History Characters / SaintsRow

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!!Jezebel

The king of pirates himself. Blackbeard has set up a recreation of his ships out in the wasteland of hell.

->'''Played By:''' Tim Thomerson, RichardEpcar (''SRIV'' prologue only)

* BondageIsBad: She takes the form of a dominatrix and attepts to completely take over the entire simulation and turn everyone in it into her pets. Given that she is up against the [[BadassCrew Saints]] it doesn't go too well.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: He only shows up in person during the last mission of the game to [[spoiler:explain the zin's technology to the Boss, who is now his new emperor.]]

* ViralMarketing: He has a twitter account.

* RhymesOnADime: In the style of a DrSeuss book, like HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Starts to have this attitude in the second game.

->'''Played By:''' Uncredited ([=SR1=]), large number of voice options thereafter[[note]]Male Voice 1: Charles Shaughnessy (''2''), Creator/TroyBaker (''3'' and ''IV''), Male Voice 2: Kenn Michael (''2'', ''3'' and ''IV''), Male Voice 3: Alex Mendoza (''2''), Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (''3'' and ''IV''), Female Voice 1: Katie Semine (''2''), Creator/LauraBailey (''3'' and ''IV''), Female Voice 2: [[ Creator/GinaBowes G.K Bowes]] (''2''), TaraPlatt (''3''), Diane Michelle (''IV'') Female Voice 3: Rebecca Sanabria (''2'' and ''3''), Creator/SumaleeMontano (''IV''), Zombie: Creator/SteveBlum (''3''), [[AsHimself Nolan North]]: Creator/NolanNorth (''IV'')[[/note]]

->'''Played By:''' Uncredited ([=SR1=]), large number of voice options thereafter[[note]]Male Voice 1: Charles Shaughnessy (''2''), Creator/TroyBaker (''3'' and ''IV''), Male Voice 2: Kenn Michael (''2'', ''3'' and ''IV''), Male Voice 3: Alex Mendoza (''2''), Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (''3'' and ''IV''), Female Voice 1: Katie Semine (''2''), Creator/LauraBailey (''3'' and ''IV''), Female Voice 2: G.K Bowes (''2''), TaraPlatt (''3''), Diane Michelle (''IV'') Female Voice 3: Rebecca Sanabria (''2'' and ''3''), Creator/SumaleeMontano (''IV''), Zombie: Creator/SteveBlum (''3''), [[AsHimself Nolan North]]: Creator/NolanNorth (''IV'')[[/note]]

* DaddysLittleVillain: She doesn't want to marry the Boss, but she isn't really opposed to her father otherwise.

The prince of darkness himself. He kidnaps the Boss and transports them to hell to marry his daughter, forcing Johnny Gat and Kenzie to save them.

* GirlyBruiser: Female 1 voice of ''The Third'', who says things relating stereotypical feminine traits of herself unashamedly... as {{Bond One Liner}}s.

* BiTheWay: All party members can be romanced by a boss of either gender

** ''Definitely'' with Gat. The Boss leaps into action as soon as he/she learns about his murder trial in 2, in ''The Trouble with Clones'' in 3 there's no question the Saints are going to go help [[spoiler: Johnny Tag even though he's a flawed clone of Gat and not actually Gat]], and in 4 as soon as there's even a whiff of a chance that Gat is bouncing around inside the Zin Matrix the Boss is demanding to go after him.

* {{Acrofatic}}: You can make your Boss fat (ranging from "chubby" fat to "gives TheNotoriousBIG a run for his money" fat), and s/he'll still be able to sprint and jump without a hitch. Regarding the sprint, you can unlock infinite sprint... meaning you can run laps around the city and ''still'' look like you're in danger of having a heart attack at any minute.

* CombatStilettos: These can be given to the boss, male or not. Note that in some cutscenes, the Boss will be shown walking properly in them; in others, he/she will be walking flatfooted despite the shoes being actual heels.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Female voice 1 muses that when this is all over she might get into politics, and mentions an interest in dancing. Lol and behold, now she's the President and cannot pass up amateur night at a strip club.

The fully-customizable[[note]]In the first game, could only be male[[/note]] protagonist of the series. An anti-heroic ([[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope except in the second game]]) [[TheSociopath sociopath]], the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] protagonist, usually referred to as "Playa" in the first game and "Boss" afterwards, rises from an anonymous citizen on the streets of Stilwater recruited by Julius Little into the Third Street Saints, to a lieutenant of the aforementioned gang, the eventual leader of the Saints, an international celebrity, and finally the ''freakin' [[PresidentEvil President of the United States]]''. According to pre-release information for ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'', he eventually becomes [[spoiler:GodEmperor of the Universe]].

** Veers straight into [[Analysis/AntiHero Unscrupulous Hero]] in Saints Row IV, wherein s/he not only expresses concern for the people under their jurisdiction as President, but also spends the ''entire game'' working to save people and take down the BigBad. And as the game takes place largely inside a simulation, technically s/he never commits any crimes at all.

* BadBadActing: The Boss simply cannot act, at all. Either on movie sets, or when his/her life really does depend on it while they're impersonating Cyrus Temple.

* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from Julius' lieutenant to a borderline psychopath in the second game. The range of voice options can elaborate this further. The third game has Boss come across as more level headed than [[KillEmAll Shaundi]], helped further by player input on certain decisions (nuke the Syndicate's headquarters or keep it as a base, use zombie gas to create more homies or dispose of it, sacrifice Shaundi to go after Killbane or save her). Third-game Boss isn't as bitter or vengeful with Julius dead, enjoying the power and celebrity status earned from taking over Stillwater and fighting the Syndicate head on. By Saints Row IV Boss admits he honestly, genuinely, cares about his crew and would do anything to protect them.

