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    Baby

Baby (Real proper noun: Miles)

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"They call. I go."

A boyfriend with a dear for music who works as the getaway driver for a rotating crew of bank robbers.


  • Action Survivor: Don't allow his scrawny build fool you: while he prefers not to fight if he has a choice, Baby'due south fully capable of using his quick wits and able-bodied physique to overcome danger, and he does know how to utilize a gun. That's not even getting into what he can practice backside the wheel.
  • Cryptic Disorder: He isn't mentally slow, merely Baby's intense focus, sensory issues, and trend to repeat film dialogue in conversations point this trope.
  • Anti-Hero: He'southward a getaway driver for a crew of psychotic bank robbers, only he's just doing information technology to piece of work off a debt for Doc. Too that, he is horrified when any of the members commit or try murder. Plus, he'due south a Nice Guy.
  • The Babe of the Bunch: The youngest member of Doc's coiffure. Even his code name is Baby.
  • Badass Driver: Practically a force of nature behind a cycle, regularly evading the cops.
  • Bad Liar: As Bats notes, he's a terrible liar.
  • Beware the Overnice Ones: Is a sweet lively kid but he's been working with hardenened criminals for years. He kills Bats when the robber goes besides far, and later has no effect shooting Buddy with his own gun when Debora is threatened.
  • Birds of a Feather: With Debora, as both are interested in music.
  • Gainsay Parkour: Shows off some skill when escaping the law on foot. Later on he uses it to safely leap over a speeding car when Buddy tries to ram him.
  • Cool Shades: Almost always wears a pair. He even has backups.
  • Cowardly Lion: Baby is soft-spoken, barely talks back, and is mostly concerned with getting out of heists alive. Considering his job, he needs to be badass at running abroad.

    Griff: Gotta hand it to you, totem pole. You lot're either difficult every bit nails. Or scared as shit. WHICH One IS Information technology?

  • Dark and Troubled Past: Before the car crash that took his parents' life and left him with tinnitus, Infant witnessed his father being abusive to his mother. Then, he was recruited past Medico to help steal money.
  • Decease Glare: He has several towards Bats and Buddy, shortly earlier he kills that character.
  • Disabled Love Interest: Inverted. Baby is this trope to Debora, as he's the main protagonist who also has tinnitus.
  • Disco Dan: Of a sort - Baby keeps his all-encompassing music collection on a serial of iPods, enough to have specific devices for certain moods. Too, his gear up-up for recording audio and mixing music rely on ancient Casio synthesizers and cassette tapes. It's later on revealed that his affinity for both technologies bound from two tragic keepsakes - his 1st Gen iPod that his parents gave him before the automobile crash that took their lives and a cassette recording of his mother'southward music.
  • The Dragon: To Doc as the most trusted fellow member of his coiffure and a constant presence at his heists.
  • Enfant Terrible: Md recruited him after stealing Doctor's machine at a very young age.
  • Establishing Graphic symbol Moment: In the opening heist, nosotros run into him as stoic and equanimous as the other robbers (except peradventure Darling). Equally presently as they enter the bank, Baby lets loose and starts dancing to his tunes, only pausing to flinch when he sees Griff firing a shotgun into the air.
  • Forced into Evil: He'due south the become-to getaway driver for a professional person criminal, but he'south merely doing information technology considering said professional criminal threatens his life and the lives of the people he loves.
  • Getaway Commuter: His profession, and he'due south damned good it.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has ii on his right eyebrow and ane on his correct cheek. All equally a outcome of the car crash.
  • Handicapped Badass: Baby has tinnitus, a temporary or long term condition that emits a ring, hum, fizz, or static in a person'due south head or ears. Babe wears earbuds in-guild to mask its effects. Even so, he is an incredible Badass Commuter with Fretfulness of Steel backside the bike, despite the suggestion that he'll have it forever and it seems severe.
  • Heel–Face Turn: The whole movie revolves around his.
  • Heroic BSoD: Later he sees Bats shoot a police officer, Baby sports a Chiliad-Yard Stare for a few significant moments, until Bats punches him to snap him out of information technology.
  • Meaningful Proper name: His existent proper name is Miles, which is pretty advisable for someone who loves the open road. Information technology also means "soldier", and he's very dangerous when push comes to shove.
  • Momma's Boy: Flashbacks of his childhood showed Infant was closer to his mother than his begetter for two reasons — His father would abuse his mother and Baby started loving music because of her. And when he brings upward his parents' death, he only states he misses his mother.
  • Mugging the Monster: He stole a machine from Doc when he was a child. As Md puts it, he let him do it just to picket the balls on the kid for stealing from him, then tracked him down, told him who he was and what he was capable of, and how much money Infant was at present indebted to him.
  • Prissy Guy: He's a friendly, good-hearted, sweet, and noble person who doesn't desire anything to do with crime.
  • Not So Stoic: He's a real goofball when he is away from his partners in crime.
  • The Quiet One: It'southward constantly lampshaded on how Babe hardly says a discussion, hence his codename: we're still waiting on his first words.
  • Real Men Wearable Pink: Carries around a pink, bedazzled iPod that has beloved songs on information technology.
  • Skewed Priorities: Babe'due south first and foremost concern is that his iPod or any other music-playing device is playing a rocking soundtrack for him to motility in sync to, even though he just fucked up a robbery, made a lot of wrong people aroused, and needs to become away from the cops.
  • Southern-Fried Genius: Baby is from the Atlanta expanse, which yous can hear in his slight vocal twang, and is also a very intelligent and creative guy.
  • Stealth How-do-you-do/Adieu: Baby proves surprisingly adept at this; disappearing while people'due south heads are turned outside the nursing habitation, outside the diner, and in the parking garage.
  • The Stoic: Keeps a poker confront when surrounded past Doc'south bank robbers.
  • Grand Shalt Not Kill: Baby hates killing and is very uncomfortable whenever his accomplices do it, at 1 point pushing Bats's shotgun abroad and so he tin can't hit a Badass Bystander. Subverted in the climax where he kills Bats and Buddy, although he hesitates for a while earlier killing the former and he only killed the latter to save himself and Debora.
  • Title Grapheme: He's the "Infant" in "Infant Driver".
  • Token Proficient Teammate: While he isn't an affections, he'southward a saint when compared to the ruthless Doc and his psychotic partners.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Although Baby is always an absolutely badass driver, he is genuinely afraid of Medico in the beginning and most of his character arc is nigh him being prepared to do the job and stand up up to his corrupt team members.
  • Tragic Keepsake: I of his iPods was given to him by his parents and he has an old cassette tape that features his mother singing.

