The first thread was only part of a larger research I've been doing, mainly to keep me busy until I go to a tropical paradise for the holidays.
This is the link to Vol. 1
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So, the whole point with the hubris meant that the bad boy distinct sign is to rebel in a cocky fashion against everything, even the gods. That rebellion lead to nemesis
Wikipedia again:
Nemesis (in Greek, Νέμεσις), also called Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia ("the goddess of Rhamnous"), at her sanctuary at Rhamnous, north of Marathon, in Greek mythology was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess. The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νείμειν, meaning "to give what is due". The Romans equated the Greek Nemesis as Invidia (Aronoff 2003).
Cockiness leads to hubris, Hubris leads to nemesis.
So we can start to build the bad boy fom its foundations. Everything starts with a guy acting with excessive pride and cockyness. Obviously that will lead to reckless behavior. If you feel like Superman sooner or later you will be trying to stop bullets with your bare hands. Eventually your confidence is going to surpass your skills, and you'll get what you deserve.
That's in my humbe opinion the main attribute of the bad boy, the one that makes him attractive for women; he's got danger written all over.
Lets talk now about Vincenzo Gibaldi, and his super hot girlfriend (wife after a while) Louise Rolfe, the famous starlet of the 1920's.
She's hot right? and he is a really ugly guy.
Ok, maybe not in the same way a Victoria Secret's model is, but that girl's got some looks.
Here is another pic, so you can see some 1920's bathig suits.
She even has some Drew Barrymore thing going on, Why is that guy with such a hot chick?
Well, old Vincenzo was also known as Machinegun Jack McGurn. He was Al Capone's top triggerman and ace Thompson machinegunner. He is known for the St. Valentine's massacre, in 1929, where he planned the attempted killing of the North Side gang leader George "Bugs" Moran.
McGurn remained free from suspicion, largely due to his "blonde alibi" - the nickname of Louise Rolfe (the hot chick) who claimed they spent the whole day together.
Wikipedia says how this guy ended up:
Machine Gun McGurn, impoverished and abandoned by his fellow gangsters, was assassinated on February 14, 1936, at the second-floor, Avenue Recreation Bowling Alley, at 805 N. Milwaukee Avenue (at Chicago Avenue). McGurn, wearing rented shoes, was shot and killed by two men with machine-guns. They left a note near his body that read:
"You've lost your job, You've lost your dough, Your jewels and handsome houses, But things could be worse, you know, You haven't lost your trousers."
It is not known for certain who McGurn's killers were, but research and speculation by criminologists suggest two equally likely theories: That George "Bugs" Moran, the very man Jack had tried to kill years before, gunned him down in revenge of the murder of his gang exactly seven years later, to the day, or that the South Side mob under Nitti murdered him, as McGurn (a heavy drinker and a braggart) had become a source of constant bad press and embarrassment to the mob, which, under Nitti, was striving for a much lower public profile than it had under Al Capone.
Nemesis is a bitch right? He got it coming, the punishment for hubris.
