Vito Scaletta

Vittorio Antonio Scaletta (born 1925), also known as Vito Scaletta, is one of the three protagonists (alongside Tommy Angelo and Lincoln Clay) of the video-game series,
He is the main protagonist of the 2010 video game Mafia II, a minor character in Mafia II's spin-off story DLC, Mafia II: Joe's Adventures, and one of the three tritagonists (alongside Cassandra and Thomas Burke) of the 2016 video game . He is also a minor antagonist in the epilogue of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (2002) and its remake (2020).
Vito is a mobster who becomes a made man for the Falcone crime family alongside his best friend Joe Barbaro. During the events of the third game, an older Vito teams up with new player character Lincoln Clay in order to take down the Marcano Crime Family. Due to the number of games he's been in, and his involvement within the franchise's narrative, he could be considered the overall main protagonist of Mafia.
In Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, he was voiced by Bill Buell. In the sequels, he was voiced by , who also voiced Giuseppe Palminteri, as well as Aldo Trapani in .
==Personality==
Vito is the strong, smart, silent type, the opposite of his best friend Joe, who is much more flamboyant, loud, and brutish. This quality is admired by his many bosses. He has some morals; he doesn't kill because he wants to, but because he knows he has to. Vito doesn't aspire to be the Don; he just wants a bit of money and a bit of respect so that he can help his family out. Vito seems to really care about his family and friends and those who have helped him out but when he is released from prison, he seems to grow colder. Vito's main weakness is his inability to tell his friends to stop going too far. 
He doesn't like when somebody harasses or bashes women. He could torment Luca Gurino, but chose not to, knowing that Luca already got what he deserved. Vito didn't want Marty to become a criminal, knowing that Marty could become a better person, and warned Joe of dangers for him. Although he doesn't cry over the deaths of Marty and Henry, due to his silent nature, he actually feels sorry for them (and even crossed himself after Henry's death). Vito seems to not like his "deadbeat" father for alcoholism and the family's poorness during the childhood, but after learning the truth about the father's death, he avenges him. 
By Mafia III he became sad for losing almost everything, but also became wiser and morally better by learning his mistakes from the past.
==Biography==
===Mafia II===
Vito was born in San Martino, Sicily in 1925 to a very poor family. His father took his family, which also had Vito's mother and sister Frankie, and they moved to America and to a city called Empire Bay. But even there they could not escape poverty, and his father mostly spent his money for boozing.
Vito met Joe Barbaro, and together they got into a life of crime. However, bad luck hit Vito in 1943 when he was caught stealing and arrested when aged eighteen. He chose to join U.S. Army in the Italian campaigns rather than go to prison. He assisted in the invasion of Sicliy. In 1945, he took a bullet by a Nazi soldier and was given sick leave and returned home. Joe managed to get a man to create fake documents to state that Vito wouldn't return to the army.
Needing to pay off his father's debts which ended up becoming his mother and sister's priority after his dad's death, Vito begins to get involved in the Clemente Crime Family who Joe is working with. Vito manages to earn the two thousand dollars to pay off the debt, but is arrested for selling illegal gas stamps and sentenced to ten years in prison. While in prison he meets gangster Leo Galante and forms a friendship with him, and Vito serves only six years after Leo pulls some strings.
Twenty-six years later in 1951, Vito joins the Falcone Crime Family after his release from prison, who Joe joined up with after the Clemente's betrayed him and Vito. Vito becomes a made man after Leo Galante recommended him, despite Leo initially wanting Vito to join the Vinci Crime Family, and they both take down the Clemente family for good when taking down the boss and his right hand man. Vito then puts in a good word for ex-Clemente soldier and friend Henry Tomasino, who is accepted into the family.
But when Henry and Joe plan to make cash on the side by drug dealing, Vito is skeptical as he was warned by another high respected mob boss Frank Vinci that "you deal, you die". A couple of prior events cause Vito to reconsider, one being that he learns that Falcone ordered Clemente dead not out of disdain for Clemente's known drug trafficking, but that Falcone was also a drug trafficker who saw Clemente as a threat to his profit margin causing Vito disgust at the hypocrisy. Another factor was that shortly before the drug deal, Vito's house had been torched by the Irish gang out of vengenance for Vito killing their leader during a fight while both were imprisoned. The drug deal goes smoothly. However the next day the Triads turned against them and butchered Henry in the park, which ended up with Vito and Joe killing many triads including enforcer Zhe Yun Wong who claimed that Henry was a federal agent. This causes a war between the Triads and the mafia families after blaming them for the deaths of the Triad members. Joe and Vito also end up with a tremendous debt, as Henry borrowed from a loan shark to buy the drugs, and now the debt has fallen to them. They take many jobs, especially an assassination of ex-gangster and informant Tommy Angelo. Vito gets a job at the docks from Vinci Capo and Union Boss Derek Pappalardo to quash a strike of the dockwokers, one of which tells Vito that Derek was responsible for the death of Vito's father. The enraged Vito massacres Derek, his enforcer Steve and his gangsters. Joe and Vito are then kidnapped by Vinci's men as Frank tries to find out what is going on, but they both massacre a load of Vinci's men and escape. Vito pays back the loan shark, finding out he was also the loan shark his father borrowed from, but decided to walk away.