    Debora

Debora

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"I wanna head west in a auto I tin can't afford with a plan I don't have."

A young waitress and Babe'south romantic involvement.


  • Birds of a Plumage: With Infant, as both are interested in music.
  • Crowbar Combatant: She attacks Buddy with a crowbar at the end, distracting him long enough for Baby to impale him.
  • Damsel in Distress: Becomes this when Buddy goes to her diner to look for Baby and kill her right in front of him if not for the sudden arrival of cops needing to use the toilet.
  • Establishing Grapheme Moment: Aside from the on-the-nose visual of a reddish heart appearing in her very first appearance to signify her every bit the Love Involvement, Babe starts noticing her in a more personal and romantic light when he hears her bustling a song his mother once sang. The remainder of the scene shows Debora to exist sociable and much alike Baby in terms of love for music.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Aureate: A pretty blonde waitress who's i of the nigh innocent and nicest characters in the movie.
  • I Will Wait for You: Later on Babe gets arrested, she writes to him and waits for his release.
  • Like Parent, Like Spouse: She bears a distinct (but non-squicky, generally) resemblance to Babe's female parent from his flashbacks. She also works at the diner his mother used to work at.
  • Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She gives Babe hope of a life outside of crime, and a hazard to beginning fresh.
  • Morality Pet: She makes Baby desire to reform and get out of the criminal offense group he'south in.
  • Nice Daughter: In all her scenes, she is friendly and sociable.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Has romantic feelings for Babe considering of his kind and gentle nature.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Afterwards spending much of the action scenes standing in the background, in the climax, she attacks Buddy with a crowbar to protect Baby.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: For well-nigh of the movie, Debora doesn't participate in any violence. The start time she does, it'south to protect Infant from Buddy.

    Doc

Doc

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"I get no pleasure in taking candy from Baby."

The mysterious kingpin of the rag-tag coiffure of bank robbers and a veteran criminal mastermind.


