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“	Whenever you're ready to bring your sideline ass on the frontline, then why don't you let me know, brother?	„
	~ Scotty Appleton.

“	Man, a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. I mean, he won't sell it to his sister, he won't sell it to his mother- but he'll sell it to one of his boys on the street.	„
	~ Scotty Appleton's famous quote regarding drug dealers and their methods.

“	This ain't business, bitch. This is personal.	„
	~ Scotty Appleton when defeating Nino Brown and revealing his intentions to kill him to avenge his mother.

Scotty Appleton is the main protagonist of the 1991 film New Jack City.

He was played by Ice-T, also played Jack Mason in the 1994 film Surviving the Game and played Odafin Tutuola on the hit TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Biography

Early Life

Not much is known about Scotty Appleton's past life, but one day, Nino Brown approached a schoolteacher and murdered her in cold blood just to prove himself worthy to the gang, causing Scotty to develop a sense of revenge and join the New York Police Department to take him down and avenge the schoolteacher who was his mother. Scotty eventually became a detective as it presumes that he went undercover in several prior string operations.

New Jack City

He tries to make a deal with a stick-up guy, Benny Robinson aka "Pookie", who runs way with the money. When Scotty goes after Pookie and then shoots him, the police let him go as Scotty got suspension. Later he volunteers to take Nino, main villain and drug dealer, down and is partnered with wild cop and hero, Nick Peretti. They spy on Brown during Thanksgiving and notice Pookie, who has turned into a crack head, and later doesn't put him in jail but in rehab and then later wants to aid to defeat Nino Brown.

They see into Nino's world as Pookie works there at The Carter, Nino's crack house, but relapses and is discovered by Nino's henchmen to be wired and working with cops. His minions then order that The Carter be blown up and in flames and to destroy Pookie. Scotty and the other heroes find inside the burning building the dead body of Pookie, who has a bomb in him, which is defused. Then after Pookie's funeral, Scotty and Nick, volunteer to pretend that they are drug dealers to get Brown. With Frankie Needles's and Gee Money's help and Scotty and Nick going undercover, Scotty and the heroes nearly are successful in taking Nino down and Scotty kicks him around and lets him know that Nino's gang initiation kill was his mom and Nino is arrested.

Then at Brown's trial, Nino does a plead of guilty to a lesser charge and says he was forced into his criminal way of life because of threats and that Kareem Akbar is the leader of the CMB. Nino Brown gets a sentence of 1 year in jail, which makes Scotty enraged and stated that he should have killed him when he had the chance. Nino replies that Scotty can come work for him. Outside of the courtroom, Nino is killed and shot by an old man, which makes both Scotty and Nick happy to say the least.

Personality

Despite his harden and tough attitude, he genuinely cares for his allies and loved ones as he tries to do the right thing to protect the community. The prime example is when he had his former enemy and drug addict Pookie institutionalized into rehab out of pity instead of throwing him into custody and he was even on his side during the entire rehabilitation.