History Characters / SaintsRow

* [[Characters/SaintsRowTheThirdDJs Saints Row: The Third DJs Radio Hosts]]

* [[Characters/AgentsOfMayhem Agents of Mayhem]]

A list of characters from the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series. Gang affiliation is a big part of the characters' identities, so they're grouped by the gang they work/worked for (if applicable).

Note: Spoilers from all games in the franchise are listed below regardless of when the character entered the franchise, so be warned if you haven't played all of them and wish to remain unspoiled.

* [[Characters/SaintsRowTheThirdRadioHosts]]
* [[Characters/SaintsRowZinEmpire Zin Empire]]

* [[Characters/AgentsOfMayhem Characters appearing in Agents of Mayhem]]

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* Characters/SaintsRowThePlayerCharacter
* Characters/SaintsRowTheThirdStreetSaints
* Characters/SaintsRowGangs
* Characters/SaintsRowUltorCorporation
* Characters/SaintsRowSTAG
* Characters/SaintsRowZinEmpire
* Characters/SaintsRowLegionsOfHell
* Characters/SaintsRowOtherCharacters

[[folder: The Player Character]]

!! The Playa/The Boss/The President/[[spoiler:The God emperor for life of the universe]] (all incarnations)
->'''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 (''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]]

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'', they eventually become [[spoiler:GodEmperor of the Universe]].

''Main Tropes''