Vito was called by Underboss Eddie to meet boss Carlo at his Planetarium. While heading there, Vito is told to get into a limo by a mobster, which has Leo and the Traid's boss inside. They tell him that the only way he would walk was if he killed Carlo, who they are scared will rat everyone out when arrested. Vito agrees and heads straight to the Planetarium, where Carlo waits and tries to convince Joe to kill Vito on the agreement he will be given the role of a Capo. But Joe decides against the idea and assists Vito in taking down Carlo.
When leaving, Vito and Joe come across Leo and many gangsters waiting for them. Leo asks Vito to join him in a separate car as there is "more to talk about". Joe gets into another car, which takes him to a different direction. When Vito panics and asks Leo where the mobsters are taking Joe, Leo apologizes and states that Joe wasn't part of their deal, and realization of the situation hits Vito, shocked that his long-life friend would be dead.
=== Mafia III ===
Vito is the leader of the Italian Gang, an Underboss in the Clay Crime Family, and a former lieutenant in the Marcano Crime Family. He is in charge of New Bordeaux's River Row district. The FBI became interested in him because of his relationship with Lincoln Clay, noting that he saw action during World War II, served a six-year prison sentence for theft and illegal distribution of federal rations, and was a suspect in the death of Carlo Falcone, whose crime family he had previously served.
He began working for the Marcano family following his exile from Empire Bay as part of a deal negotiated by Leo Galante after he massacred a large portion of the Empire Bay Triads, a Chinese criminal organization based in the city's Chinatown.
Vito has also spent the last decade investigating who was responsible for the murder of his best friend Joe Barbaro, who was not protected by Vito's arrangement with Leo because both were involved in the Empire Bay Triad attack. Years later, Vito establishes that Joe fled town after getting the upper hand on his captors and sought protection from some mobsters in Chicago, who instead maimed and beat him to death.
=== Working for Marcano ===
Sal Marcano assigns him the River Row district of New Bordeaux to serve as one of his lieutenants. Sal has never been pleased with this arrangement, and he only accepted Vito out of respect for Galante. However, Vito is a made man, so Sal cannot kill him without due cause and the Commission's approval.
The situation comes to a head in 1968 when Marcano decides to kill Vito by sending his nephew, Michael Grecco, to muscle into Vito's rackets in River Row, so that Marcano can get the hit on Vito sanctioned by the Commission (which he suspects planted Vito into his outfit as a mole), ostensibly because Vito hasn't been paying his dues to Sal (in reality, however, because Sal doesn't want Vito to inform the Commission about the casino he's planning to build in the city). Vito joins Lincoln as one of his underbosses, along with Cassandra and Thomas Burke, to help him defeat Marcano and take over New Bordeaux's criminal activities, out of gratitude to Lincoln and recognition that he has the ability to help him exact revenge on the Marcano family.
After murdering Grecco, Vito leaves the Marcano family and becomes one of Lincoln's underbosses, seizing control of some of Marcano's territories and the rackets they contain from Lincoln.
=== Working for Lincoln ===
Vito first meets Lincoln at the Retroussé Yacht Club, which includes Sal Marcano. Vito, who had served in WWII, questions Lincoln about his time in Vietnam before leaving just as Sal and Giorgi brief Lincoln on the Federal Reserve robbery, for which Vito is risking the majority of his life savings. According to Giorgi, Vito has also provided him with a combination for the Federal Reserve vault.
Several months after Sal betrayed the Black Mob, Vito has been struggling to pay his debts to Sal, who has been intentionally squeezing him dry and sabotaging his rackets in order to get a hit on Vito sanctioned by the Commission. Vito had been thinking about leaving town for years, but his savings were insufficient, and after Sal refused to pay him his share of the Federal Reserve heist when Vito suspected he was next on Sal's hit list, implying that his life savings had been lost, Vito purposefully attempted to provoke Sal into killing him in the following months.
Michael's men eventually ambush Vito and keep him in the freezer of Benny's Ristorante long enough for Michael to kill him; however, this plan is foiled when Vito is unexpectedly rescued by Lincoln. Vito agrees to assist him in exacting revenge on Marcano in exchange for Vito detaining and torturing Michael Grecco for information after their initial attempt to ambush him at a brothel is foiled by the arrival of hitmen dispatched by Marcano. After discovering that Sal wants him dead for fear of informing Leo and the rest of the Commission about his plan to build a casino in New Bordeaux, Vito murders Grecco by running him through a meat grinder and sets out to rebuild his businesses, namely a smuggling operation he runs through his lieutenant Alma Diaz, at his warehouse, the dock union, and a seafood restaurant called Benny's Ristorante.
He later has a disagreement with Cassandra during a sit-down after it is revealed that his men, on Vito's orders, had been killing her men months prior due to a conflict between the Haitian Mob and the Marcano Crime Family.
