which death from The Wire affected you the most?

[LeftyLuchini]

Bodie - dude went out like a soldier, mad heart

Cheese - when Slim popped dude, saw it coming, that was a character I was like when is some1 go pop his markass already, and was glad when Slim shut dat nigga up real quick 4 tryna justify his grimyness


This shit rite here tho was crazy, the way they were str8 courting Mike to be down, talking about you ride wit us you're family. And of course dude din't have much choice for his and his younger brother's safety.

Plus the way Chris went in, it showed the roots of his own psychopathic behavior, and at the same time the humanity he had for Mike and his bro. (The way he looked at Mike when Mike was like yo I just want him gone.)

When Chris wentoff, even Snoop was on pause like loll look at 3:10 til the rest of the scene this assassin bitch was all shocked and shit!!! gr8 scene
Then Mike looked all happy and at peace when his mom came home without finding Bug's father. shit was twisted

i think thats the first time snoop see chris act emotionally about a killing.
like chris took every piece of inner turmoil out on dude.
i think that hit had snoop wondering more about who chris really is.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

THIS is what gets me. knowing what kind of game they were in, why didnt Joe bounce IMMEDIATELY upon realizing he was in danger? why did he HAVE to get things in order first???

when i KNOW i'm dealing with some grimy underhanded double dealing back stabbing untrustworthy murdering motherfuckers, at the first WHIFF of some bullshit i am SO out the MEMORY of me would be hazy.

did we EVER see Prop Joe order a hit on anyone???

dude seemed to be beyond that.

joe was a snake and set people up to get murdered indirectly. like how he tried to set omar up and other times as well

joe was being joe, the same as he always been. which is why they call him proposition joe. he thought with reason he could do whatever he wanted
which is why when i saw the dark knight, and when the butler told the story bout the thief that stole diamonds for no reason and how sometimes they wanted to just watch the world burn... marlo popped into my head
you can't reason with someone who doesn't care
and wants you dad...joe found that out.

Prop Joe was a dirtbag who didn't realize conning someone goes both ways. Joe was so terrified of Marlo, he gave him his connect, his last item worth trading like it was nothing.

i said that already
and nobody on the show is a saint
NOBODY

had to be done.
realize what marlo said when PJ said he'll disappear.
marlo knew PJ couldnt stay inactive for long.
marlo was a livewire who was one of the closet to joe.
marlo knew joe woulda eventually had him killed, after he distanced himself by 'retiring'.
reagrdless on what marlo was,
he was one smart and calculating young nigga.
i bet his IQ score is at the genius level.

im not disputing the reasoning
im just saying someone normal wouldn't do that
and there is a difference between doing it
and what he did lol
for sure he was, cause even through all of this shit he STILL made it out on top with the money and no charges

but went right back to the corner
he had stringers dream
and wanted no part of it

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

im not disputing the reasoning
im just saying someone normal wouldn't do that
and there is a difference between doing it
and what he did lol
for sure he was, cause even through all of this shit he STILL made it out on top with the money and no charges

but went right back to the corner
he had stringers dream
and wanted no part of it

The Game is The Game. And like he told Prop Joe "you would be back to your mischief in no time". SMH at telling Marlo he better stay clean until the elections

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

The Game is The Game. And like he told Prop Joe "you would be back to your mischief in no time". SMH at telling Marlo he better stay clean until the elections

i agree with all of it
im mot upset about the death, just thought it was the most chilling of the series

 

[BigDaddyBuk]

joe was a snake and set people up to get murdered indirectly. like how he tried to set omar up and other times as well...

man i just watched the entire series, there was not one time Prop Joe tried to set up Omar. in fact, he was always saying how you dont fuck with Omar.

Joe was a business man, reminiscent of Ike Atkinson, a dealer who never used violence to get the job done, and was might have been the most successful dealer in US history.

the only life he put in danger was Avon, when he gave Omar a pager number that Avon trusted.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

man i just watched the entire series, there was not one time Prop Joe tried to set up Omar. in fact, he was always saying how you dont fuck with Omar.

Joe was a business man, reminiscent of Ike Atkinson, a dealer who never used violence to get the job done, and was might have been the most successful dealer in US history.

the only life he put in danger was Avon, when he gave Omar a pager number that Avon trusted.

he did set up omar lmao
and he set up marlo too

he's the one that put him onto the card game that omar hit and took the ring from marlo setting forth their entire beef

From season 2

Joe sets up a meeting between Bell and Omar Little, and Bell tricks Omar into shooting Mouzone. This elaborate deception achieves the shared goals of Joe and Bell: it drives Mouzone back to New York and forces Barksdale to grudgingly agree to the drugs-for-territory exchange with arch-rival Joe.

