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* [[LipstickLesbian LipstickBisexual]]: With Asuka. She is the more feminine of the two, though.
* TheDragon: Serves this role prior to Claude taking it over. [[spoiler: Becomes a DragonAscendant when Salvatore Leone is killed.]]
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* InadequateInheritor: How Salvatore sees his son.
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* RelationshipWritingFumble: A rare reversed example. Most GTA 3 players assumed she was Salvatore Leone's ''daughter'' rather than wife.
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* RelationshipWritingFumble: A rare reversed example. Most MayDecemberRomance: Justified because she's obviously married him for his money. Becomes a RelationshipWritingFumble since, until the last mission, most GTA 3 players assumed she was Salvatore Leone's ''daughter'' rather than wife.
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* KnightTemplar: After falling arrested in 1998, he vows revenge eliminating all rival mafias. Although it could also have to trope in San Andreas, where CJ promises to kill him, his family and everyone close to him.
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* KnightTemplar: After falling arrested in 1998, he vows revenge eliminating all rival mafias. Although it could also have to trope in San Andreas, where CJ he promises to kill him, CJ, his family and everyone close to him.him.
** Thankfully, he doesn't know who CJ is.
** Thankfully, he doesn't know who CJ is.
* RealityEnsues: Salvatore Leone promises to make you a Made Man for destroying the SPANK factory. This is done in unseemly haste by mob standards. [[spoiler: Because he doesn't intend to let you live.]]
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** Arguably, becomes a GenocideBackfire since [[spoiler: Claude]] hadn't yet shown any sign of trying to betray him.
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** AmbiguouslyEvil given we don't know Claude's motivations. Likewise, his actions are less extreme than latter protagonists.
* (Anti)-HeroicMime - The implication is that he genuinely lacks the ability to verbalize.
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** This may or may not be {{Fanon}}, though, due to the only "evidence" being CJ accusing him of being a mute in GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas. If true, however, it may be an AscendedMeme.
* BestServedCold: One interpretation of the game is that all of Claude's murders, mayhem, and madness was all to get at Catalina.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Claude's way of dealing with defining trait. Claude will turn on ''anyone'' as long as there's money to be made.
** JustifiedTrope in hisvarious employers.long-time lover and confidant, Catalina, did the exact same thing to him. [[spoiler: Salvatore Leone does the same thing to him as well]]
* TheDogBitesBack: Catalina is implied to use, abuse, and discard men like tissue paper. Claude is the first to get back at her.
** JustifiedTrope in his
* TheDogBitesBack: Catalina is implied to use, abuse, and discard men like tissue paper. Claude is the first to get back at her.
* HazyFeelTurn: Due to Claude's silence, we never actually get his opinions on any of his employer and whether or not he felt any loyalty to them whatsoever.
* ItsPersonal: It's subtle Claude's betrayals become much more pronounced and cold-blooded once Catalina (re)enters the picture.
* TheMafia: Briefly becomes a member of it after a member invites him to join. [[spoiler: It ends when Salvatore comes to the conclusion Claude is sleeping with his wife.]]
** Later joins TheYakuza.
* TheMafia: Briefly becomes a member of it after a member invites him to join. [[spoiler: It ends when Salvatore comes to the conclusion Claude is sleeping with his wife.]]
** Later joins TheYakuza.
* MistakenForCheating: [[spoiler: Salvatore thinks Claude is sleeping with his wife. Mostly because Maria said they were.]]
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* NoNameGiven - The name "Claude" was first found in [[AllThereInTheScript in-game files]], and later confirmed in ''San Andreas''.
* PunnyName: Assuming he is the aforementioned Claude Speed.
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* NoNameGiven - The name "Claude" was first found in [[AllThereInTheScript in-game files]], and later confirmed in ''San Andreas''.
Andreas.''
*PunnyName: Assuming {{Revenge}}: An obvious motive for Claude.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Claude's position with [[spoiler: Maria and Asuka]] is extremely nice but heis the aforementioned Claude Speed.endangers it to work for [[spoiler: Donald Love]]. An AlternateCharacterInterpretation would be it's a simple case of MoneyDearBoy.
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* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: His accent is far stronger and more stereotypical than Asuka. Lampshaded in his bio, which claims that his "funny way of speaking" is one of the reasons he's lower on the Yakuza chain of command than Asuka.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: At Claude'shands.hands, in order to spark an all-out gang war between the Yakuza and the Colombian Cartel.]]