  • Anti-Villain: Can be interpreted equally a pocket-sized one, due to legitimately caring about Baby and pulling a Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Bad Boss: Zig-zagged in that while he threatens Baby into continuing to work for him later Baby'due south debt is paid off, it never goes beyond that. He even pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to try to save Infant and Debora from the cops and Buddy after sympathizing with their beloved.
  • Big Bad: The kingpin who organizes all of the robberies his goons bear out. Baby is trapped into working for him and wants out throughout the whole movie. However, he decides to assist Baby escape before beingness killed by Buddy.
  • The Chessmaster: He's a criminal mastermind who plans out robbery jobs, assigns each crew member to specific roles, and tries to be prepared for every eventuality.
  • Decoy Antagonist: The picture's early scenes and promotional material seem to exist setting up Doc equally the Treacherous Quest Giver who'll somewhen turn on Baby. However, Doctor ultimately has a modify of heart and pulls a Heroic Cede defending Baby and Deborah from a deranged and vengeful Buddy, the film'due south true Final Boss.
  • Establishing Character Moment: I of the outset things he does is defend Baby from Griff, asserting that he is reliable and an invaluable part of his criminal endeavors.
  • Fifty-fifty Evil Has Loved Ones:
    • His human relationship with his nephew implies this. He's proud when the kid'southward able to hands analyze the number of guards, cameras and workers on a site Doc plans on robbing, and apparently watches Monsters, Inc. with him.
    • While his relationship with Baby may have been overly antagonistic, Dr. shows he cares well-nigh the young human being after pulling a Heroic Sacrifice to protect both Infant and Debora.
    • He mentions having been in love like Baby is with Debora at one point.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His name is not given, and is always chosen "Doc".
  • For Desire of a Boom: If he simply leaves Baby alone, his eventual downfall seems avoidable. Simply past strong-arming him back into work for him, information technology leads to the botched post office job and his death at the hands (Or wheels) of a furious Buddy.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Gets shot by the surviving corrupted cops then ran over past Buddy to protect Baby and Debora.
  • I Gave My Word: When Medico told Baby that he was nearly done paying him off, he meant information technology. He takes Baby's 1 Concluding Job declaration a fleck poorly, but he's genuinely excited that Infant volition finally exist making existent coin from their work.
  • Made of Iron: Despite existence clearly past his prime, Doc takes a handgun circular to the shoulder and a shotgun smash to the back and stays continuing to provide a distraction for Infant and Debora.
  • Noble Demon: He at get-go seems similar a stereotypical criminal kingpin, formal in tone just cold-blooded and more than willing to murder people for failing him or refusing his job offers. And then it turns out his polite demeanor isn't actually feigned, he genuinely does accept some treat Baby, and not only helps him escape with Debora but gives them money to first their new lives and sacrifices his own life to save theirs.
  • Rasputinian Decease: Shot twice by shotgun-wielding Mooks, then run over twice by Buddy.
  • Resignations Not Accustomed: Dr. seems to find information technology agreeable that Baby thought he could just walk away from his enterprise after paying him off. Even his Implied Death Threat regarding Debora and Joseph is delivered rather congenially, which foreshadows his soft spot for Baby long before his Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Shame If Something Happened:

    Doc: That waitress you're dating is cute. Let'south proceed it that way.

  • Shipper on Deck: I of the reasons he decides to help Baby is considering the latter'due south romance with Debora reminded Doc of a honey he had in the past.
  • Shotguns Are Merely Better: Pulls out a Ithaca 37 "Stakeout" shotgun when he clears the style for Baby and Debora.
  • Smug Snake: Conspicuously enjoys projecting the prototype of a criminal mastermind, only regularly hires people of questionable competence for his jobs, including Griff, Bats, and especially JD.
  • The Stoic: Almost everything he says is spoken with Kevin Spacey's patented dry out monotone.
  • You Accept Failed Me: JD makes ii big mistakes during his one job, and Medico ends up killing him for it. It's implied he also killed Griff.

    Bats

Leon Jefferson Three a.k.a. Bats

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"The moment you take hold of feelings is the moment you catch a bullet."

The impulsive gun-slinging cohort of the bank robbing crew.