* AntiHero: On good days... they don't come often.
** Mellows out considerably in the third game, and not ''quite ''willing to commit as many atrocities as in Saints Row 2, with several PetTheDog moments. However, the Boss is still quite the nasty piece of work and therefore, remains a VillainProtagonist.
** 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 they never commit any crimes at all.
* AscendedFanboy: The Boss working for Burt Reynolds.
** Female voice 1, going by the number of movie references, is evidently a film buff. She's basically living out a gangster version of ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'' with the action [[UpToEleven up to a hundred and eleven.]]
* 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.
* {{Badass}}: It would be easier to describe the ways the Boss isn't a badass.
** BadassBoast: Lots of voice options means lots of boasts.
---> '''Female 2''': ''(Defending against Zin)'' I will kill enough of you to build a ladder back to Earth!
** BadassInANiceSuit: One of the possible starter clothing choices in VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird.
** BadassInCharge: It's telling that there has never been an attempt to dethrone the Boss after assuming power from within the Saints.
** BadassInDistress: In VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell, he/she is kidnapped by Satan. The entire plot is to go ToHellAndBack and save him/her.
** BadassNormal: In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', the President is able to go hand-to-hand with Zinyak, an alien twice his size. They appear evenly matched until Zinyak invokes his psychic powers.
*** EmpoweredBadassNormal: The Boss gains superpowers in Saints Row 4, though only in the simulation and [[spoiler: in the finale thanks to PoweredArmor]].
** CulturedBadass: Supporting the idea that the Boss's BookDumb aspects are mere ObfuscatingStupidity, they call themselves a "Puckish Rogue" in Saints Row VI (referring to Puck in Shakespeare's AMidsummerNightsDream), and are repeatedly mentioned to be fans of Creator/JaneAusten (on top of the Creator/TroyBaker Boss voice confessing that he read Literature/JaneEyre 13 times near the end of VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird).
* BadBadActing: The Boss simply cannot act, at all. Either on movie sets, or when their life really does depend on it while they're impersonating Cyrus Temple.
* BenevolentBoss: Despite being a [[TheSociopath Sociopath]], Boss is very protective and fair to subordinates so long as they stay loyal.
* BerserkButton: In the sequels, harming the Boss's subordinates is enough for them to take a break from carefree mayhem and give the perpetrator their ''full'' attention.
** Also betrayal, you can be an undercover cop or a former rival gang member but never fuck with the Boss when it comes to loyalties or your own personal grim reaper will hunt you to the ends of the earth.
** You honor the dead. Doesn't matter who you are, you honor the dead. Interrupting a funeral will have Boss help the mourner literally bury those who do so alive, unleash TheDragon to go on an AxCrazy RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and if you so choose go terrorist.
*** Makes one wonder what they'd do to the [[AcceptableReligiousTargets Westboro Baptist Church]].
** A more minor and humorous example is in the Boss's love of BizMarkie. You don't butcher Biz Markie and get away with it for long. Especially if you're NolanNorth.
--> "Zinyak! Zinyak, you leave Biz Markie alone! You leave Markie out of this!! Oh, you sunuvabitch...I'M GONNA KILL YOU! '''''IT'S NOT OPERA!!!!!'''''"
** In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', when Matt Miller suggests that [[spoiler:rescuing Johnny Gat]] is a bad idea, the Boss knocks him to the ground with a MegatonPunch and starts beating the shit out of him; had the other Saints not intervened, the Boss may well have beaten poor Matt to death.
* BiTheWay: All party members can be romanced by the Boss, regardless of gender.
* BookDumb: Zig-zagged. At times the Boss comes across as downright stupid, but there are occasional hints that it's of the [[ObfuscatingStupidity obfuscating]] variety and every once in a while the Boss says something genuinely insightful or smart (which almost always results in a shocked reaction from the other characters).
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When you call up Keith David and [[spoiler: Maero]] as homies, Keith tells [[spoiler: Maero]] that he has never heard the Boss talk about him [[spoiler: or the Brotherhood]]. [[spoiler: Maero]] thinks it's because of this trope and figures the Boss probably doesn't bother thinking twice about the people they have killed. It's then subverted when Keith points out that the Boss has talked about the other gangs, their respective leaders and even [[ButtMonkey Donnie Wong]].
* CatchPhrase:
** "It's our time now! Let's get this shit started!" (Which is a BorrowedCatchphrase from Julius in the first game.)
** "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Fuck. That.]]" (Which becomes something of a SharePhrase in the fourth game.)
* 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 Saints Row IV the Boss admits they honestly, genuinely, care about their crew and would do anything to protect them.
** At least one voice in the third game mentions having a therapist, so that could be a contributing factor.
* CombatPragmatist: No matter the danger or absurdity of the situation, the Boss ''will find a way to win''. In addition to taking hostages, false surrenders, and having truly ludicrous proficiency with improvised weapons (fire hydrants, giant purple dildos, bricks etc), Boss is a master of psychological warfare. The Boss is perfectly willing to target loved ones, use humiliation tactics like winning a televised wrestling match against an enemy, or making demoralizing public media declarations.
* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Finished most of the gang leaders in the series like this. [[spoiler: Benjamin King briefly allies himself with the Saints after being betrayed by Warren and forced out of the Vice Kings in the first game then gets PutOnABus until IV, Matt Miller in The Third bribes the Boss into allowing him to pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere instead.]]
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster.: [[spoiler:Tells Julius this more or less before his death.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Even in the game where he barely talks.
--> '''Gat:''' "I'm gonna skull fuck that bitch."
--> '''Playa:''' "Hope you don't mind hepatitis."
* {{Determinator}}: Might as well be a walking talking death machine.
** Even when stoned, the Boss can still fight off enemies ''en masse''.
* DevilInPlainSight: Given the impossibility of keeping the Boss dead or in jail.
* TheDragon: To Julius Little in the first game.