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!! Ray Machowski
* DirtyCop
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When he realises that the CIA and Internal Affairs are out for him.
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* [[spoiler: UngratefulBastard: Puts a bomb on your car after you save his life, twice.]]
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* [[spoiler: UngratefulBastard: Puts a bomb on your car after you save his life, twice. Though to be fair, it's likely he didn't even know that bomb was meant for you.]]
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The current patriarch of the Leone Crime Family, one of the most influential and respected gangs to roam Liberty City. His operates out of Portland, particularly the St. Mark's district.
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* ComedicSociopath
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* AffablyEvil: When he is in a good mood, Incredibly avoided when he is angry. Despite its aggressive and vindictive personality, what he values most is loyalty.
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* [[spoiler: MoralEventHorizon: ''If'' he killed Maria. Many fans felt he crossed this.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Despite its aggressive and vindictive personality, what he values most is loyalty.
* AntiVillain: Somewhat.
* AxCrazy: Sometimes. Many times because of his paranoia.
* AntiVillain: Somewhat.
* AxCrazy: Sometimes. Many times because of his paranoia.
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* AffablyEvil: When he is in a good mood, Incredibly avoided when he is angry. Despite its aggressive and vindictive personality, what he values most is loyalty.
*AntiVillain: Somewhat.
*AxCrazy: Sometimes. Many times because of his paranoia.paranoia.
* BadassGrandpa: In GTA: Liberty City Stories.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Finally got what he deserved in GTA III.]]
** Doubly so, that it comes at the hands of [[spoiler: Maria and Claude]].
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Finally got what he deserved in In GTA III.]]
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* AntiHero (Type V)
* AxCrazy: More specifically in the mission "Dead Meat" (from GTA: Liberty City Stories) where he, indignant to be enduring Giovanni Casa, Toni proceeds to brutally dismember him with an ax, and finally ''carrying their leftover meat to his butchery!''
* AxCrazy: More specifically in the mission "Dead Meat" (from GTA: Liberty City Stories) where he, indignant to be enduring Giovanni Casa, Toni proceeds to brutally dismember him with an ax, and finally ''carrying their leftover meat to his butchery!''
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!! Joey Leone
Salvatore Leone's son and Underboss of the Leone Crime Family. He's not very involved in the family business, preferring to work on his garage business. He's Misty's boyfriend (or at least her most recurring customer, given her line of work), but Joey does give Claude some work by having him collect some debts that the Forelli Brothers owe to the Leone Family.
* BadassDriver: Implied to be involved in street racing and supes up some excellent sports cars.
* WrenchWench: A male equivalent of this trope
* WellDoneSonGuy: Joey Leone is not very involved in Mafia business beyond car thefts and the occasional robbery or debt collection, and as such, it is implied in LCS Salvatore trusts Toni Cipriani more than him.
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* [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn: In GTAIII. GTAIII.]]
* [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn: Along with the entire Cipriani family.]]
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* PunchClockVillain
* [[spoiler: UngratefulBastard: Puts a bomb on your car after you save his life, twice.]]
* [[spoiler: UngratefulBastard: Puts a bomb on your car after you save his life, twice.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Of Donald Trump
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!! Kenji Kasen
The brother of Kenji and owner of Kenji's Casino in Liberty City. He is the co-leader of the Yakuza in the city.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: At Claude's hands.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Belittles Claude constantly for his Gajin heritage.
* TheYakuza
The brother of Kenji and owner of Kenji's Casino in Liberty City. He is the co-leader of the Yakuza in the city.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: At Claude's hands.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Belittles Claude constantly for his Gajin heritage.
* TheYakuza
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* PornStache - In Vice City StoriesStories.
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** AmbiguouslyEvil given we don't know Claude's motivations. Likewise, his actions are less extreme than latter protagonists.
* ChronicBackstabbingSyndrome: Claude's way of dealing with his various employers.
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* BigBad: With Catalina in GTAIII.
* [[spoiler: DiscOneFinalBoss: You eliminate him as your first act upon reaching the second island.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Finally got what he deserved in GTA III.]]