=== Avenging Joe's Death ===
Vito later enlists Lincoln's help in killing members of the Marcano outfit, all of whom were originally from Chicago and were brought into the ranks at the behest of the Commission, for their role in the murder of his lifelong friend Joe Barbaro.
=== Fate ===
Nothing is known about Vito Scaletta's fate if Lincoln decides to stay and rule New Bordeaux. If he and Lincoln survived the takeover of the Marcano Crime Family without any betrayal, it is assumed he continued to lead the Italian Gang and serve as Lincoln's underboss, running whatever territories Lincoln saw fit to assign him.
If Lincoln leaves New Bordeaux and Vito Scaletta takes over, he spits on Sal Marcano's grave one last time by completing the Paradiso Hotel & Casino, which Marcano wasn't able to do. Two years later, Vito opened another casino, sparking a wave of development that included hotels, arenas, and a new convention center. Today, New Bordeaux is known as the "Las Vegas of the South." Vito still lives in the penthouse at the top of the Paradiso, overlooking the city he owns. However, he looks like as if he thinks over choices in his life.
== Abilities ==
*Peak Human Condition:
*Hand-to-hand Combatant:
*Driving Skills: Due to his time in the military in World War II Vito became a great driver. He told Joe that he was driving a jeep in his military service his driving skills impressed Joe he said to Vito that at least something good came out of it.
*Intelligence:
*Marksmanship: Thanks to his military training, Vito became an excellent marksman. He can fire smaller firearms such as pistols as well as larger firearms such as rifles, shotguns and machine guns such as the MG-42.
==Murders Committed==
===Mafia II===
*Fascist Officer - Shot.
*Fascist Soldiers - Shot.
*Bombers Members - Shot.
*O'Neil Goons - Shot.
*Empire Bay Cops - Shot or blown up.
*Fat Man's Henchmen - Shot.
*Sidney "Fat Man" Pen - Shot by Vito & Joe.
*Brian O'Neil - Throat sliced with shiv.
*Sammy - Shot.
*Clemente Mobsters - Shot.
*Irish Gangsters - Shot.
*Irish Bartender - Shot.
*Mickey Desmond - Shot or killed in car crash.
*Fake Cops - Shot.
*Chinese Mobsters - Shot.
*Chinese Bartender - Shot.
*Chinese Kitchen Workers - Shot.
*Derek's Goons - Shot.
*Stephen "Steve" Coyne - Shot.
*Derek Pappalardo - Shot.
*Vinci Mobsters - Shot.
*Falcone Mobsters. - Shot.
*Carlo Falcone - Shot.
===Mafia III===
*Michael Grecco - Tortured and killed with meat grinder.
==Chapters==
No.	Name 	Date
0 	Prologue 	26th September, 1951
1 	The Old Country 	11th July, 1943
2 	Home Sweet Home 	8th February, 1945
3 	Enemy of the State 	10th February, 1945
4 	Murphy's Law 	11th February, 1945
5 	The Buzzsaw 	20th February, 1945
6 	Time Well Spent 	26th February, 1945 (Arrested)
6 	Time Well Spent 	18th May, 1945 (Imprisoned)
6 	Time Well Spent 	June 1945 (Ending)
7 	In Loving Memory 	10th April, 1951
8 	The Wild Ones 	11th April, 1951
9 	Balls and Beans 	6th May, 1951
10 	Room Service 	15th June, 1951
11 	A Friend of Ours 	27th July, 1951
12 	Sea Gift 	22nd September, 1951
13 	Exit the Dragon 	24th September, 1951
14 	Stairway to Heaven 	25th September, 1951
15 	Per Aspera Ad Astra	26th September, 1951
==Gallery==
MafiaVito.png|Alternate universe Vito.
Vito as a child.png|Young Vito.
File:Vito becoming a made man of Falcone's Family.webp|Vito becoming a member of Falcone Family
Vito Scaletta III.jpg|43-year-old Vito.
Lincoln-Mafia-3-Poster.jpg
Vito and Lincoln Clay first scene.png|Vito meeting Lincoln Clay.
Vito rescued by Lincoln.png|Vito being rescued by Lincoln.
Lincoln-and-Vito.jpg
Vito-Clay-Cassandra.jpg|Vito with Lincoln and Cassandra.
The-Crew.png|Vito with Lincoln, Cassandra, and Burke.
Mafia-3-Sitdown.png|Vito at one of the sitdowns.
==Trivia==
*He is 6'1” (185 cm) and weighs 190 lb (86 kg).
*He is the only protagonist to have been born in Italy.
*He is the only protagonist to have interacted with both other main protagonists (Tommy Angelo and Lincoln Clay).
*his first appearance was in 1943, aged only 18 at the time.
*His death is player-determined.
*Vito is 43 years old in Mafia III (1968).
*He moved from New York City to New Orleans (Bordeaux).
*He had his own gang by the time Mafia III takes place.
==External Links==
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==Licensing==
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