Beyond the controversy surrounding this franchise, the ''Grand Theft Auto'' games are full of violence. And unlike other franchises, the violence of ''GTA'' tends to show us some ''[[TruthInTelevision very realistic]]'' [[RealismInducedHorror horrors]] of the drug world.

! Games with their own pages.
* ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoIII''
* ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoViceCity''
* ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''
* ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories''
* ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoIV''
** ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned''
** ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony''
* ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoV''
** ''NightmareFuel/GrandTheftAutoOnline''

! General
* The player character himself. To explain, you're living in a city full of bad guys, from corrupt bankers and executives, to mob bosses and serial killers, and you're the one plotting to kill anyone, under the commands, or for [[ItsPersonal personal grudge]], leaving the world with spreaded carcasses and bloody dirty pools.
* The gore detail isn't what you could get away with. Even in 2D Universe games, [[SquashedFlat running over and flattening people under your vehicle]] leaves [[BloodyHorror a nasty blood pool]] behind.

! Game-specific
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'':
** One of the missions for the Russian Mafia require the player to deliver a bus full of Hare Krishnas to a hot dog factory, where they are ''ground alive and turned into hot dogs''. Then the player is tasked with delivering a van full of hot dogs made out of human meat to a [[ImAHumanitarian Diner]]. This is quite possibly the most messed up mission in the whole ''GTA'' franchise!
*** It gets worse; the PC version of the game has the player take a bus full of ''innocent pedestrians'' to the meat factory.
*** And it really doesn't help that you're forced to watch them get turned into meat, all while listening to their cries and screams of pain as they are ground alive. Some even try to escape, but the russians shoot them dead before they can even make a move.
** If you have an [[LightningGun Electrogun]], you could have possibly turning criminals, mob-bosses, and even ''pedestrians'' into ''DemBones''.