** Doubly so, that it comes at the hands of [[spoiler: Maria and Claude]].
** Doubly so, that it comes at the hands of [[spoiler: Maria and Claude]].
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** Though she does warn you about Salvatore's betrayal and sets you up with Asuka.
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* TheLoad
[[KilledOffForReal: One possible interpretation of the ending.]]
* TheLoad: The source of endless amounts of trouble for both Tony and Claude.
** [[spoiler: Though she does warn you about Salvatore's betrayal and sets you up with Asuka.]]
* TheLoad: The source of endless amounts of trouble for both Tony and Claude.
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* AllThereInTheScript - Her surnamesurname.
* DepravedBisexual: Hovers between this and BiTheWay.
* DepravedBisexual: Hovers between this and BiTheWay.
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Asuka is the head of the Yakuza in Libety City. A fierce rival to the Leone family, she is an old friend ''old friend'' of Maria's.
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* BrainsAndBondage: Is one of the most erudite characters. Is also into BDSM.
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Asuka is the head of the Yakuza in Libety City. A fierce rival to the Leone family, she is an old friend of Maria's.
* DepravedBisexual: Her second meeting with Claude more or less implies she's sleeping with Maria and is happy to do the same with Claude if he is willing to prove himself.
* DragonLady: Has shades of this.
* NobleDemon
Asuka is the head of the Yakuza in Libety City. A fierce rival to the Leone family, she is an old friend of Maria's.
* DepravedBisexual: Her second meeting with Claude more or less implies she's sleeping with Maria and is happy to do the same with Claude if he is willing to prove himself.
* DragonLady: Has shades of this.
* NobleDemon
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!!Claude (VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII)
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Our "hero" in the series's first 3D title - a very competent street thug betrayed by his girlfriend Catalina during a bank heist. Escaping police custody, he goes on an epic quest in Liberty City to make as much money as possible, destroy things, kill people, and take revenge at some point.
* AntiHero (Type V)/ VillainProtagonist
* (Anti)-HeroicMime - The implication is that he genuinely lacks the ability to verbalize.
* {{Badass}}
* TheCameo - Has an appearance on a movie poster in Vice City, and in IV, Niko can don his leather jacket and green pants. In addition, graffiti with his name on it can be seen in an apartment building.
* DrivesLikeCrazy
* HellBentForLeather
* MeaningfulName - Claude is Latin for "lame". GTA III Claude is a mute.
* MythologyGag - Compare to "Claude Speed" of the ''Grand Theft Auto 2'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-9NtgpNg4E intro movie]]. He's commonly thought to be the exact same character after a tongue-ectomy.
* NoNameGiven - The name "Claude" was first found in [[AllThereInTheScript in-game files]], and later confirmed in ''San Andreas''.
* SuperDrowningSkills - Handwaved by saying Liberty's water is essentially toxic.
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[[folder: The Leone Crime Family]]
!!Salvatore Leone
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* AffablyEvil: Despite its aggressive and vindictive personality, what he values most is loyalty.
* AntiVillain: Somewhat.
* AxCrazy: Sometimes. Many times because of his paranoia.
* BigBad: With Catalina in GTAIII.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:CJ doublecrossing him]] in ''San Andreas'' ends up turning him into the ultra-paranoid wacko he becomes in ''III''.
* DiabolicalMastermind
* TheDon
* EvilVersusEvil: All the time.
* FaceHeelTurn: In GTAIII.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/TheGodfather Vito Corleone]].
* KnightTemplar: After falling arrested in 1998, he vows revenge eliminating all rival mafias. Although it could also have to trope in San Andreas, where CJ promises to kill him, his family and everyone close to him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Finally got what he deserved in GTA III.
* ProperlyParanoid - The only person he does not seems to distrust is Toni Cipriani, and he even holds him at gunpoint once.
* [[TrashTalk Trash Talker]] - Quite often, especially with Maria in LCS and members of rival gangs.
* VillainProtagonist: Only in GTA: Liberty City Stories.
!!Maria Latore
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Salvatore Leone's much-suffering wife. Maria willfully cheats on him, uses drugs, and shows no interest in him. [[spoiler: Later becomes involved with Claude, where her feelings become more genuine.]] Becomes a supporting character in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories Grand Theft Liberty City Stories]]'' Stories and has a cameo in GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas.