From season 4

Joe manipulates Omar Little again, inducing him to rob a card game which Stanfield attends, by pretending that he wanted to make amends for his involvement in the Stringer Bell/Brother Mouzone incident. After Omar robs the card game, Joe offers Stanfield another meeting and claims he could protect him against such surprises in the future

don't test me on the wire man, i know it in and out

 

[BigDaddyBuk]

he did set up omar lmao
and he set up marlo too

he's the one that put him onto the card game that omar hit and took the ring from marlo setting forth their entire beef

From season 2


From season 4


don't test me on the wire man, i know it in and out

i read those wiki pages before i answered the last time, and it still stands, at no time did Joe set anyone up TO BE KILLED, outside of Avon.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

i read those wiki pages before i answered the last time, and it still stands, at no time did Joe set anyone up TO BE KILLED, outside of Avon.

He deserved it. After Omar sold him back the stuff he had stolen, he charged Marlo an extra 10 points on the packages. When Omar first robbed Marlo at the card game, Prop Joe try to arrange the return of the stuff for 30 points. That's not a proposition, that's extortion. And in that game that's tangibly to shooting a man in the head.

 

[BigDaddyBuk]

He deserved it. After Omar sold him back the stuff he had stolen, he charged Marlo an extra 10 points on the packages. When Omar first robbed Marlo at the card game, Prop Joe try to arrange the return of the stuff for 30 points. That's not a proposition, that's extortion. And in that game that's tangibly to shooting a man in the head.

no one on the show was a saint, and in the drug game its all about making deals that benefit YOU.

but Joe wasn't setting people up to get killed, as that shit was bad for business. manipulating Marlo into coming into the co-op, showing him how to clean his money TWO DIFFERENT WAYS, hell, Joe was trying to make civilize the fucking beast in Marlo. if everyone worked WITH Joe things would've been well with all. but as soon as Marlo tried to take over EVERYTHING fell apart.

Marlo represented chaos. even when the DA forced Marlo out of the game he HAD to go take over a corner...just to STAND on it. yeah, he ran some dope boys off the corner for no other reason than to say he DID it. that's where he felt most at home.

Joe made sense of the game, and tried to make it work above the petty insatiable greed of those who were in it.

again, he didnt know when to cut ties and be out.

 

[Sampson]

None of them, it's fiction. Man up.

 

[Koach]

1. Omar -He kept all the real crooks honest

2. Stringer Bell -He was so much more of a cerebral hustler than a street dude, you just didn't expect it.

3. Bodie -He just looked like a dude that would be on the corner forever.


Hon Men *Prop Joe -He was more in control than String.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Marlo represented chaos. even when the DA forced Marlo out of the game he HAD to go take over a corner...just to STAND on it. yeah, he ran some dope boys off the corner for no other reason than to say he DID it. that's where he felt most at home.

Marlo is built for that shit, I don't remember the exact scene, but I do remember Marlo coming to terms with his reality: He was willing to die a Soldier but this was his time to reign supreme.

The only thing bad was there was no Stringer Bell character to get rid of a boss's nephew for Prop Joe as for Avon Barksdale.

The thread would've been better if it asked who deserved to get deaded the most? I think it would be hard to choose between Stringer and Cheese.

 

[dtownsfinest]

None of them, it's fiction. Man up.

Nigga say man up and he got a picture of Prince as his personal pic.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

i read those wiki pages before i answered the last time, and it still stands, at no time did Joe set anyone up TO BE KILLED, outside of Avon.

outside of avon...but then that goes against what you just said
cause he tried to set avon up

and when he sent omar to the game you don't think that was indirectly trying to get someone killed?
or the stringer thing? cmon man that's clear as day

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

no one on the show was a saint, and in the drug game its all about making deals that benefit YOU.

but Joe wasn't setting people up to get killed, as that shit was bad for business. manipulating Marlo into coming into the co-op, showing him how to clean his money TWO DIFFERENT WAYS, hell, Joe was trying to make civilize the fucking beast in Marlo. if everyone worked WITH Joe things would've been well with all. but as soon as Marlo tried to take over EVERYTHING fell apart.

Marlo represented chaos. even when the DA forced Marlo out of the game he HAD to go take over a corner...just to STAND on it. yeah, he ran some dope boys off the corner for no other reason than to say he DID it. that's where he felt most at home.

Joe made sense of the game, and tried to make it work above the petty insatiable greed of those who were in it.

again, he didnt know when to cut ties and be out.

let that go
he was setting people up to be put in the worst situations and if they got killed he was fine with it
everything he did was to benefit him and luckily people didn't die
but the intent was CLEARLY there.
you give him credit for being smart and having business sense
so how come you don't think it crossed his mind on those situations that 1 or everyone could die?
it did
and he was fine with that.

 

[dtownsfinest]

Marlo is built for that shit, I don't remember the exact scene, but I do remember Marlo coming to terms with his reality: He was willing to die a Soldier but this was his time to reign supreme.

