Well, pretty, you probably didn't need three semi-final rounds and one final round to determine who Prison Break's Biggest Badass of all time was.  T-Bag first made his appearance in the contest in round 2, where he went up against Lechero and Lincoln, smoking the competition, with 72% of the votes.  In the finals, he went up against Mahone and Bellick.  Mahone gave him some competition with 31% of the votes while Bellick pulled in a pathetic 5%.  No one could come close to getting the amount of support that T-Bag did and with 64% of the final votes, he officially becomes Prison Break's Biggest Badass.

T-Bag was a bad boy from the very beginning.  As a child, he was cited by the police several times for vandalism and animal cruelty.  He also tried to burn down his fourth grade teacher's house.  The older he got, the more dangerous he got.  He was arrested and imprisoned for assault with a deadly weapon as a young adult.  There, he became the leader of a white supremacist group called the Alliance for Purity.  Once he got out, he went on a killing rampage, often raping his victims, several of whom were teenagers.  He was captured after being seen on America's Most Wanted and thrown into Fox River Penitentiary.

There was no Alliance for Purity in Fox River but T-Bag quickly set up his own chapter and made them into one of the prison's most powerful gangs.  He started a riot, where he killed a guard.  When he met Michael Scofield, he found a way to get in on the escape plan but he he didn't make any friends there, particularly with John Abruzzi.  Once the Fox River 8 broke out, Abruzzi cut off T-Bag's hand.  T-Bag found a veterinarian in a small town, who he forced to fix his hand and then repaid the man by killing him.  He also assaulted a man who gave him a ride across the country.  T-Bag tracked down the woman who sent him to prison and held her and her children hostage.  Perhaps the only good thing he did in three seasons of Prison Break was let them go and anonymously call the police to come rescue them.

T-Bag made his way to Panama, where he got right back to his old habits.  After picking up a prostitute, her murdered her for commenting on his relationship with Susan.  When he is chased by Bellick, Sucre, and Michael, he shoots Bellick in the leg.  While Sucre escapes, the rest are arrested and sent to Sona prison.  Once inside the prison walls, it didn't take him long to track down Lechero, the most powerful man in Sona, and align himself with him.  Ruthless and dangerous, the man is also smart and has an ability to read people.  He has figured out that Michael is once again, trying to break out a prison, and has weasled his way in on the plan. 

When BuddyTV had the opportunity to sit down with Robert Knepper, the actor who plays T-Bag, he said of his portrayal, "I don’t set out to play him being a villainous character, I set out to just fulfill the objective that the character’s trying to do in the moment."  Congratulations T-Bag!  You are far and away the biggest badass that Prison Break (or BuddyTV) has ever seen!


- Gina Scarpa, BuddyTV Staff Writer
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