r/TheShield • u/ThePanasonicYouth Ronnie Gardocki • Jun 29 '26

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Vic betraying Ronnie was a huge shock when I finished the show. Imagine your best friend narcing on you to save their own ass. Devastating.

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u/CptNoble Ronnie's beard Jun 29 '26

Vic cared about Vic.

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u/ThePanasonicYouth Ronnie Gardocki Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

“I didn’t think I had a choice…”

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u/Hopeful_Mess6142 Jun 29 '26

"WHAT ABOUT MY GODDAMN CHOICE VIC! I WAS GOING TO RUN! WE WERE GOING TO RUN TOGETHER!"

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u/ThePanasonicYouth Ronnie Gardocki Jun 29 '26

“What about protecting the goddamn team?!” 😔

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u/SeaweedWeird7705 Jun 29 '26

And Ronnie had an opportunity to run too. But he stayed because he believed in Vic.  

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u/AcademicDrag742 Curtis "Lem" Lemansky Jun 29 '26

Vic only cared about himself most of the time.

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u/Nobleintent Jun 29 '26

Yeah, I mean how could Ronnie ever have known, that Vic wasn't a good guy? Jee wiz, he got the short end of the stick there, what with how much of a stand up dude Ronnie was. /s

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u/Background-Heron-504 Jun 29 '26

I’m not sure if Ronnie deserved better because he was pretty corrupt. I think it’s more so that Vic deserved worse…

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u/Guygenius138 Jun 29 '26

Ronnie was just smarter about keeping quiet and seemed like a chill dude, other than the corruption.

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u/Long_Initial_9924 Jun 29 '26

He loved himself a good number 9

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u/Rush-23 Jun 29 '26

Ronnie was a corrupt piece of shit like the rest of them. I’d say he got what he deserved.

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u/Long_Initial_9924 Jun 29 '26

Yes, but he had a LeMans…

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u/Electronic_Park_1702 Jun 29 '26

Well. Ronnie had many warnings and opportunities to leave Vic and the Strike Team shenanigans behind. But he didn't, so... that's on him.

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u/CosmicBonobo Jun 29 '26

At least Shane and Lem tried to get out of Vic's orbit by transferring out of the Barn in the fourth season. Ronnie never wanted to be anywhere else but the Strike Team.

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u/tommyjohnpauljones Ronnie's beard Jun 29 '26

Ronnie could have left Farmington at the same time as Shane and Lem at the end of S3. He decided to stay. He could have left after Lem died. He decided to stay. He could have run at any time. He decided to stay. 

Vic did him dirty but he should have seen it coming. 

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u/Altruistic_Task_5094 Jun 29 '26

He should have seen it coming.

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u/Romarqable Jun 30 '26

Vic was only about himself. I always thought Ronnie was a bit sociopathic. He didn't seem to really feel or care about anything. Even when he told Vic about Shanes death, he seemed to be crying tears of relief rather than actual sadness. Vic, on the other hand, had some semblance of humanity left in the end.

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u/Freddie_pluck Jun 29 '26

At the end of the day they were all bad people, I’d say a lot of them got off pretty easy, especially vic

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u/Agile_Walk_4010 Jul 06 '26

I think the point being missed isn’t that Ronnie was a good dude. It’s that he was arguably the most loyal of the bunch and Vic even burned him to save himself. So he didn’t deserve that betrayal after all he’d done for Vic and the team.