  • Asshole Victim: He is a consummate bastard towards everyone and does not hesitate to murder anything that moves unlike his comrades who just do the heist and run. His impalement when Baby furiously crashed the auto when running away is a Moment of Awesome.
  • Ax-Crazy: Bats straight-up declares himself as crazy, and at no indicate is this assertion disproved. He's aggressive, confrontational and thinks null of killing on a whim.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Initially it seems like Bats and Md are in the running for Big Bad; it sure seems like Bats is going to cease up equally The Starscream. Then he's killed after pushing Infant too far, and the resulting fallout elevates Buddy into Concluding Boss territory.
  • Breathy Lies: Every time he commits a robbery he tells his compatriots that their intended victims have stolen from them, every bit an incentive. When Doc reveals that the cops Bats shot were on his payroll, Bats immediately says they fired first.
  • The Brute: For Doc'southward heist crews. He wields a more powerful weapon (a shotgun) and is the most unstable and Trigger Happy of all Doc's employees.
  • Bullying a Dragon: He considers Buddy to just be some idiot poser playing at being a criminal, and takes every opportunity to taunt him. He never does observe out only how dangerous Buddy is, only by the time Darling dies and Buddy sinks into derangement, it'south articulate simply how much Bats was playing with burn down.
    • Played straight with Baby who he underestimates and is brutally killed by his manus when pushing him too far.
  • Expletive Cutting Brusque: His Atomic F-Flop is cut off by his death.
  • Disk-One Terminal Boss: He'southward built up as the almost dangerous of Medico's heist coiffure, and his frequent antagonizing of Baby and the other team members strongly implies that he'll eventually go off the rails and go the principal antagonist. Still, Bats is the first graphic symbol to exist bumped off during the film's climax, leaving the residuum of the crew, namely a vengeful Buddy, every bit the final obstacles for Baby to overcome.
  • Establishing Graphic symbol Moment: During the van heist, he unnecessarily kills one of the guards much to Baby's shock compared to the heist from the kickoff which was done cleanly without almost any injured.
  • Evil Is Piffling: It's implied that he killed a gas station attendant because he didn't want to pay for gum.
  • Hate Sink: He's an Ax-Crazy Jerkass without any of the redeeming features of his young man criminals, and who treats everyone he encounters with either disdain or homicidal mania.
  • Hidden Depths: For all of his Ax-Crazy-ness, he's surprisingly good at analyzing others.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Bats pushes Baby to breaking point, and as a issue Babe drives directly into the dorsum of a truck with a set up of steel confined sticking out the dorsum. It goes right into Bats'due south chest, putting an end to him.
  • Jerkass: Other characters have redeemable qualities even if they become far away to such extremes like Buddy but Bats possesses nothing worth the forgiveness.
  • Jerkass Has a Indicate: His almost consistent quality (and likely why Medico brings him back into the fold). While calling out Buddy and figuring out that he'due south a former Wall Street stock banker, he points out that that makes Buddy a bigger criminal than anyone in Doc's crew. He also spouts this little Cassandra Truth when he catches Babe in a lie... which foreshadows Medico'south Heroic Cede to save Infant shortly later on revealing his ain paternal feelings for Babe, every bit well as seeing the dear between Baby and Debora.
  • Boot the Dog: Gets several of these moments, one notable one being stealing Joseph's wheelchair just because he tin can.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Some of his scenes plough the atmosphere of a fun, music-driven action film into dark territory, virtually notably when the team coincidentally arrives at the diner where Debora works and nigh kills her.
  • The Mad Hatter: Completely aware of and proud of existence the crew'south Psycho Political party Fellow member.
  • Meaningful Name: Bats... short for Batshit. The Latin American translation changes his name to "Bullet", which because his Trigger Happy nature is also pretty fitting.
  • Murder Is the Best Solution: His Fatal Flaw, other than deliberately trying to piss off everybody he meets, demonstrated by killing people in both heists he's involved in and then trying to notice a way to justify it with Blatant Lies (similar maxim information technology was cocky-defense when he blows away the Arms Dealer and his henchmen), killing some poor store dependent only so he won't pay for the stuff he purchased (without caring that he wasn't wearing a mask) and trying to kill Deborah (either because he thinks she knows too much or to not pay for the stuff he ordered).
