History GrandTheftAutoV / SinglePlayerTropesNToZ

* TrueCompanions: Trevor feels that he, Brad, and Michael were this back when they were a team, and holds the concept of being loyal to your friends to the bitter end very highly. It's particularly why he and Michael's relationship is so strained now, as he feels the latter betrayed the friendship they had when Michael faked his own death and retired from the game.

* UncannyValley: {{Invoked}} in 'Meltdown'. To simulate the film being shot in front of a green screen, the film is recorded using GTA V's character models in front of GTA IV's lower quality Liberty City scenery.

* TapOnTheHead: Dave knocks Michael out at the beginning of "Dead Man Walking". When Michael wakes up at the morgue, he shows no ill effects and is able to take out a whole army of IAA agents.

* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Referenced in-universe. Solomon Richards references this during his first meeting with Michael. He has his own saying: [[UpToEleven Never work with actors or directors]].

** Exploring the ocean can be this when there aren't any sharks around. The deeper you go, the less light there is, and massive underwater cliffs and spires appear practically out of nowhere constantly. The submarine has no radio (unless you're playing the Xbox One, Playstation 4 or PC versions), so you're stuck listening to either the eerie ambient music, the droning of the submarine's engines, or various strange undersea noises. The Next-Gen releases add a healthy dose of nightmare retardant however; While sharks and fish were the only sea creatures present in the original versions, the enhanced editions add Humpback whales, Killer whales and best of all, ''[[FriendlyPlayfulDolphin Dolphins]]'' to keep you company!

* SmokingIsCool: Averted. It is entirely possible to die just from smoking a cigarette or taking a bong hit.

* SirSwearsALot: All three protagonists [[ClusterFBomb drop the F-bomb]] like it's going out of style.

** The town the ColdOpen takes place in is called Ludendorff. Most probably named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff]], a German UsefulNotes/WW1 General and a supporter of Hitler.
** Since North Yankton (the state it's in) is based on North Dakota, that would make it the equivalent of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck,_North_Dakota Bismarck]].

* StatGrinding: Each of the main characters' skills can be increased by using said skills on a regular basis. Some skills are easier to grind than others; the shooting skill in particular can be maxed out by completing all of the Ammunation range challenges, even Franklin's low starting stay.

** The Los Santos soccer team is called The Benders; "bender" is British slang for homosexuals, equivalent to "faggot" in America. Likewise, "bender" is also American slang for a ''serious'' MushroomSamba (and given how drugsaare all over San Andreas, these tend to occur on a daily basis).

* NotSoDifferent:
** Trevor and Michael are both massive assholes; it just shows differently. Trevor acknowledges that he is a horrible person, but he is shown to put great value on loyalty, even if he occasionally bullies his allies. Michael isn't going to kill innocents for looking at him the wrong way, but he is mostly motivated by his own well-being, to the point he makes Franklin work for a guy so he himself would get rewarded, and is shown to be a massive hypocrite on some issues. (Despite his complaints about Amanda's cheating, he cheated on her first). So Trevor is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold with [[HairTriggerTemper some]] [[UnderStatement serious]] [[AxCrazy issues]], while Michael looks sophisticated on the outside but is rotten on the inside. That might be one way to look at it, but another would be that Trevor, of course, is a rapist, cannibal and serial mass murderer of whoever he feels like. Michael and Franklin are only shown killing in self-defense in the main missions. Where the "rot" lies is up to the player, who can make Michael and Franklin as evil as Trevor, if they choose.
** Though Amanda's infidelity is the main focus of a subplot, it's heavily implied by both Amanda and Dr. Friedlander that Michael too frequently cheated on Amanda at some point in their marriage.
** Michael and Franklin, should you go with Ending B. [[spoiler:Franklin betrays and kills Michael for the feds, as he [[IronicEcho sees it as his only way out]] of the situation he's in]].

* ThemeTuneCameo: During Trevor's MushroomSamba involving clowns, the Nightmare Music from ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' plays.

* PointOfNoReturn: After completing the first assassination mission, Franklin moves to a mansion in the upper-class district of Los Santos and can no longer visit his aunt's house or use it as a safehouse - Denise will bar him from entering if he visits, having apparently turned it into a "center for women" during his absence.

* PointOfNoReturn: After completing the first assassination mission, Franklin moves to a mansion in the upper-class district of Los Santos and can no longer visit his aunt's house - Denise will bar him from entering if he visits, having apparently turned it into a "center for women".

* NoodleIncident: If you switch to another character after leaving them alone for long enough, you might find them in the middle of a rather odd situation without any context. For example, switching to Trevor might see him waking up on a mountain in woman's clothing.
* NostalgiaLevel: The mission ''Hood Safari'' takes you back to [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas Grove Street]]'']] ! Although it's also a case of nostalgic TearJerker, since [[spoiler: the hood is now Ballas turf, with the house you have to visit being a smaller, run-down version of the Johnson house.]]

* VehicularSabotage: The reason Michael is captured by a Chinese triad near the end of ''bury the hatchet'' is because Trevor sabotaged his car.

** [[spoiler:during the ColdBloodedTorture sequence where you are offered all sorts of nasty methods to use on Ferdinand Kerimov, the least horrifying out of all the options which won't shock him with a car battery, lose a tooth or get his legs smashed in is waterboarding him. Just doing the latter has him in the best condition when Trevor convinces him to get out of the country.]]
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: There are story missions that give you the choice, or you can just run around town wreaking havoc on everyone unlucky enough to be near you. In-universe, Trevor seems to enjoy this more than anything, even firing off jokes whenever the player kills someone.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: In two of the endings, [[spoiler:if you choose to kill either Michael or Trevor, "hanging out" will be much more difficult for you, since the survivor cuts off contact with Franklin, Michael's family does the same, and Lamar goes into hiding from Stretch. Even worse, certain "hanging out" activities are required, so if you don't remember to do them before you do the deed, OneHundredPercentCompletion is considerably harder to achieve.]]