** DragonAscendant: The Boss reconstitutes the Saints under their own control after awakening from their coma in ''Saints Row 2''.
** DragonInChief: The Playa is much, much tougher than Julius. [[spoiler:So much so that Julius tries to kill them because he's so frightened of their growing power.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Of course, this depends on how you play.
** Regardless of how you play, it's Lampshaded by almost every character who rides shotgun with you. Characters from the first game give a familiar ContinuityNod in regards to it. And Jane waxes poetic about your vehicular carnage.
** Here's something well hidden. Call up a homie then when they arrive dismiss them. S\he will get in their vehicle and take off. You can jump in the passenger seat and now Boss will give them crap over their driving. It's best to have a load of flashbangs to freak out your homie and any driver\passengers to encourage accidents.
-->[[TheMiz "Really? Really?"]]
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:In the second game, it was revealed that Julius tried to kill the Boss by destroying the Yacht seen in the finale.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Boss might be an amoral crime lord, but is still horrified after seeing [[spoiler: the corpses of people experimented on by Ultor]] in the ''Ultor Exposed'' DLC.
** Again in the third game. Murder, theft, human trafficking, insurance fraud, and wanton destruction are all fine. Hypercommercialisation, on the other hand, is something the Boss starts having doubts about. This may or may not stick depending on the ending chosen.
** In "Takeover the City" mission of ''The Third'' the Boss is noticeably disturbed when Pierce talks about collecting sex dolls.
** Also in the third game Boss doesn't like the way the director of the movie (that they happen to be starring 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]].
** Boss also draws the line at [[spoiler:nuclear war and ''human'' genocide]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Make no mistake, the Boss has a sadistic streak underneath that puckish roguery.
* ForTheEvulz: By the time of the second game, Boss made it clear that liberating the city for peace wasn't a priority anymore. The final lines of Saints Row 2 confirm this. "This is our city [now], we do whatever the fuck we want." Downplayed somewhat in later games.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The first game begins with the Playa just walking down a street before being caught in a gang fight and co-opted into the Saints. Needless to say, Boss takes to the lifestyle like a duck to water.
** With the Boss' election as President of the US in [[VideoGame/SaintsRowIV Saint's Row IV]], they may very well have become the full-fledged champion of this trope. [[spoiler:And then the same person [[UpToEleven becomes]] the President[=/=]GodEmperor for Life of the Universe after taking over the Zin Empire, as shown in VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell.]]
* GarbageWrestler: The only way the Boss was able to fight Killbane in Murderbrawl.
* HeelFaceTurn: Of sorts. The SignatureSong in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' and ''VideoGame/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 they do make one strange President there's no question Boss is a lot better than before.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Inverted, the Boss starts Saints Row 2 as a vengeful gangbanger out for power and revenge. By the time Saints Row IV happens, the Saints are acknowledged as the closest thing Boss has to family, and goes so far as to save America from a nuclear strike and fight an alien invasion. Still a jerkass though.
* ImplacableMan: Both in and out of gameplay, assuming you do enough diversions. Blowing up the Boss just gets them 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 them ''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 themselves into the most deadly person on the planet.
* InsistentTerminology: They prefer the term "puckish rogue" to "sociopath".
** "Sociopath" also seems to be a bit of insistent terminology. Despite some of their more questionable actions, by ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' the Boss cares too much about the other Saints to be deemed as much.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Starts to have this attitude in the second game as they do things for their own benefit and personal reasons. It levels out somewhat in third game, but by the fourth game, the Boss' selfish attitude rises to a new level; the game opens with the Boss, the President of the United States, suffering a massive PR disaster since they proposed that the phrase "One nation under me" should replace "One nation under God". When helping Asha escape from her personal nightmare, the Boss keeps thinking that by having an evil twin in Asha's nightmare, it's about the Boss overall. CID also questions why the Boss keeps giving Pierce no respect at all, despite how Pierce always stayed loyal and gave ideas to help the Boss (The Boss claims they rag Pierce in good fun rather than malicious intent). It isn't until the Boss [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech gets called out for their selfish attitude and taking advantage of others]] by someone who had stayed loyal to them that the Boss starts to think about others for a change.
* {{Jerkass}}: On a bad day. [[PersonOfMassDestruction And that's putting it lightly...]]
--> '''The Boss:''' Evil Me is kind of an asshole.\\
'''Asha:''' Good You is kind of an asshole.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the third game, shows sincere affection and concern for their allies. Of course, the degree to which the gold shows in gameplay is [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential dependent on the player.]]
* KickTheDog\KickTheSonOfABitch: The Boss is fond of doing this, starting from the second game. Arguably the most brutal example was crippling Matt's hand with fireworks. Matt had nothing to do with The Brotherhood other than doing their tattoos and being close friends with Maero. Oh the other hand many still view killing a teenage girl by locking her in a car and having her boyfriend unknowingly run her over at a monster truck rally as the worst thing the Boss ever did, even though she was involved in the murder of Carlos.
* 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''.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Obviously none of the Boss's voice actors are sadistic murderers in RealLife.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Did this to Carlos after the Brotherhood mortally wounded and disfigured him]].
* NoNameGiven: Usually just referred to as the Boss.