* AllThereInTheScript - Her surname
* {{Golddigger}}: Is only with Salvatore Leone because of his money.
* TheLoad
* MafiaPrincess - ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories LCS]]'' sees her in the middle of the life, and ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII III]]'' sees her at the tail-end of it.
* RelationshipWritingFumble: A rare reversed example. Most GTA 3 players assumed she was Salvatore Leone's ''daughter'' rather than wife.
* YourCheatingHeart
!!Toni Cipriani (VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories)
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First appeared in ''GTAIII'' as a Capo for Liberty City's dominant Leone Mafia family. Later used as the protagonist of the prequel title ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories,'' where he has returned from a long absence to help organize said family's success. Has an unsupportive, domineering mother who embarrasses him at every turn.
* AntiHero (Type V)
* AxCrazy: More specifically in the mission "Dead Meat" (from GTA: Liberty City Stories) where he, indignant to be enduring Giovanni Casa, Toni proceeds to brutally dismember him with an ax, and finally ''carrying their leftover meat to his butchery!''
* {{Badass}}
* BasementDweller
* TheComicallySerious
* HeyItsThatVoice: Michael "[[Film/ReservoirDogs Mr. Blonde]]" Madsen in ''III''.
* KarmaHoudini
* MommasBoy
* RetiredBadass: By the time of GTAIII he's no longer working the streets, but in his day he could bust heads with the best of them.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Back in Liberty and the water is still as good for you as a heart attack
* VillainProtagonist
* WellDoneSonGuy
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[[folder: The Yakuza]]
!! Asuka
* TheYakuza
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[[folder: The Cartel]]
!!Catalina (Grand Theft Auto III)
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Claude's ex-girlfriend; she shoots him in the bank heist getaway and leaves him for dead. Catalina appears at various points throughout the game in league with anyone Claude's working against, although she's primarily associated with the local Colombian Cartel, and in the end she kidnaps Claude's (presumed) latest love interest to force a final showdown.
She also makes an appearance as a supporting character in ''San Andreas''; when C.J. is forced out of Los Santos, her cousin (and C.J.'s sister's boyfriend) Cesar Vialpando sets the two up for a crime spree throughout the countryside. A violent one sided (with Catalina as the active party) love affair begins to take form until she finds Claude, and the two leave the state to harass C.J. with obscene phone calls for the rest of the game.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: "Leave the panic button or I kill your children, too!"
* AxCrazy - In ''GTAIII'', she already shoots two of her apparent love interests, but it goes even further in ''San Andreas'': she has graves dug by her house, she [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale sexually abuses]] C.J. (and still thinks she loves him), she threatens to kill/castrate C.J., and she takes glee in killing any cops or civilians who get in her way.
* BigBad: Of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII''.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder - To be perfectly fair it's served her pretty well until the end of ''GTAIII''.
* ComedicSociopath
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Our first glimpse of her is shooting Claude and his partner, then snatching up the stolen money for herself.
** In ''San Andreas'', Carl comes upon her threatening a barful of helpless men with a knife, taunting their lack of masculinity.
--->"You big streak of Yankee piss! I've seen fucking eunuchs with more balls that you!"
* ForTheEvulz- While other antagonist have reasons for their actions against the heroes, she just enjoys robbing and killing.
* FreudianExcuse - This dialogue from ''San Andreas'', made at the conclusion of her robbery missions.
-->Catalina: Carl, you have to be fast and totally ruthless! No fucking about like in the betting shop!\\
CJ: What?! If you hadn't started bustin' things would've been sweet!\\
Catalina: They had to die because you were slow and stupid! [[FreudianSlip Like a big fat brat who eats chocolates while his father gives nothing to his stepdaughter but stale bread]]!\\
CJ: What? Where did that come from?\\
Catalina: Enough! I'm not speaking to you anymore!
* ItsAllAboutMe: She only cares about working by herself, and betrays just about anyone whom she worked with.
* {{Jerkass}} / JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* NoodleImplements: Carl's unpleasant exeperience with Cat's "rack."
* SerialKiller: She has three bodies buried in his yard, and it is unknown why.
* SpicyLatina
* {{Yandere}}: For all her personality issues, she can also go from almost sweet and caring towards Carl and absolutely batshit about killing him on a whim.
