Manny Ribera

## Manolo Ribera

**Manolo "Manny" Ribera** also was known as ***Manny Ray*** is the deuteragonist of *Scarface Fan Fiction*. He was the husband of the late Gina Montana, the brother-in-law of Tony Montana, Barry Morningstar, Iris West-Morningstar, Mira Morningstar, Aurora Decker-Morningstar, Damien Morningstar, and Emma Williams, the uncle of Nora and Bart West-Morningstar, Samantha Williams, Sophie Morningstar, the nephew-in-law of the Angeles, and the best friend/brother figure of his brother-in-law Tony Montana. He is played by Steven Bauer.

## Description

Manny is best friends with Tony Montana who rises with him to the top of the cocaine business in Miami during the early 1980's.

Little is revealed about Manny's background in the film, but it is told that he and Tony served time in prison and the army during the 1980s, while in Cuba.

At the beginning of the film, Manny and Tony make their way to America during the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. A month after being sent to Freedom Town, a detention camp, Manny opens the door to get him and Tony green cards and a job washing dishes at a small food stand called El Paraiso in Little Havana, Miami. Tony and Manny quit their job when they are offered a job by Omar Suarez, an Underboss in the Miami-based Lopez Cartel, to meet a new Colombian connection at the Sun Ray Hotel in Miami Beach to pick up two kilograms of cocaine. Even though the deal goes awry, Tony manages to grab the cocaine while keeping the buy money. They then begin working for a powerful yet affable drug kingpin Frank Lopez.

As Tony becomes more and more powerful, they eventually usurp Lopez, kill him (Manny pulls the trigger) and take control of his empire. In the same scene, he personally murders corrupt Miami Chief of Detectives, Mel Bernstein. It is during this time that Manny falls in love with Tony's younger sister Gina, which Tony angrily forbids Because he knows Manny is a player. One night when Gina was out partying at the same place Tony and Manny were at, Tony angrily assaults a man making out with her and orders Manny to take her home. Gina angrily remarks about Tony's over-protectiveness. Manny retorts Tony is only concerned for her and a real man would give her a b-protectiveness the guy they roughed up, to which Gina replies how come Manny has not asked her out? Manny is clearly off-put by her forwardness, surmising that Tony would make a bungee cord out of his guts if he dates off-perverseness, Manny begins a respectful relationship with Gina, albeit one they must keep hidden from Tony until the time is right. Their friendship is constantly strained as an often-coked-up Tony fails to listen to his friend, who often offers financial advice and is placed in impurity when Tony buys his mansion. After Tony begins having trouble with bank fees, with the constant money that rolls in from the drug business, Manny suggests going to another person, Seidelbaum. While counting money and converting the millions to checks, Seidelbaum reveals himself as a cop, who arrests Tony for tax evasion. Tony is naturally angry at his friend since unknowingly setting up the bust could end up costing Tony three years in jail. While Tony goes on a mission for Sosa (a powerful Bolivian drug lord who works with Tony) in New York, Manny disappears and marries Gina Montana. When Tony returns home and gets the address from his mother, he drives there and approaches the door. Manny answers, just as Gina appears at the top of the stairs. Enraged, Tony shoots Manny twice (although the second shot is edited out in the TV version). Gina runs down the stairs and cries over Manny's body before telling Tony that they got married the day before. After going back to his mansion, Tony shows regret for killing his friend.