** In the third game pairing Boss with Zimos may prompt some dialogue where Boss asks Zimos what his real name is when Zimos says it's "Need to know and you don't". When Zimos asks Boss their name the Russian female boss says her name is ''classified''.
*** Male 3 tells Zimos that his name is Winston Churchill. He doesn't buy it.
*** Also, Female 1 tells Zimos that her name is Martha Washington. He doesn't buy that either.
** The last Heli Assault activity against the Deckers reveals that Kinzie knows the Boss's real name. The Boss promptly tells her to shut up when she starts to say it.
** Was originally planned to be "Mikey" in the first game, but they scrapped it.
** In the fourth game, using the NolanNorth voice makes it clear that you are, in fact, [[AdamWesting playing Nolan North]]. So its possibly to assume that, all this time, the player character was just Nolan North all along.
* 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.
* OneManArmy: Boss is a striding engine of destruction. You can run, but you'll just die trying.
--> '''[[spoiler: Dex:]]''' "I have you outnumbered."
--> '''Boss:''' "Doesn't seem to be helping."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: But of course. Most of the time, they're referred to as "Boss" and sometimes "Player".
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Cockney voice (Male 1) in SR2 was particularly guilty of this, especially because the cutscene dialogue barely changes from one voice to another, which leads the Boss spouting sentences that no English person would ever use. In SR3 and 4, ''Male 3'' takes over as the Cockney voice. the newer voice actor is far more authentic, especially since more English slang words and phrases are inserted in place of Americanisms and any fixed dialogue in cutscenes is written to fit around all the voice characters.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: In Saints Row 4 they become POTUS. Definitely be President Action, but since they're 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.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: By the end of SRTT, the Boss is able to blow up a sky scraper, sink an aircraft carrier, take on a well-armed paramilitary group, bring down a [[AirborneAircraftCarrier flying warship]], [[spoiler: set up a citystate]], aside from kill a truly ungodly number of people.
* PetTheDog: Seems to show genuine care and concern for the Saints, especially the lieutenants. [[spoiler: This is especially apparent with their reaction to having to MercyKill Carlos]].
** In the "Gangstas In Space" DLC Boss is extremely nice to the actress they have to work with. They coach her throughout the DLC to stand up for herself and not take shit from the JerkAss director who insults and belittles her at every chance he gets. Soon they even become friends and she can be called as a homie upon completion of the last mission. [[spoiler:By the end Boss may have rubbed off on her a bit more than they intended...]]
** Gets a big one with Matt in the 4th game. [[spoiler:Since they are one of the last human leaders, they give 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 they don't have to do to be nice, but does so anyway. Help out who they're 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.
** In Saints Row IV, [[EverythingsSexierInFrench French Boss]] in particular comes across as very gentle and kind when speaking to her lieutenants.
* 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, they mention coming to a bordello since they were 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 IV when the Boss says flat out that no one cares who they were before they joined the Saints.
* RedBaron: The Butcher of Stilwater.
* TheScrooge: As shown in ''How the Saints Saved Christmas'', they are ''not'' a Christmas fan. Getting them out of this is one of the main plot points of the DLC.
* ShipperOnDeck: The Boss seems to ship Shaundi/Pierce.
* ShutUpHannibal: To Zinyak, [[spoiler: by ripping his head off]].
* SilentBob: In the first game the Boss only has four spoken lines, in the sequel they speak just as much as any other character. This is also {{lampshaded}} in the second game.
--> [[spoiler:'''Julius''']]: "Jesus...you haven't learned a god damn thing."
--> '''Boss''': "Wrong! I learned that being in charge was better than being a bitch who kept his/her mouth shut and does what s/he's told!"
** Also,
-->'''Aisha''': Oh my god, it's you.\\
'''Boss''': Surprised, Aisha?\\
'''Aisha''': What, that you're here, or that you're talking?\\
'''Boss''': Pick one.
** {{Lampshaded}} again during [=SR4=], during a throwback mission to [=SR1=], where they say, "I was too scared to talk back then."
-->'''Kinzie''': ''[[ServileSnarker That must've been nice]]...''\\
'''Boss''': [[ImStandingRightHere What was that?]]\\
'''Kinzie''': [[ImplausibleDeniability I didn't say anything!]]
* {{Squee}}: Has this reaction big time over Burt Reynolds.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Oh so much in the second game. The voice options are absolute gold.
* TalkativeLoon: Talks even more in the third game.
* TeamDad: Shows shades of this in Saints Row IV towards Shaundi. [[spoiler: Both of them.]]
* TheCaptain: After the first incarnation of the Saints.
* TheSociopath: Cares for lieutenants, but makes it clear that they're 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.
-->[[spoiler:'''Julius:''']] Don't you get it? The Saints didn't solve a goddamn thing. Drugs were still being pushed, innocent people were still being killed... all we did was turn into Vice Kings that wore purple.
-->'''Playa:''' Jesus Christ, you sound like a pussy!
-->[[spoiler:'''Julius:''']] I sound like someone who's not a sociopath.
* TookALevelInBadass: In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Also in ''Saints Row 2''.
* TookALevelInKindness: In ''Saints Row The Third'' and especially in ''Saints Row IV''. ''How the Saints Saved Christmas'' makes Boss heroic to the point [[Franchise/MassEffect Shepard]] would be scouting for them, were it not for, say, killing Julius.
* TrueCompanions: With the Saints, on a good day.
** ''Definitely'' with Gat. The Boss leaps into action as soon as they learn 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.
* TheUnfettered
* UndyingLoyalty: This is the Boss' most important redeeming quality. If you work for him, and he likes you, he will gladly take a bullet for you. If you die, be assured that no matter what happens, he will kill your killer for you.
* VillainProtagonist: Not exactly one of God's best children, being a murderer, drug trafficker, thief, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking possible jaywalker]]. Still, most of the people the Boss kills certainly deserve it.
** Of course, that's in the second game. In the first and third games, the Boss is more of an AntiHero.
** Surprisingly ''{{averted}}'' in ''Saints Row IV''.
* WalkingWasteland: In ''Saints Row IV'', the Buff power allows the Boss to set people on fire, freeze them solid, or electrocute them just by standing near them, while the Sprint Tornado power allows you to destroy whole streets just by running up and down them.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Can adopt wrestling moves in the second game from the Brotherhood.
** The third game, while doing away with four separate fighting styles, incorporates wrestling moves into the Boss's fighting style by default.

