User blog comment:Omnicube1/Season 2 Finale: John Shaft (Shaft series) vs. Michael Corleone (The Godfather series)/@comment-422690-20110723024942

I think you mixed Michael's characterization up with Sonny. Michael is calm and level-headed, but extremely ruthless (if a bit of a control freak). It's Sonny who's the hothead who would act in the way shown here.