The only thing bad was there was no Stringer Bell character to get rid of a boss's nephew for Prop Joe as for Avon Barksdale.

The thread would've been better if it asked who deserved to get deaded the most? I think it would be hard to choose between Stringer and Cheese.

Stringer wasn't any more crooked than the next nigga on this show. Cheese okay. He turned his back on family and wasn't loyal to ANYONE. Everything String did was for a reason. Even killing Deangelo. He didn't just do shit because he could.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

Marlo is built for that shit, I don't remember the exact scene, but I do remember Marlo coming to terms with his reality: He was willing to die a Soldier but this was his time to reign supreme.

The only thing bad was there was no Stringer Bell character to get rid of a boss's nephew for Prop Joe as for Avon Barksdale.

The thread would've been better if it asked who deserved to get deaded the most? I think it would be hard to choose between Stringer and Cheese.

if that were the question
none of em deserved to live
all of em had dirt

and marlo was the new breed
i just hate to see who comes up after him

 

[dtownsfinest]

if that were the question
none of em deserved to live
all of em had dirt

and marlo was the new breed
i just hate to see who comes up after him

Imagine if it was that little stupid ass lil' boy Kenard. Probably wouldn't even make it to 20 with his mouth.

 

[BigDaddyBuk]

Nigga say man up and he got a picture of Prince as his personal pic.

sarcasm, man...he was bring sarcastic.

outside of avon...but then that goes against what you just said
cause he tried to set avon up

and when he sent omar to the game you don't think that was indirectly trying to get someone killed?
or the stringer thing? cmon man that's clear as day

i always put that caveat out there, but it doesnt negate the fact that Joe wasn't a wholesale mass fucking murderer like Marlo, Chris and Snoop. he wasn't a jailhouse assassin hiring snake like Stringer. he wasn't killing girlfriends and witnesses like Avon. when he could've killed Cheese he refused to move against him. he didnt set Omar up to get killed...in fact he NEVER crossed Omar, and always warned against it.

yes, Joe manipulated motherfuckers, but it was all to keep folks from going to WAR.

out of all those murdering motherfuckers, Joe was the ONLY one who always tried to keep the peace.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Imagine if it was that little stupid ass lil' boy Kenard. Probably wouldn't even make it to 20 with his mouth.

Kenard is a legend in the making. He robbed Namond blind, and took out the immortal Omar.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

How do we really know though?

sarcasm, man...he was bring sarcastic.



i always put that caveat out there, but it doesnt negate the fact that Joe wasn't a wholesale mass fucking murderer like Marlo, Chris and Snoop. he wasn't a jailhouse assassin hiring snake like Stringer. he wasn't killing girlfriends and witnesses like Avon. when he could've killed Cheese he refused to move against him. he didnt set Omar up to get killed...in fact he NEVER crossed Omar, and always warned against it.

yes, Joe manipulated motherfuckers, but it was all to keep folks from going to WAR.

out of all those murdering motherfuckers, Joe was the ONLY one who always tried to keep the peace.

 

[Les W]

Wallace was a DRY SNITCH .... on top of that he got out and was SAFE ... they told him he would be KILLED if he went back to the corner .... and he still went back ... hard to feel sorry for that dude personally

Stringer, D'angelo and Bodie were the characters I liked the most that got killed ... we had a thread back in the day on Stringer's death

Peep this joint if you missed it
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[Les W]

1. Omar -He kept all the real crooks honest

2. Stringer Bell -He was so much more of a cerebral hustler than a street dude, you just didn't expect it.

3. Bodie -He just looked like a dude that would be on the corner forever.


Hon Men *Prop Joe -He was more in control than String.

c/s

Prop Joe got stabbed in the back .... by grimy ass cheese ... dude was a snake but he went out like a G ... and played the game the right way imo

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

Imagine if it was that little stupid ass lil' boy Kenard. Probably wouldn't even make it to 20 with his mouth.

kenard is the new marlo
he was just too little and got handled by mike
but you saw him punking namond, the only thing keeping him down was his size
if he hit a growth spurt...it would have been a wrap
cause he had that little man complex and was really about it (killed omar)
i mean if he lived to see 16, bmore would be too dangerous to even live in

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

kenard is the new marlo
he was just too little and got handled by mike
but you saw him punking namond, the only thing keeping him down was his size
if he hit a growth spurt...it would have been a wrap
cause he had that little man complex and was really about it (killed omar)
i mean if he lived to see 16, bmore would be too dangerous to even live in

When he gets out at 18 it's a wrap.