''Gender, Race and Playing Style Selection Tropes''

* 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.
* {{Acrofatic}}: You can make your Boss fat (ranging from "chubby" fat to [[Creator/GabrielIglesias "DAMN!"]] fat), and they'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.
* ActionGirl
* AdamWesting: Or to be more specific, [[NolanNorth Nolan Northing.]] The boss with the Nolan North voice ''is'' Nolan North.
* AdolfHitlarious: The third and fourth games allow to create a Hitler look-alike as a player character (complet with a toothbrush mustache). Combined with the goofiness of the game, the effect is interesting.
* AfroAsskicker
* AngryBlackMan: The default character in Saints Row 2. Kenn Michael is also the only voice actor to appear in every post-Saints 1 game.
* AnythingThatMoves: IV gives players the option to "romance" more or less the entire supporting cast, regardless of gender or race. Even a robot.
* AmbiguouslyGay[=/=]DepravedBisexual: Female boss definitely likes girls, even if there's one voice, when stoned, asking if Pierce was interested in her.
** The same voice also ask Johnny if a hospital is a good place to pick up guys and later remarks on phone watching two strippers perform.
*** Can be possibly confirmed as both the Male and Female bosses can romance all their crewmembers (yes, [[{{Polyamory}} ALL of them]]), regardless of gender.
* AndThisIsFor: In the third game, Female 1 voiced Boss will give one when planting each explosive during the final mission of the "Shock and Awe" ending. Makes it all the more poignant.
--> "One for [[spoiler:Shaundi]]..."\\
"One for [[spoiler:Viola]]..."\\
"One for my crew..."\\
"And one just for me..."
* AuthorAvatar: Obviously, it is possible to create one.
* {{Ax Crazy}}
* BadassGrandpa[=/=]NeverMessWithGranny: [[CaptainObvious You can make your Boss be an old man/woman.]]
* BaldofAwesome[=/=]BaldOfEvil
* BloodKnight: Female 1 voice of ''The Third'' clearly loves fighting, with BondOneLiners in combat either deriding her kills as being disappointing or occasionally commending them as a good fight.
* BoobsOfSteel: Possible for a female Boss with the Sex Appeal slider all the way up.
* CallBack: When drunk, she will laugh and laugh and laugh at the joke she made to Gat in the first game.
* CombatStilettos: These can be given to the boss, regardless of gender. Note that in some cutscenes, the Boss will be shown walking properly in them; in others, they will be walking flatfooted despite the shoes being actual heels.
* CulturedBadass[=/=]WickedCultured: Female 1 in ''The Third'' may mention having danced or painted in her BondOneLiners.
* DarkActionGirl: Possible after the first game.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Male 2 mentions that he should call mom more often
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Female 2 in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' has a French accent.
* EvilAlbino: If you're making an albino character, this is what you're getting.
** By ''Saints Row IV'', however, this character arguably turns into a HeroicAlbino.
* EvilBrit: Voiced by Charles Shaughnessy, no less! In Saints Row The Third there is also the option of a British voice, this time voiced by RobinAtkinDownes.
* FatBastard[=/=]FatGirl
* FieryRedhead: If you chose red hair.
* {{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.
* FourMoreMeasures: When singing "What I Got" with Pierce early on in the game, several of the voices will have Boss singing a line too early and noting that they always mess that part up.
* FrenchJerk: Female 2 in ''IV''.
* GirlyBruiser:
** Female 1 voice of ''The Third'', who says things relating stereotypical feminine traits of herself unashamedly... as {{Bond One Liner}}s.
--> ''"[[IBrokeANail Damn, chipped a nail!]]"''\\
''"That's no way to fight a lady!"''\\
''"After that I could use a massage."''
** Female 2 voice from ''IV'' mentions wanting to go shoe-shopping.
* HiddenDepths: Depending on the voice you use s\he be may drop interesting tidbits. Collecting glass unicorns for example. Female 1 apparently went to college and was on a co-ed curling team, while Male 1 has read ''Literature/JaneEyre'' [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes thirteen times]]. The Zombie voice in ''The Third'', during "Three Way", [[spoiler:briefly drops the snarling to say that he's fluent in 6 languages]].
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Russian!Female Boss, dear god.
--> Russian!Female Boss: When I was a child, my father would make me fight the dogs for food. <sighs> It made me who I am today.
** The English Boss also drops hints of this during the "Gangstas In Space" missions:
---> "This is worse than finding out the tooth fairy was just my drunk uncle with a pair of pliers..."
* HimeCut: One of the hair styles available in ''Saints Row IV''.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: In the third game, with the Zombie voice option.
* KnifeNut
* LeanAndMean
* TheLadette: Played straight with all the female voices in Saints Row 2 and the Russian and Latina voices in The Third. Female voice 1 in TT also counts, but she does occasionally show a feminine side. The Latina voice is this trope to a T though.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Along with EasySexChange
** [[spoiler:Exploited in '''The Third'', using it to look like Cyrus Temple to infiltrate an aircraft carrier for the purpose of rescuing Shaundi imprisoned there.]]
* MagicSkirt: Even when the Boss wears tiny miniskirts, it's very difficult to get a pantyshot.
* TheMeanBrit: Male voice 1 in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' (courtesy of Charles Shaughnessy) and male voice 3 in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' (courtesy of RobinAtkinDownes).
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: The "Russian" voice in Saints Row The Third skews to this. "Is exciting, yes? Like attacking a tiger with a knife!"
* MrFanservice / MsFanservice
* MusclesAreMeaningless: The flip side of the {{Acrofatic}} option; you can be skinny as a rail and still throw people around like rag dolls and kill Brutes like it's nobody's business.
* NolanNorth: The gimmick voice available in the fourth game, at the fourth wall's expense.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Johnny Gat, if you play a girl. They're ''very'' close friends, but there's nothing sexual going on, and Johnny is hooked up with Aisha [[spoiler: until "Bleeding Out" anyway]]. Can be averted in Saints Row 4 however.
* PoirotSpeak: Russian Boss in ''The Third'' and French Boss in ''IV''.
* {{Retcon}}: It's been [[WordOfGod stated by the creators]] that, if you choose a female character in Saints Row 2, it is to be assumed that she was always female.
* SassyBlackWoman
* ScaryBlackMan
* SensualSlavs: In ''The Third'', it is possible to be one of these.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Russian Boss in ''The Third'' is rather shameless with confessing her obsession towards Pierce, of all people. Pierce is understandably creeped out while Shaundi gets a lot of snark value from all of this.
* SpicyLatina: Think of the hottest food you've ever eaten. She's even spicier than that, like the other voices the female Spanish voice in the second and third games make Boss this trope UpToEleven.
* StatuesqueStunner: The height is the only thing about the protagonist that cannot be changed. Thus female Boss' height is set at as least a foot taller than Shaundi, placing her at somewhere in the 6'2 - 6'5 range.
** Strangely, Shaundi in The Third is now almost Boss' height, possible thanks to her high heels. However a female boss will still tower a head height over most [=NPCs=].
* {{Stripperific}}: Entirely possible, but you could also go for broke [[FullFrontalAssault and get covered only by pixellation]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In the first game's epilogue, the boss mentions that he wanted to go to Freckle Bitch's, and in the fourth expresses surprise that Freckle Bitch's never opened in Steelport.
* VillainousCrossdresser: Can be achieved by playing as a male Boss while wearing female clothes, makeup, and jewelry. Do not, under any circumstances, confuse him for a SissyVillain though...
* VirtualPaperDoll: Thanks to the many options in clothing and body builds, you can make your own Boss rather easily. And making it resemble to another character is far from impossible. Pick up long purple hair, a tanktop, some shorts and pretend you're in [[Manga/BlackLagoon Roanapur]].
** 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 and the height.
** With the Boss being the President in ''IV'', it is very possible to make him look like [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Funny Valentine]].
** Want some extra meta-Fun with NolanNorth [[AdamWesting as Nolan North?]] [[http://www.saintsrow.com/community/characters/tag/deadpool Dress your character up as]] ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} (who Nolan voiced over for his animated and video game appearances).
* VocalDissonance: You can mix and match bodies and voices for the Boss. You can have a male body with a female voice, or the other way around. And then there's the zombie voice from ''The Third''...
* WhenIWasYourAge: Parodied; one of the lines demonstrating the "Male 1" voice in the third game complains about kids playing video games, saying that when he was young, he would've been playing outside... killing people in real life.
* WhiteGangBangers: Or black, or Latino, or Asian, or any other nationality or even [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation color of the rainbow]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Ultor Corporation]]