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!!8-Ball
A demolitions expert in Liberty City (even though car bombs shops everywhere in the III continuity use his name.) Connected to the Leone family, and a buddy to Claude and (to a greater degree) Mike.
* BaldOfAwesome
* ExpositionFairy
* IOweYouMyLife
!!Phil Cassidy
Phil appears in every single game from the GTA III continuity (with the only exceptions being San Andreas and Advance). He is a weapon-dealer who specializes in big guns...really big guns. His first appearance is in GTA III, where he only appears in one mission, wherein Claude helps him defend his weapon supply from the Colombian Cartel. At this point he wears military clothing and is nicked-named "The One Armed Bandit" because of his left arm he claims to have lost doing a battle in Nicaragua. In Vice City, were his screen time is vastly expanded, it is revealed that never was in the army, but was repeatedly turn down because of bad temper and heavy drinking, and that he, in fact, lost his arm do to an accident with some home distilled alcohol and a homemade bomb. Apparently he would later make his friends keep up the lie. In what is presumably a ContinuityNod, Phil only appears in a short cameo in Liberty City Stories, while Vice City Stories once again features him a bit more prominently.
* TheAlcoholic
* AnArmAndALeg: Contrary to what he says, he didn't lose it in Nicaragua. [[spoiler: Accidentally blew it off in Vice City with a small explosive while drunk.]]
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood:
--> * While being very drunk* "The thing is Vicky boy, my daddy was an angry man. He never, ever told me I was special. In fact - he used to beat me. Especially when he caught me staring at my cousin or my sister. You know what he said to me? He said I'd be better off dead..."
* PhonyVeteran
* PornStache - In Vice City Stories
* TriggerHappy
!!Donald Love
Liberty City's resident media mogul; first introduced in ''Grand Theft Auto III'' seeking Claude's services for [[MacGuffinEscortMission McGuffin escort.]] After having a cameo in ''Vice City'' he comes back as a supporting character - and more neurotic than ever - in ''Liberty City Stories'' as the Leone family's preferred candidate for mayor.
* AffablyEvil: He's impeccably polite and professional, even while planning to invoke a gang war to drive down real estate prices.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: Entering the mob-controlled mayoral race in Liberty City. (hint: ''Not'' [[StrawCharacter as a democrat]]).
* BeardOfSorrow: Sprouts one after losing both the election and his empire in ''Liberty City Stories''.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII III]]'', he's played by [[TwinPeaks Kyle]] [[DesperateHousewives MacLachlan]].
* ImAHumanitarian: Revealed in ''Liberty City Stories'' as clarification of what he did at the "morgue parties" referenced in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII GTA 3]]''.
* TheVoiceless: Due to Kyle Maclachlan's absence in ''Vice City''. He starts to introduce himself to Tommy, but Avery [[LampshadeHanging keeps cutting him off and telling him to shut up.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He simply disappears after all his missions are completed in ''III''.
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[[folder:The Protagonist]]
!!Claude (VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII)
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Our "hero" in the series's first 3D title - a very competent street thug betrayed by his girlfriend Catalina during a bank heist. Escaping police custody, he goes on an epic quest in Liberty City to make as much money as possible, destroy things, kill people, and take revenge at some point.
* AntiHero (Type V)/ VillainProtagonist
* (Anti)-HeroicMime - The implication is that he genuinely lacks the ability to verbalize.
* {{Badass}}
* TheCameo - Has an appearance on a movie poster in Vice City, and in IV, Niko can don his leather jacket and green pants. In addition, graffiti with his name on it can be seen in an apartment building.
* DrivesLikeCrazy
* HellBentForLeather
* MeaningfulName - Claude is Latin for "lame". GTA III Claude is a mute.
* MythologyGag - Compare to "Claude Speed" of the ''Grand Theft Auto 2'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-9NtgpNg4E intro movie]]. He's commonly thought to be the exact same character after a tongue-ectomy.
* NoNameGiven - The name "Claude" was first found in [[AllThereInTheScript in-game files]], and later confirmed in ''San Andreas''.
* SuperDrowningSkills - Handwaved by saying Liberty's water is essentially toxic.
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[[folder: The Leone Crime Family]]
!!Salvatore Leone
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* AffablyEvil: Despite its aggressive and vindictive personality, what he values most is loyalty.
* AntiVillain: Somewhat.