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Moments before his death, Bats vehemently called Baby "retard" when Baby hesitated during the heist.
  • Psycho for Rent: A maniacal deadline-serial killer who'south only in information technology for the money.
  • Psycho Party Fellow member: Proudly asserts that he is the "crazy one" in the crew. In fact, his issues with Infant derive from feeling that the latter's Ambiguous Disorder puts his position as the sole crazy 1 in jeopardy.
  • Scary Blackness Man: Bats is very intimidating due to his short atmosphere and hunger for violence.
  • Sherlock Scan: He's pretty capable of figuring out people at a glance. Unfortunately for everybody around, if he believes someone to be a threat he prefers to kill them without warning and if he doesn't thinks someone is a threat he keeps poking them until they can't take information technology anymore.
  • Shotguns Are But Meliorate: Bats favors shotguns for his long artillery.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Bats has got quite the fucking colorful vocabulary.
  • Spanner in the Works: Doc including Bats in a second heist is what starts the downward spiral for his organization. Bats' constant aggressive posturing and psychotic behaviour likely accelerates Baby'due south decision to botch the getaway in the heart of said heist. Not to mention his slaughter of the muddied cops on Doc'southward payroll is what leads the survivors to rally and come for Doc'south blood at the climax of the pic.
  • Spotting the Thread: He recognizes one of the Butcher's men as a cop, meaning they're all secret cops. Unfortunately, they were hush-hush dirty cops on Md's rolodex.
  • Sucksessor: For Griff. Griff may exist a Jerkass, but he'due south at to the lowest degree shown to be competent and capable of holding to a plan without needing to kill anyone. Bats on the other hand is shown to attack anyone, upwards to and including his ain swain crew members, kills a gas station attendant just so he doesn't take to pay for gum, and causes a shootout because he thinks someone might exist trying to arrest him. For all of Griff's unpleasantness, Baby was at least willing to work with him until a job was over, while he kills Bats during a heist.
  • Super OCD: Bats has an intense need to be in charge as well as being considered the only "crazy one" in any given heist, the latter of which immediately puts him at odds with Babe. He also constantly needles his fellow thieves, probing for potential weak spots or holes in their stories, and begins every heist with a monologue about how they (the robbers) are not the real villains, the target is.
  • Suspiciously Like Substitute: A weird case in that he has a lot more than screentime and focus than the grapheme he replaces, but his general Jerkass behavior and his treatment of Baby in detail almost brand information technology look like Griff never left the gang.
  • Tattooed Crook: An Ax-Crazy robber with over a dozen tattoos on his body.
  • Also Clever by Half: Bats is very perceptive and ofttimes comes to the correct decision about people, but ends up doing the completely wrong matter with that data. He also constantly pesters people in guild to encounter if his Sherlock Scan was correct, which is anger-inducing and a bad thought amongst murderous people.
  • Villains Never Lie: When Babe discovers that Bats and Buddy raided his home, Bats can be seen sitting in Joseph'due south wheelchair but claims he'due south nevertheless alive. Information technology seems like he's being sarcastic and given his past behavior likely did kill him, merely later on on it'southward revealed that Joseph, while still dilapidated, is indeed alive and Bats was telling the truth.
  • Would Striking a Girl: He was all prepared to kill Debora only to skip on a beak had Baby not stopped him.
  • Would Hurt a Kid: He reacts angrily when Baby removes an infant from their second getaway car that they just stole from the child's mother, implying he wanted to use the baby as a earnest or only didn't care at all if the babe got hurt.
  • Incorrect Genre Savvy: As smashing as his insight is, he also consistently misreads the situations he finds himself in. He correctly deduces that The Butcher and his men are cops, but fails to realize that Doc sent the gang to them for a reason - those dirty cops were on his payroll. Subsequently on, Bats believes he's cowed Baby plenty to tell when he's lying, yet is completely surprised when it's revealed that Baby actually does know Debora. Finally, his belief that Baby won't fight dorsum gets him killed.
    • He likewise correctly deduces Buddy is a old stock broker, but thinks that makes him a poser instead of really the most dangerous one in the crew.