! [[color:orange:Ultor Corporation]] - '''Active'''

!! Dane Vogel
->'''Played By:''' Jay Mohr

* BigBad: Turns out to be the main antagonist of the second game.
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* TheChessmaster
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: He considers "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears to be his "theme music," even though the song was written to mock people like him.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as other characters, but he has his moments.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: After the Boss killed him, Dane realized that he made a mistake trying to oppose them. Dane decided that he would serve the Boss once they died and went to hell, as it would be more profitable than opposing them.
* DirtyCoward
* EvilPlan:Strike a deal with the winning gang, get credit for cleaning up Stilwater. [[spoiler: The Boss nuked that dream nicely.]]
* InkSuitActor
* KilledMidSentence
* KilledOffForReal
* KillThePoor: His ultimate plan.
* KlingonPromotion: In the penultimate mission, [[spoiler:gets himself named chairman of Ultor by arranging for the Boss to wipe out the board of directors]].
* LetsYouAndHimFight: To all the gangs in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''
* ManipulativeBastard
* NonActionBigBad: He tends to let Ultor goons and the gangs do his dirty work for him. The few times he gets caught without any form of protection he is quick to try and talk his way out of the situation. [[spoiler:This ultimately fails to work on the Boss and gets him shot out a window from the top story of a skyscraper for his trouble.]]
* SmugSnake: Extremely so.
* UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:He marries Kiki [=DeWynter=] in the epilogue to ''Gat Out of Hell]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!! Tera Patrick
->'''Played By:''' [[AsHimself Tera Patrick]]

* ActionGirl
* AdamWesting
* CastingGag: Tera apparently has issues with nudity.
* CoolCar: She drives a special Saints Temptress.
* HollywoodNerd
* HotScientist
* InkSuitActor
* NerdsAreSexy
* {{Revenge}}: Against Ultor
* SpecialGuest
* TheDanza
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Helps the Saints after she discovers that Ultor is experimenting on humans]].
* ZettaiRyouiki

!! Eric Gryphon

* CallBack: He appears on the radio in the third game and talks about events that happened during the second game, including [[spoiler:Dane Vogel's death at the hands of the Boss.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive
* EnemyMine: Him and the protagonist against [[spoiler: Dex]].
* EveryoneHatesMimes: During his last mission with the Boss he calls out assassination targets for the Boss to snipe. He is supposed to be spotting people specifically linked to [[spoiler:Dex]] but asks the player to kill a nearby mime just because he doesn't like them.
* NonActionGuy: He has to go to the Saints for protection when [[spoiler:Dex]] starts sending Ultor goons after him.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: Takes Vogel's job after he is killed by the boss.]]

!! [[spoiler: Dexter Jackson]]

See Third Street Saints

[[/folder]]

[[folder: STAG]]

The '''Special Tactical Anti-Gang Unit''' is a government agency created sometime after ''Saints Row II'', [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome partially in response to the death of Jessica Parish]]. Its purpose is to hunt down and destroy gangs which pose a threat to the public good.

* ArmiesAreEvil: STAG is arguably ''worse'' than the Saints.
* BullyingADragon: STAG clearly has no idea what they're up against.
** Which is hilarious since they have access to comic-book technology and weapons.
* {{Expy}}: STAG is a barely concealed parody of SHIELD with elements of GI Joe thrown in for good measure.
* FunWithAcronyms
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Cyrus Temple's decision to level the city of Steelport with the Daedalus to get at the Saints.]]
** Of course, the Saints ''did'' [[spoiler: blow up an aircraft carrier.]] And he also fully believed that the [[spoiler:false-flag operation Kia set up was the Saints' doing, and it had resulted in A) the destruction of Steelport's statue and B) the death of Mayor Reynolds.]]
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Given the sheer number of dead bodies the Saints have left in their wake, one of which was the (Black) ''Mayor of Stilwater,'' the fact that only ''[[RichBitch Jessica]] [[AssholeVictim Parish]]'' is used an example of their brutality is simply staggering.