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

i always put that caveat out there, but it doesnt negate the fact that Joe wasn't a wholesale mass fucking murderer like Marlo, Chris and Snoop. he wasn't a jailhouse assassin hiring snake like Stringer. he wasn't killing girlfriends and witnesses like Avon. when he could've killed Cheese he refused to move against him. he didnt set Omar up to get killed...in fact he NEVER crossed Omar, and always warned against it.

yes, Joe manipulated motherfuckers, but it was all to keep folks from going to WAR.

out of all those murdering motherfuckers, Joe was the ONLY one who always tried to keep the peace.

im not putting him in their lane, im just simply saying he wasn't clean and tried to avoid murders, like he was above it cause he wasn't
that's all im saying he had his dirt too and people could have and should have died behind shit he set up..they just didn't sometimes that happens.

and he manipulated people so that it could be to his advantage period. he cared about HIMSELF going to war that's it.
only when the heat came on him did he even care what was going on with the other side of town. far as he was concerned if they murdered each other he was ok he can just go ahead and move in
but when HIS shit was being messed with thats when the co-op shit etc etc happened to try and calm HIS operation down
nothing more nothing less.
and if he made a profit even better
he aint have shit to say about marlo and the bodies cause nobody was finding them and there was no more heat so it was fine
after they found them THEN he had to do something
self preservation was always joe's angle.. which is why i can't put him on some other level like he was trying to make everyone get along for the sake of being brothers in the game, cause that wasn't it
in the end, long as he was good didn't matter
when he was about to die, he didn't say we're brothers
he said yo ill give u my connect
yo i did this
yo ill go away
just don't kill me..

and like i said marlo is just a differnt animal period. most fascinating character on the show to me

 

[largebillsonlyplease]

When he gets out at 18 it's a wrap.

way too raw
and he doesn't have any reason to respect anyone
all the dudes were older than him
and he was running them
all the new dudes that are gonna start are gonna be behind him since he killed omar
all the kids in school who turn to drugs at 14-15 gonna be too late he was out there at age 4
all the old heads dead
i mean the city is his

 

[Mr Nice]

When the series ended

What he said ​

 

[THREAD_CRITIC]

Crazy it got canned for low ratings yet the box set is selling like hot cakes

 

[Gye78]

This shit rite here tho was crazy, the way they were str8 courting Mike to be down, talking about you ride wit us you're family. And of course dude din't have much choice for his and his younger brother's safety.

Plus the way Chris went in, it showed the roots of his own psychopathic behavior, and at the same time the humanity he had for Mike and his bro. (The way he looked at Mike when Mike was like yo I just want him gone.)

When Chris wentoff, even Snoop was on pause like loll look at 3:10 til the rest of the scene this assassin bitch was all shocked and shit!!! gr8 scene
Then Mike looked all happy and at peace when his mom came home without finding Bug's father. shit was twisted

Yep was definitely the most disturbing death

 

[Rick Spanish]

Crazy it got canned for low ratings yet the box set is selling like hot cakes

Because most of the shows fanbase downloaded all of the shows, but bought the DVD for the extra features.

 

[LURK DAWG]

man i just watched the entire series, there was not one time Prop Joe tried to set up Omar. in fact, he was always saying how you dont fuck with Omar.

Joe was a business man, reminiscent of Ike Atkinson, a dealer who never used violence to get the job done, and was might have been the most successful dealer in US history.

the only life he put in danger was Avon, when he gave Omar a pager number that Avon trusted.

Agreed Prop Joe was a business man...but he was also snake of monumenal proportions...

He set up Marlo to get robbed at the card game to manipulate him into joining the New Day Co-op...

You say he wasnt DIRECTLY esponsible for getting anyone murked...BUTwhen old face Andre went to Joe for help, he shorted Andre on the cost for his corner store, then promised him a ride outta town... only to sell Andre out to Marlo, Chris, and Snoop!

So to say he wasnt responsible for anyone's death is mistaken..he was snake who went up against a bigger snake, and lost...period!

 

[crossovernegro]

Hell yeah.... thanks man...good info!

That was Little Kevin, he fucked up by NOT telling Lex himself that his "girl" wanted to see him (it was a set-up for Chris and Snoop) he instead told Randy (the kid who sold candy) to tell him and Randy ended up telling the police.

Marlo had Chris and Snoop take care of him because he didn't follow instructions, Bodie however remained pissed @ Marlo because he thought that he had him killed "because he could".

 

[crossovernegro]

02:47 mark..... damn, that look on his face had me laughing out loud just now.

Turnabout is fair play!! Yall made me go and look up the Little Kevin scene with Marlo....
Guess what? Bodie is the one who advised Little Kevin to go talk to him in the first place





Naaaaw!! I sweeeaaarrr!!

 

[onyxfemme]

I said the same thing

Snoop- "How my hair look" went out like a G

Bodie just cuz he had been there most of the seasons

See.....I didnt wanna say nothing....

Nigga say man up and he got a picture of Prince as his personal pic.