backfired plans he was not forced into as we debated, in Was Michael a tragic figure? thread,

Kay
Michael seeking Kay out, his horror of a wife
Bet hypocrite Kay never told Anthony about his unborn brother she murdered

Frankie Pentangeli
It was indeed unbecoming of a Don
1. Michael “undercut Pentangeli through his support of the Rosato Brothers” against his own man
2. Michael gave his loyalty to a Jew [Roth] before his own blood
3. Michael asked Pentangeli to lay down - settle these troubles - to the Rosato Brothers who spit right in Pentangeli's face
4. Michael threw Pentangeli [good old man -- who was loyal to Vito, Michael's father and to Michael, for years] under the bus
5. then abandonment of his 'dead' capo's family

Fredo
no excuse whatsoever for “Fredo’s betrayal;” for something in it for me -- on my own, the Donship
Nevertheless Michael could have spared Fredo

Mary
Michael surrounded by his family, was parading himself and his family in public, so out in the open even at the steps of the Opera house in Sicily, in the night, in full view of anyone lurking knowing Mosca, the assassin who had never failed thus far, was contracted to murder him and that Mosca had already murdered Don Tommasino Go figure!