!! Commander Cyrus Temple
->'''Played By:''' Tim Thomerson, Creator/RichardEpcar (''SRIV'' prologue only)

The commander of STAG brought in to deal with the gang war in Steelport.

* AwesomeMcCoolname
* BadassBoast: See BadassGrandpa below.
* BadassGrandpa: In his own words during his boss fight:
-->"I've been a soldier longer then you've been alive!"
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:Forms one with Killbane, even though their groups are trying to kill each other, too.]]
* CassandraTruth: When fighting him he simply cannot believe the Boss' (true) claim that [[spoiler: Kia was behind the terrorist attack.]]
** [[spoiler: His audio logs in IV reveal they were lovers (as did her dialogue in III, when the Boss was disguised as Cyrus), which may explain why. It helped that Kia was far more emotionally invested in the operation than even Cyrus knew.]]
*** THAT might explain his [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn]] and [[spoiler: JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope]] both in [[spoiler: the non-canon ending and ''Saints Row 4'']]
* ColonelKilgore: He believes "shock and awe" will win the war against gangs.
-->'''Kia:''' Nyte Blayde's the face of STAG? Why don't you just put someone in a fucking deer suit?
-->'''Monica:''' Hearts and minds will win the war, my dear.
-->'''Cyrus:''' Shock and awe wins wars, Senator. Authorize [[ForbiddenChekhovsGun the Daedalus]] and this will all be over.
* EnemyMine: In one mission, he offers to turn a blind eye to the Saints if they give Josh Birk back (in a manner which allows the player to automatically "take over" a selected area on the map). [[spoiler: In Saints Row IV, he apparently became so disillusioned with America treating the Saints as heroes that he joined an Al Qaeda-expy terrorist group to destroy Washington D.C.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:By the time of ''IV'', he's become a wanted Western Terrorist.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Becomes a maniacal terrorist in the fourth game, apparently broken by the USA's embrace of the Saints.]]
* GeneralFailure: While he himself is perfectly competent, Cyrus' losses are ''ridiculous'' given his mission is to stop a few street gangs. It'd be safer to be posted as a mine-sweeper than work in STAG.
* HeroAntagonist: He is aiming to defeat a street gang with a reputation for murder, drug dealing, and all sorts of other illegal activities, after all. [[spoiler: Although the fact he was willing to use the Daedalus to raze Steelport in the "bad ending" of Saints Row III, and wanted to full-on [[NukeEm nuke Washington, D.C.]] at the start of Saints Row IV, [[MoralEventHorizon quickly took the "Hero" part away in a heartbeat]].]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Plans to nuke Washington, DC in ''IV'', which would cause destruction and mayhem on a scale that could easily outdo anything the Boss did.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:His justification to Boss for using the Daedalus, in an attempt that would have destroyed all of Steelport. Likewise for nuking Washington D.C.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: His actions against the gangs are bad but justifiable... up to a point. He hits the slope around the time the Daedalus starts razing Steelport, and does a goddamn swan-dive off it in ''IV''.
* [KilledOffForReal: If the player decides to complete the third game with the "bad" ending. [[spoiler:Even though the "bad ending" has since been confirmed to be non-canon, he ''still'' gets KilledOffForReal in the first mission of Saints Row IV. By getting [[BoomHeadshot shot in the face]]. And then [[NoKillLikeOverkill falling into a pit of lava]].]]
* OffhandBackhand: At the end of a late game mission he calmly and effortlessly headshots a zombie while talking on the phone with Monica Hughes.
* StrawMisogynist: The man himself isn't, being EqualOpportunityEvil, but in ''IV'', [[spoiler:the version of him born from Kinzie's subconcious is this]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Goes from having STAG as a presence to enforcing martial law. [[spoiler: If Kia is allowed to go terrorist, he tries to blow up Steelport. He goes even further in Saints Row IV, having become a terrorist who wants to blow up Washington DC for letting the Saints be heroes.]]
* {{Western Terrorist|s}}: [[spoiler:In ''IV''.]]

!! Kia
->'''Played By:''' Anastacia [=McPherson=]

Cyrus' second in command. She takes on most of the missions for STAG.

