself from the man, or probably whack him yourself clearly he doesnt know how to control himself, and would be naught but a liability to you. However, they let him get away with it, and he later beats a guy named Billy Batts to death for making a crack about him shining shoes when he was younger. Hey, weve all been insulted in our pasts, and if Batts was your average street hoodlum, I suppose this wouldve been ok, the sort of thing mobsters would talk about in hushed whispers when they describe the legend of the man. Unfortunately, Billy was a made man with the Gambino crime family, landing our main trio in a position where they could all be pulverised for his overreacting stupidity. If someone had just sat the guy down and told him probably at gunpoint, because its the only thing he really understands that he was being a colossal asshat, then perhaps he wouldnt have been shot later. Mind you, if he hadnt been, we wouldnt have half the memorable scenes from this damn movie.