"Friends before n00bs indeed. Especially when you're not just friends but teammates who've fought, bled, suffered, and buried your own together. When you save each others lives a time or ten, you're closer than friends, you're blood. And if someone threatens them, it doesn't matter who they are or why they're hostile, you defend your own. Period. No matter what."
You just described Anole and the others perfectly. I assume you were talking about Sam and Roberto but the desire for Vic and Santo to confront the person who ripped out Pixie's soul, someone who's as close as blood to them, and tried to use her and them as a weapon in her fight against Belasco... it's equally understandable. Not recognising that and talking them down calmly instead of threatening further harm on a bunch of kids who've already bled and suffered way beyond their years was SAM'S fault, not theirs.