    Buddy

Jason van Horn a.chiliad.a. Buddy

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"Here it is, Babe, your killer track!"

The handsome party animal and one of the villains, role of the bank robbers gang and a former Wall Street trader.


  • Affably Evil: Buddy is equally genial every bit his name suggests. The other robbers tend to taunt Baby or treat him like a freak, while Doc alternates between menacing and paternal. Buddy, on the other hand, seems to take a fondness for Baby and tries to exist social with him. He even bonds with him over music.
  • Animal Motif: Downplayed, his rise to the villain of the story is foreshadowed by the balderdash fight programme. In the plan, the quote is "And notwithstanding the balderdash stands, bloodied but unrelenting. Gastone is running out of time, he'south had his tries from horseback. At present he must try to end this on human foot." parrallels the fight against Buddy because the criminal is covered in blood and still fighting despite his injuries. As a visual pun, Bats is wearing ruby when he learns well-nigh Buddy's anger issues and repeatedly pisses him off to a indicate where Buddy and Darling consider murdering him afterward the heist. Finally, Buddy drives a Contrivance charger in the climax, while Baby drives a scarlet Dodge Challenger.
  • Bait the Canis familiaris: Comes off every bit the friendliest of the robbers and consistently supports Infant. Information technology turns out that Buddy is just equally triggerhappy and ruthless every bit Bats.
  • Berserk Button: Insulting, threatening or leering at Darling, as and then many poor bastards had the misfortune of doing at Buddy's presence. God help if she is harmed or killed
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Buddy's somewhat affable for a criminal until Darling is killed, sending him on a rampage.
  • Big Bad Slippage: Initially, Buddy comes off equally the most stable and amiable of the heist crew. However, he is gradually revealed to be a much more sinister character than start impressions implied. Ultimately, Baby'south betrayal, which indirectly results in the death of Buddy'southward girlfriend, sends him on the warpath, becoming fixated on destroying Baby and everything that he holds dear.
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: Rather than killing Debora the moment he gets to the diner or killing both her and Baby when Baby finally arrives, Buddy chooses to monologue nearly Darling and listen to "Never, Never Gonna Requite Ya Up", which leads to Babe shooting him in the breast.
  • Boring, only Practical: On heists where he gets to choose his own weapons, he favors a unmarried assault rifle and sidearm, which isn't as cool as, say, Darling's dual submachine guns, merely much more effective when engaging the enemy.
  • Crusading Widower: In the few hours later on Darling dies, he dedicates the rest of his life to taking revenge on Baby.
  • Death Glare: Gives a truly terrifying ane to Bats during Darling's speech about his hidden rage. Also lapses into a case of Tranquil Fury, as it seems like he'south steeling himself to proceed from attacking Bats right in that location.
  • Determinator: Darling lets Bats and the audience know in a little speech that one time Buddy gets angry, at that place'south no stopping him. At the time, Bats dismisses it as just some heard-in-a-movie idiocy to make themselves look scary. Darling was telling the truth most every particular. Later her decease, Buddy goes into full rage mode. He guns downwardly entire squads of cops and manages to become to the diner where Debora works even though the entire urban center is looking for him. He's shot by Babe and surrounded by cops, only to survive and kill his way to Md's edifice. He kills Doc even as his vehicle takes shotgun boom later on shotgun blast. He's only finally put down after getting his arm busted with a crowbar (which barely slowed him) and shot in the leg after a couple of vehicle collisions, following which he falls a few storeys onto a called-for car which subsequently blows up, presumably because anything less would have meant he'd have recovered easily to go on his rampage.
  • Disappeared Dad: To his kids (if he has any). Bats speculates that Buddy has some but Buddy doesn't once mention any, even to refute Bats.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: If Darling is to be taken at face value, he once literally killed someone for looking at her funny.
  • Establishing Character Moment: He's the only one of the robbers during the opening heist scene to give Baby a congratulatory pat on the shoulder when he successfully escapes the cops. Note that they weren't really in the clear yet.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He'due south deeply and truly in love with Darling and has killed people who insulted her. When Darling dies, he blames Baby for it, going to It's Personal levels against him.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Baby as they both dear music and have a partner they dear and would kill for. Unlike Babe, Buddy's honey for Darling encourages him to commit crimes and he will proceed the warpath to avenge her. Whereas Baby'due south dearest for Debora encourages him to escape the life.
  • Concluding Dominate: With Bats expressionless and his mental breakdown when Darling dies, he serves as the last threat to Infant and Debora in the climax.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Bats'southward assay is that Buddy used to be a Wall Street stockbroker with a wife and kids earlier running off with Darling to become banking concern robbers to fund an expensive lifestyle. Information technology'south implied some, if not all of this is true, but other than the office about being on Wall Street, none of it'south confirmed. Then Darling is killed and he becomes an unstoppable rage-filled monster killing his mode through armed cops to seek revenge on Infant.
  • Implacable Man: Buddy goes after Baby and Debora in the climax. No matter if he is injured or he has to shoot police officers, he volition hunt down them until they are expressionless to avenge Darling.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Everything goes down for Babe when the post office heist fails and things become even darker when Buddy loses his shit when Darling dies and chases Baby and Debora to kill them.
  • Made of Iron: Babe shoots him in the chest. It barely slows him down.
  • Meaningful Proper name: The most open and friendly out of Doc'due south gang, making an active endeavor to befriend Baby, as well equally stand up for him to Griff and Bats. This only applies every bit long as y'all're on his good side. The second he'due south crossed, he becomes a monster.

    Debora: Your buddy's here.