* AxCrazy: Sometimes. Many times because of his paranoia.
* BigBad: With Catalina in GTAIII.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:CJ doublecrossing him]] in ''San Andreas'' ends up turning him into the ultra-paranoid wacko he becomes in ''III''.
* DiabolicalMastermind
* TheDon
* EvilVersusEvil: All the time.
* FaceHeelTurn: In GTAIII.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/TheGodfather Vito Corleone]].
* KnightTemplar: After falling arrested in 1998, he vows revenge eliminating all rival mafias. Although it could also have to trope in San Andreas, where CJ promises to kill him, his family and everyone close to him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Finally got what he deserved in GTA III.
* ProperlyParanoid - The only person he does not seems to distrust is Toni Cipriani, and he even holds him at gunpoint once.
* [[TrashTalk Trash Talker]] - Quite often, especially with Maria in LCS and members of rival gangs.
* VillainProtagonist: Only in GTA: Liberty City Stories.
!!Maria Latore
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Salvatore Leone's much-suffering wife. Maria willfully cheats on him, uses drugs, and shows no interest in him. [[spoiler: Later becomes involved with Claude, where her feelings become more genuine.]] Becomes a supporting character in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories Grand Theft Liberty City Stories]]'' Stories and has a cameo in GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas.
* AllThereInTheScript - Her surname
* {{Golddigger}}: Is only with Salvatore Leone because of his money.
* TheLoad
* MafiaPrincess - ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories LCS]]'' sees her in the middle of the life, and ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII III]]'' sees her at the tail-end of it.
* RelationshipWritingFumble: A rare reversed example. Most GTA 3 players assumed she was Salvatore Leone's ''daughter'' rather than wife.
* YourCheatingHeart
!!Toni Cipriani (VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories)
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First appeared in ''GTAIII'' as a Capo for Liberty City's dominant Leone Mafia family. Later used as the protagonist of the prequel title ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories,'' where he has returned from a long absence to help organize said family's success. Has an unsupportive, domineering mother who embarrasses him at every turn.
* AntiHero (Type V)
* AxCrazy: More specifically in the mission "Dead Meat" (from GTA: Liberty City Stories) where he, indignant to be enduring Giovanni Casa, Toni proceeds to brutally dismember him with an ax, and finally ''carrying their leftover meat to his butchery!''
* {{Badass}}
* BasementDweller
* TheComicallySerious
* HeyItsThatVoice: Michael "[[Film/ReservoirDogs Mr. Blonde]]" Madsen in ''III''.
* KarmaHoudini
* MommasBoy
* RetiredBadass: By the time of GTAIII he's no longer working the streets, but in his day he could bust heads with the best of them.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Back in Liberty and the water is still as good for you as a heart attack
* VillainProtagonist
* WellDoneSonGuy
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[[folder: The Yakuza]]
!! Asuka
* TheYakuza
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[[folder: The Cartel]]
!!Catalina (Grand Theft Auto III)
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Claude's ex-girlfriend; she shoots him in the bank heist getaway and leaves him for dead. Catalina appears at various points throughout the game in league with anyone Claude's working against, although she's primarily associated with the local Colombian Cartel, and in the end she kidnaps Claude's (presumed) latest love interest to force a final showdown.
She also makes an appearance as a supporting character in ''San Andreas''; when C.J. is forced out of Los Santos, her cousin (and C.J.'s sister's boyfriend) Cesar Vialpando sets the two up for a crime spree throughout the countryside. A violent one sided (with Catalina as the active party) love affair begins to take form until she finds Claude, and the two leave the state to harass C.J. with obscene phone calls for the rest of the game.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: "Leave the panic button or I kill your children, too!"
* AxCrazy - In ''GTAIII'', she already shoots two of her apparent love interests, but it goes even further in ''San Andreas'': she has graves dug by her house, she [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale sexually abuses]] C.J. (and still thinks she loves him), she threatens to kill/castrate C.J., and she takes glee in killing any cops or civilians who get in her way.
* BigBad: Of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII''.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder - To be perfectly fair it's served her pretty well until the end of ''GTAIII''.
* ComedicSociopath
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Our first glimpse of her is shooting Claude and his partner, then snatching up the stolen money for herself.
** In ''San Andreas'', Carl comes upon her threatening a barful of helpless men with a knife, taunting their lack of masculinity.
