Bud White

Bud White from L.A. Confidential

Raised under an abusive father, Bud White watched his mother be chained and beaten his whole life. However, when he matures, he realizes that the same white hot anger runs through his veins. Instead of turning on women, though, he decides to vent on abusers themselves. But not good deed goes unpunished. Bud has earned himself a thug reputation in Los Angeles as a knight in shining armor--the punisher of all wife beaters. Unhappy, but realizing there's nothing he can do, Bud takes a job as an enforcer. But a call girl helps him to realize that he's not all bad, like the department says he is, and that somewhere inside of him is an incredible mind--a mind that solves murder, robberies...a mind that Bud needs to unleash.
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Characteristics: Brutish, tempermental, violent
Quotes: (this is the closest I could find--it's about Los Angeles) "I'd move to Los Angeles--if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed by a huge tital wave, if there was a bubonic plague in Europe, and if Africa disappeared in some Martian attack." --Russell Crowe
Apparently, any feelings he might've held for LA in his movie, he does not actually feel in reality!