History Characters / SaintsRowThePlayerCharacter

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The Boss is fond of doing this, starting from the second game. They helped Gat bury Shogo alive and throw a drug crate at a junkie's wound after the junkie told them what they wanted.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadersip: Obviously. The Boss is the single-largest Badass in the entire series, the leader of a very powerful and influential gang, and eventually, the United States of America.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Obviously. The Boss is the single-largest Badass in the entire series, the leader of a very powerful and influential gang, and eventually, the United States of America.

* GutturalGrowler: The British voices (Male Voice 1 in 2 and Male Voice 3 in The Third and IV) are far raspier than any of the other voices.

Male Voice 1: Andrew Kishino (''1''), Charles Shaughnessy (''2''), Creator/TroyBaker (''3'' and ''IV''), Creator/NolanNorth (''Gat out of Hell'')\\

Female Voice 2: Creator/GinaBowes (''2''), Creator/TaraPlatt (''3''), Diane Michelle (''IV'' and ''Gat out of Hell'')\\

* AnythingThatMoves: ''IV'' gives players the option to "romance" more or less the entire supporting cast, regardless of gender or race. Even a robot.

Male Voice 2: Creator/KennMichael ('1',''2'', ''3'', ''IV'' and ''Gat out of Hell'')\\

Male Voice 1: Uncredited (''1''), Charles Shaughnessy (''2''), Creator/TroyBaker (''3'' and ''IV''), Creator/NolanNorth (''Gat out of Hell'')\\
Male Voice 2: Uncredited (''1''), Creator/KennMichael (''2'', ''3'', ''IV'' and ''Gat out of Hell'')\\
Male Voice 3: Uncredited (''1''), Alex Mendoza (''2''), Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (''3'', ''IV'' and ''Gat out of Hell'')\\

* BerserkButton: The Boss's love of Biz Markie. You don't butcher Biz Markie and get away with it for long. Especially if you're Creator/NolanNorth.

* BadassInCharge: It's telling that there has never been an attempt to dethrone the Boss after assuming power from within the Saints.

* TookALevelInKindness: In ''The Third'', The Boss was noticeably far less sadistic than before even at their worst. in ''IV'', The Boss is outright heroic, being willing to sacrifice themselves to stop the missile, and is shown to care about the safety of their friends. In ''How the Saints Saved Christmas'', The Boss learns about being nice from Santa Claus himself, and the story ends with them as the NiceGuy.

* AttentionWhore: In ''IV'', the President cares too much about their image and PR to indulge in actual presidency. They even signed themselves on a pole-dancing contest solely for the spotlight.

** In ''Saint's Row IV'' as both the Male and Female bosses can romance all their crewmembers (yes, [[{{Polyamory}} ALL of them]]), regardless of gender.

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

** If you listen closely to the ''Saints Row 2'' Hispanic Female Boss when she tries to sing "Take On Me," you might notice that she starts singing along to the keyboard intro several measures too early. ''Twice.'' And then when the keyboard part does start, she nearly misses her cue.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Russian[=/=]Female Voice 3 Boss. Dear God.

* ImmigrantPatriotism: Play the Boss as British or French in ''IV'' and they can furiously berate the Zin for invading "MY country" when they're shooting them down. These two voices even have inaugural speeches defending their right to be elected President despite not being born in the USA.

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

* 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). In the third game, the 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 ''IV'', the Boss admits they honestly, genuinely, care about their crew and would do anything to protect them.

* YourSizeMayVary: In ''1'', they're of average height, in ''2'', they are a head height taller than almost every character. In ''The Third'' and ''IV'', they are about the same height as ''2'' (still taller than [=NPCs=]), but the other Saints have increased in size to match.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Starting in ''2'', both male and female NPCs will randomly flirt with The Boss regardless of The Boss's gender.

* EvenTheBoysWantHim / EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Starting in ''2'', both male and female NPCs will randomly flirt with The Boss regardless of The Boss's gender.

* PurelyAestheticGender: The Boss can be a ScaryBlackMan, a SilverFox, a DarkSkinnedRedhead, a morbidly-obese gender-neutral pig-human ''thing'', [[GenderBender anything else in between]], and it literally affects ''nothing''. Not character interactions, not gameplay, not [[VirtualPaperDoll clothing options]], not even The Boss's views on stripper poles and their regular operators. Hell, returning characters from the first game will only comment on your "haircut", even if your character is female (in the first game, the player character still had a wide variety of customization, but could only be male). WordOfGod has stated that if you play as a female Boss in ''Saints Row 2'', she was a woman in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'' canon-wise.

%% * AngryBlackMan: The default character in "Saints Row 2". Kenn Michael is also the only voice actor to appear in every post-Saints 1 game.