  • Misplaced Retribution: While Baby fucked up the heist by wrecking their getaway car but to kill Bats, Darling's death was nigh entirely her fault.
  • Nerves of Steel: Despite using copious amounts of cocaine, Buddy is almost preternaturally calm at all times. Disasters that would reduce ordinary people (like, unfortunately for her, Darling, who dies after she positions herself poorly relative to several armed cops) to panic barely register, at to the lowest degree until Darling dies.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Slaughters or escapes a police shootout, stays under the radar for a few hours before making it to Bo's Diner.
  • Outlaw Couple: He and Darling are a pair of murderous robbers who are madly in love with each other.
  • Parental Substitute: Implied by his friendly rapport with Baby. Outright spelled out when Griff refers to Buddy and Darling every bit Baby's "mom and dad."
  • Perma-Stubble: Buddy typically looks like he hasn't had a shave in a day or two.
  • Revenge by Proxy: Baby inadvertently got Darling killed, so Buddy tries to murder Debora as payback.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Later Darling is killed by the police, Buddy blames Baby for her death, presumably because Baby's murder of Bats had a domino consequence. He proceeds to murder his way across town to endeavour and finish Babe by taking away something he loves; his hearing, and Debora.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: When he's not making out with Darling, he'due south either telling her how much he loves her or shooting people with her. Information technology creeps out just about everyone they piece of work with.
  • Tattooed Cheat: Only one — a tattoo that says "HERS" on his cervix, to friction match the corresponding tattoo on the neck of his wife and (literal) partner in crime Darling.
  • To the Pain: This is what his program for Baby amounts to at the pic'south climax - he has Infant dead to rights afterwards escaping his (stolen) constabulary machine just before it gets pushed out of a parking garage, but rather than shoot him in the face Buddy fires ii shots next to each of Baby's ears to deliberately damage them further. Buddy goes on to explain how he's going to kill Debora in front of him slowly before putting Babe out of his misery.

    Buddy: [property a gun to Baby's face] You did adept, kid. Merely y'all took something away from me that I loved. You know I got to exercise the same.

  • Villain Has a Point: It's actually a niggling difficult to argue with him that the heist going south is mostly Baby's fault. Sure, you could argue that Bats shooting somebody dead was the crusade of the whole thing going to hell, just this was after Bats had already murdered multiple people in the pre-heist. Baby having a change of heart just equally everybody is jumping in the getaway vehicle after he insisted he be the driver for this job was literally the worst moment he could accept done so.
  • Villainous Breakup: Buddy goes off the deep end post-obit Darling's death, becoming increasingly unhinged with every passing moment.
  • Weapon of Choice: Buddy seems to accept a liking for SIG-Sauer handguns, like the P250 he carries for the Tequila shootout and the P228 for the post function heist. Fitting, as Darling prefers SIG-Sauer MPX-Ps.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Goes on a binge to kill Debora to go revenge against Baby for indirectly causing Darling's expiry.
  • Yandere: While usually a laidback guy, if someone and so much as looks funny at Darling he will kill that person.

    Darling

Monica Castello a.chiliad.a. Darling

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"You think you're the terminal give-and-take in crazy, y'all're not."

One of the banking concern robbers, Buddy'due south lawless and scandalous wife and partner in crime.


  • Affably Evil: Similar to Buddy, she is generally friendly to Baby in their few interactions, defending him from Griff.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: Darling's double SIG-Sauer MPX-Ps are both absurd and cool-looking, but she discovers the impracticality when attempting to use both: her aim is unfocused when wielding them, and firing in total-automobile makes it almost completely ineffective, over and to a higher place the performance malus that using Guns Akimbo confers in the first place. Another blink and y'all miss it bit likewise shows us that Darling was shot in the arm, during the shootout with the Butcher's men, and leaves her with an injured arm. Had she focused on using one submachines gun at a fourth dimension, she might have lived.
  • Bait the Dog: Much similar Buddy, simply turns out to exist more psychotic than she first lets on.
  • Bare Your Midriff: Her outfit when the gang goes to see the smugglers.
  • Dark Action Daughter: Despite implied to be a sometime stripper, she can handle herself in a gunfight. However she seems closer to a Faux Activity Girl as she doesn't realize the importance of embrace, needs Buddy to bedchamber her sidearm and makes impractical use of ii submachines guns and is killed past the constabulary when she walks into the open firing abroad hitting cipher.
  • Establishing Character Moment: In her very get-go appearance onscreen, she's the only one wearing a shit-eating smirk while anybody else is rock-faced.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her feelings for Buddy are genuine.
  • Flat Character: Other than being a bank robber and the married woman of Buddy, she doesn't get as much characterisation as the other characters.
  • Fur and Loathing: Although not as villainous equally most of the other depository financial institution robbers, Darling wears a (probably faux) fur coat during the botched gun switch and so during the diner scene, demonstrating her villainous nature.
  • Guns Akimbo: During the post function robbery she uses two submachineguns.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: Unlike Buddy, Darling is incredibly reckless in fights and doesn't think to take embrace.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She looks very good, and is portrayed by Eiza González, who is rather easy on the eyes.
  • Morality Pet: Darling is this to Buddy, though it's played with as she casually discusses men she's had Buddy kill for her in the past when she decides that Bats "looked at her funny".
  • Outlaw Couple: She and Buddy are a pair of murderous robbers who are madly in love with each other.
  • Psychopathic Adult female Child: Although possibly not quite a psychopath, she is very kittenish with her violence, equally shown when she describes how she made Buddy kill men for "looking at her funny" and other minor infractions.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: When she'southward non making out with Buddy, she's either telling him how much she loves him or shooting people with him. It creeps out just about anybody they work with.
  • The Smurfette Principle: The only female member of the gang.
  • Tattooed Crook: Has tattoos on her body and is a banking concern robber with her hubby. She and Buddy have matching "HIS" and "HERS" tattoos on their necks.