--->"You big streak of Yankee piss! I've seen fucking eunuchs with more balls that you!"
* ForTheEvulz- While other antagonist have reasons for their actions against the heroes, she just enjoys robbing and killing.
* FreudianExcuse - This dialogue from ''San Andreas'', made at the conclusion of her robbery missions.
-->Catalina: Carl, you have to be fast and totally ruthless! No fucking about like in the betting shop!\\
CJ: What?! If you hadn't started bustin' things would've been sweet!\\
Catalina: They had to die because you were slow and stupid! [[FreudianSlip Like a big fat brat who eats chocolates while his father gives nothing to his stepdaughter but stale bread]]!\\
CJ: What? Where did that come from?\\
Catalina: Enough! I'm not speaking to you anymore!
* ItsAllAboutMe: She only cares about working by herself, and betrays just about anyone whom she worked with.
* {{Jerkass}} / JerkWithAHeartOfJerk
* NoodleImplements: Carl's unpleasant exeperience with Cat's "rack."
* SerialKiller: She has three bodies buried in his yard, and it is unknown why.
* SpicyLatina
* {{Yandere}}: For all her personality issues, she can also go from almost sweet and caring towards Carl and absolutely batshit about killing him on a whim.
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[[folder: Other Characters]]
!!8-Ball
A demolitions expert in Liberty City (even though car bombs shops everywhere in the III continuity use his name.) Connected to the Leone family, and a buddy to Claude and (to a greater degree) Mike.
* BaldOfAwesome
* ExpositionFairy
* IOweYouMyLife
!!Phil Cassidy
Phil appears in every single game from the GTA III continuity (with the only exceptions being San Andreas and Advance). He is a weapon-dealer who specializes in big guns...really big guns. His first appearance is in GTA III, where he only appears in one mission, wherein Claude helps him defend his weapon supply from the Colombian Cartel. At this point he wears military clothing and is nicked-named "The One Armed Bandit" because of his left arm he claims to have lost doing a battle in Nicaragua. In Vice City, were his screen time is vastly expanded, it is revealed that never was in the army, but was repeatedly turn down because of bad temper and heavy drinking, and that he, in fact, lost his arm do to an accident with some home distilled alcohol and a homemade bomb. Apparently he would later make his friends keep up the lie. In what is presumably a ContinuityNod, Phil only appears in a short cameo in Liberty City Stories, while Vice City Stories once again features him a bit more prominently.
* TheAlcoholic
* AnArmAndALeg: Contrary to what he says, he didn't lose it in Nicaragua. [[spoiler: Accidentally blew it off in Vice City with a small explosive while drunk.]]
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood:
--> * While being very drunk* "The thing is Vicky boy, my daddy was an angry man. He never, ever told me I was special. In fact - he used to beat me. Especially when he caught me staring at my cousin or my sister. You know what he said to me? He said I'd be better off dead..."
* PhonyVeteran
* PornStache - In Vice City Stories
* TriggerHappy
!!Donald Love
Liberty City's resident media mogul; first introduced in ''Grand Theft Auto III'' seeking Claude's services for [[MacGuffinEscortMission McGuffin escort.]] After having a cameo in ''Vice City'' he comes back as a supporting character - and more neurotic than ever - in ''Liberty City Stories'' as the Leone family's preferred candidate for mayor.
* AffablyEvil: He's impeccably polite and professional, even while planning to invoke a gang war to drive down real estate prices.
* AllElectionsAreSeriousBusiness: Entering the mob-controlled mayoral race in Liberty City. (hint: ''Not'' [[StrawCharacter as a democrat]]).
* BeardOfSorrow: Sprouts one after losing both the election and his empire in ''Liberty City Stories''.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* HeyItsThatVoice: In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII III]]'', he's played by [[TwinPeaks Kyle]] [[DesperateHousewives MacLachlan]].
* ImAHumanitarian: Revealed in ''Liberty City Stories'' as clarification of what he did at the "morgue parties" referenced in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII GTA 3]]''.
* TheVoiceless: Due to Kyle Maclachlan's absence in ''Vice City''. He starts to introduce himself to Tommy, but Avery [[LampshadeHanging keeps cutting him off and telling him to shut up.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He simply disappears after all his missions are completed in ''III''.
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