** Also in the third game Boss doesn't like the way the director of the movie (that he/she happens to be staring in) treats the co-star actress, and quickly begins trying to screw with him in an effort to get him to stop. This is even though the director does nothing but praise whatever Boss does. They also try to get the poor girl to stand up for herself so he won't pick on her so much.
** In ''The Trouble With Clones'' Boss becomes kind of heroic, fighting off an army division attacking Pierce and [[spoiler: Johnny Tag,]] even showing remorse for the Saints [[spoiler: failing Gat.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Of sorts. The SignatureSong in ''SaintsRow2'' and ''SaintsRowTheThird'' were DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and VillainSong in tone. Two of the signature tracks in the fourth game are positively heroic and play when Boss commits positively heroic deeds, and even if s/he does make one strange President there's no question Boss is a lot better than before.

* ImplacableMan: Both in and out of gameplay, assuming you do enough diversions. Blowing up The Boss just gets him/her pissed off, and in the second game, the full complement of perks means that the Boss can jump out of a plane, get hit by three exploding trucks [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]], and take a point-blank shotgun blast to the face without going down.
** The third turns this UpToEleven once you get around max respect level, with several upgrades making him/her ''immune'' to each type of damage. It can get to the point where Boss can only be harmed by melee attackers.
* InexplicablyAwesome: Throughout all the games, we never get anything more than tantalising glimpses into their MysteriousPast, never anything concrete that explains just how some random schmuck remade him/herself into the most deadly person on the planet.
* InsistentTerminology: He prefers the term "puckish rogue" to "sociopath".
** "Sociopath" also seems to be a bit of insistent terminology. Despite some of their more questionable actions, by SaintsRowIV the character cares too much about the other Saints to be deemed as much.

*** Also, Female 1 tells Zimos that her name is Martha Washington, he doesn't buy that either.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Maero originally believes that The Boss is just a washed-up gangbanger and therefore gives him/her a pitiful proposition. He REALLY regrets this as the gang war between them becomes increasingly brutal and vicious.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: In Saints Row 4 he becomes POTUS. Definitely be President Action, but since he's also a major criminal, also be PresidentEvil.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The Ronin and Brotherhood missions especially consist of increasingly bloody games of tit-for-tat between The Boss and whoever's stupid enough to try and hurt the other Saints. The Boss' ''main'' motivation for total war against the world's largest criminal syndicate was due to the death of ''one'' Saint.

* PetTheDog: Seems to show genuine care and concern for the Saints, especially the lieutenants. [[spoiler: This is especially apparent with his/her reaction to having to MercyKill Carlos]].

** Gets a big one with Matt in the 4th game. [[spoiler:Since s/he is one of the last human leaders s/he gives Matt, a big Nyteblade fan, control of the entire Nyteblade franchise.]] Matt is left nearly speechless.
** If you think about everything Boss does over the quantrilogy there's a lot s/he doesn't have to do to be nice, but does so anyway. Help out who s/he's friends with, befriends a number of allies, lots of little and not so little strokes of the pooch throughout the four games.
** According to Keith, The Boss holds Donnie Wong in higher regard than Maero. Which is touching in a way, considering all they ever did was bully the poor guy.

* ProtagonistWithoutAPast: In the first game, he's just an ordinary schmuck who happens to walk right into a gang war, without any backstory. Was he a criminal beforehand, or a law-abiding citizen seduced by the criminal lifestyle? We don't find out. However, along with having ''way'' more dialogue, we get some small tidbits of info. For example, s/he mentions coming to a bordello since s/he was a teenager, and one of the female voices reveals that her father loved guns and told her that you could never have enough. Plus, the events of the first game ''are'' your protagonist's past now. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in 4 when the Boss says flat out that no one cares who s/he was before s/he joined the Saints.

* TheScrooge: As shown in ''How the Saints Saved Christmas'', s/he is ''not'' a Christmas fan. Getting him/her out of this is one of the main plot points of the DLC.

* SilentBob: In the first game the Boss only has four spoken lines, in the sequel s/he speaks just as much as any other character. This is also {{lampshaded}} in the second game.

** {{Lampshaded}} again during [=SR4=], during a throwback mission to [=SR1=], where s/he says, "I was too scared to talk back then."

* TheSociopath: Cares for lieutenants, but makes it clear that s/he's in the gang scene for the perks and power. Has nothing but contempt for [[spoiler:Julius]]'s attempt to be a "killer with a conscience," with no loyalty to his supposed crew.

* AbsoluteCleavage: With the female boss' sex appeal set at maximum, and while wearing one of several outfits that become available. The "Elegant Couture" dress provides a textbook example of this trope, even if the boss is virtually flat-chested.

* MadeOfIron: Leaps from a moving plane to another moving plane. With no parachute, or cables, or common sense. Plays in traffic for petty change, drives around an angry tiger at high speeds for ''training''.

* StatuesqueStunner: Female Boss' height is set at as least a foot taller than Shaundi, placing her at somewhere in the 6'2 - 6'5 range.

** Blonde ponytail, red tank and black trousers, or jacket and jeans and you have Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}. Crop top and cargoes, WesternAnimation/KimPossible. With a little work you can pull off JohnCena and RicFlair (replete with their signature taunts). All part of the fun of course. There are even tutorials on how to make your Boss into a doppelganger of one of the other Saints, leading to cutscenes with two Johnny Gats conversing with each other, the only concrete difference being the voice.

!! The Playa/The Boss/The President (all incarnations)