    Griff

Griff

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"If y'all don't see me once again, it's considering I'k dead."

One of the bank robbers who mocks Baby constantly.


  • Death Glare: Griff gives a content ane towards Baby in the opening heist.
  • Jerkass: His only part in the movie is to be a dick to Baby, stealing his sunglasses and trying to intimidate him.
  • Politically Wrong Villain: Briefly thought that Babe's deal was because of mental retardation, and asked Doc out loud if Baby was retarded.
  • Put on a Bus: Later on the first heist, he is never seen over again. Given the terminal words nosotros hear him say, and the director's trend to include on-the-nose foreshadowing, he likely died unmentioned off-screen.
  • Ungrateful Bounder: In spite of it being Baby's badass driving that allowed Griff to brand money, all Griff tin can do is constantly make fun of Baby.

    Joseph

Joseph

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"(signed) Wouldn't it be practiced to bring joy to people when you drive?"

Baby's foster begetter.


  • Bury Your Disabled: Implied to have been killed by the crew when they toss Baby's flat for the tapes he's been recording the whole time. Fortunately, this ends upwardly being a Subverted Trope; Joseph is one of the few characters that Bats does not kill (or attempt to) on a whim, and he ends up living to testify at Baby's trial, in Baby's defense.
  • Cool Old Guy: He has filled the parental substitute function for Babe and he is worried near Babe'southward criminal activities. When the deal with Doc is over (at least temporarily), Joe helps Baby to find a proper job as a pizza commitment boy. Also, he approves Baby's infatuation with Debora.
  • Elderberry Abuse: Gets bruised badly by Bats in his flat to intimidate Baby. Fearing the obvious danger Bats poses to both Debora and Joseph, Baby kills him as retaliation.
  • Morality Pet: Fills this role along with Debora. His love and concern for Baby's welfare is returned, helping Baby to stay a good-natured person despite his criminal occupation.
  • Nice Guy: Joseph is a likable person who deeply cares for Infant.
  • Parental Substitute: Took Baby in after his parents' death.
  • The Voiceless: Is mute as a consequence of being deaf.
  • Wheelchair Woobie: A sweet former man who is both deaf and wheelchair-bound.

    JD

    Eddie No-Nose

Eddie No-Nose

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"Don't ask me that, that's a 'No-Olfactory organ no-no' page 1."

Portrayed By: Flea

Another criminal working for Physician, he is the third fellow member of the second heist.


  • Large "NO!": When JD doesn't understand that Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees aren't the aforementioned character.
  • Light-green and Mean: He's an amoral criminal who wears a dark-green set of coveralls for the armored truck heist.
  • Nasal Trauma: Suffered some sort of damage to his nose that requires him to wear a piece of record over it. Information technology'south implied this might have to do with the incident that changed his proper noun to Eddie No-Nose.
  • Noodle Incident: Why Eddie is now chosen Eddie No-Nose after he was known as Eddie the Olfactory organ is never explained; Eddie just says it's a "No-Nose no-no".
  • Shotguns Are Just Ameliorate: Wields a shotgun for the armored automobile heist.
  • Tattooed Crook: Has a few pocket-sized tattoos, like the 57 and fifty on his jaw and a star close to his left eye.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Like Griff, he disappears later on his heist.

    The Butcher

The Butcher

"From the jowl comes the godsent Roman bacon that is guanciale!"

Portrayed By: Paul Williams

An Artillery Dealer who Baby, Buddy, Darling and Bats meet.


  • Affably Evil: Even if he is an artillery dealer selling weapons to fierce depository financial institution robbers, he is nothing but friendly to the crew.
  • Absurd Shades: Wears a prissy pair of sunglasses with pink lenses.
  • Dirty Cop: He and his men are dingy cops on Doc'due south payroll, which is why "APD" is on the boxes.
  • Poor Advice Kills: If only Md had told Bats that the Butcher was a Dirty Cop.

What Is Baby's Actual Name From Baby Driver

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