* ActionGirl: [[spoiler: Is capeable of fending off the Boss and kidnaps Shaundi twice.]]
* CallBack: [[spoiler: You save Shaundi from her much the same way as you killed Veteran Child.]]
* BreakingLecture: [[spoiler:Gives one to the Boss right before the final battle in the good ending, pointing out all of the friends who have died due to his/her failures.]]
* TheDragon
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Near the end she stages a terrorist attack to blame the Saints.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Kidnapping Shaundi, Viola and Mayor Reynolds so their bodies would be found in a bombing she pins on the Saints, which leads to STAG destroying Steelport and killing everyone in it.]]
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:In one ending of the third game.]]
** AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler:On normal a fully upgraded Ultimax shotgun at close range is a OnehitKill.]]
* [[HeroAntagonist Not So Heroic Antagonist]]: We can accept Cyrus trying to eliminate the gangs, and some of her actions are under his orders, instructions or with his authority. [[spoiler: Staging a terrorist attack to legitimize levelling Steelport however is more or less a MoralEventHorizon.]]
* KilledOffForReal: In both endings. If the player chooses the "good" ([[NoCanonForTheWicked canon]]) ending she [[spoiler:gets killed in a fight with the Boss]]. If they choose the bad ending instead she [[spoiler:gets blown up along with everyone else at the statue]].
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: When Boss meets her disguised as Cyrus she mentions a love for Aisha and how she joined STAG to go after those responsible for her death, leading The Boss to note their reasons for joining were NotSoDifferent]]
** [[spoiler: Using another voice for Boss she will reveal she and Cyrus were together, and suggests rekindling the relationship. Boss of course let's slip that Cyrus likes men, probably to mess with her.]]
** [[spoiler: Yet another voice will have Boss needle Kia about her feelings about Pierce, seeing as Boss is obsessed over him. Kia gets rather flustered over Temple's\Boss' insistent questioning over her feelings for Pierce.]]
* PunnyName: KIA, as in Killed in Action.
* TheSociopath: Doesn't even flinch at turning an island to a smoking crater. An island filled with hundreds of innocent people, at that. All so the Saints would be villified.
* TakingYouWithMe: A valid interpretation of her plan.
* WarIsGlorious: [[spoiler:Mentions this to Cyrus after martial law is imposed.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:Fart bombs, used the same way as stun grenades.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Setting up a terrorist attack to blame the Saints and give STAG reason to destroy Steelport, and perfectly willing to have the mayor killed in the bombing. Though she dies with them if the bombs goes off.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Blames Boss for the deaths of [[spoiler:Aisha, Carlos, Gat and Lin]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Zin]]

An evil race of aliens set to invade and take over the Earth in Saints Row IV. Not much is known about them aside from the fact that they apparently have access to advanced virtual reality technology which they use to trap the Saints.

* AlienInvasion: Um, duh. Quite the change from hordes of GangBangers, no?
* BizarreAlienBiology: In his autobiography, Zinyak mentions in passing that Zin learn to read in the womb and that infant Zin are covered in hair.
* TheGreys: They bear a distinct resemblance to the archetype, although a bit more [[SpikesOfVillainy spikey]].
* PlanetOfSteves: All named Zin individuals have names that start with "Zin-". Same for all their cities and states.
* ProudWarriorRace: They have universal military service, an expanionist foreign policy, and a tradition of forcing children to fight their siblings in duels to the death.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Used inside the simulation and out. If an object is red or black about 90% of the time it'll belong to the zin.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Their whole race has these naturally, being aliens and all.

!! Emperor Zinyak
[[quoteright:224:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2013-10-21_at_3_37_28_pm_7416.png]]

-->'''Played by Creator/JBBlanc'''

The leader of the Zin empire and commander of its vast army. He has now set his sights upon the Earth and intends to add it to his ranks.

* AffablyEvil: Just check out his [[https://twitter.com/EmperorZinyak Twitter account.]]
* AliensOfLondon: Former president of the Zin Empire's English Language Appreciation Society.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Invades earth, kidnaps humanity, and [[MemeticMutation fucks up Biz Markie]].
* AscendedExtra: According to the Enter the Dominatrix DLC, he originally was just going to be a minor character, but his role got expanded when they scrapped the DLC and decided to do Saints Row IV.
* BadBoss: He stuffed Zinjai into the simulation that ''he built'' rather than testing it on one of his own enemies, and can sometimes be heard threatening his own men.
* BigBad: Of ''Saints Row IV''.
* BiggerBad: Of ''Saints Row The Third''.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: [[spoiler:He abducts historically significant Earthlings and preserves them as {{Human Popsicle}}s.]]
* ChewingTheScenery: Zinyak admits to doing this during his interview in ''Enter the Dominatrix''.
* DeadpanSnarker: Zinyak enjoys employing sarcastic humour.
* DirtyCoward: He spends the latter part of his boss fight behind a forcefield while he sends Zin and explosive C.I.D.s after you.
* {{Egopolis}}: Every single sign that had somebody's face on it in the third game, is replaced with an image of Zinyak. Even the almighty Magarac statue is remade in Zinyak's image.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The collectibles that reveal his origin shows that he was very fond of his mother. She's the reason why he likes art.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: During one of his text adventures, should anyone click the kill your parents option, he finds whoever selected that option barbaric.
** Also, when clicking the option to "Play selections from the Zin Orchestra at high volume", he admits that no one, not even his enemies, deserves to hear songs from them (since Zinyak mentions that they're famous for making horrible songs).
* EvilIsPetty: The loyalty missions show off just how big of an asshole Zinyak can be, [[spoiler:from ruining Matt's carefully constructed [=NyteBlade=] fan fiction/simulation to missinging Biz Markie so wretchedly that even Pierce is astounded.]]
** In his text-adventure-style autobiography, he details how he conquered one civilization and accepted a bet from their leader to spare him and his people on the outcome of an arm wrestling match. When Zinyak loses (due to not taking into account the leader's cephalopodic anatomy and the species differing idea of tables) he still casually shoots him in the eye and orders the slaughter of the rest. He keeps that leader's tongue as a good luck charm.
* FinalBoss: The toughest one the series has had to date.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The collectible text adventures which tells his origins reveals that he started out working at a Pastry Shop. He also reveals he wanted to be a museum curator at one point.
* GalacticConqueror
* GeniusBruiser: He's easily twice as tall as any human, yet he loves Earth literature.
* HannibalLecture: Attempts to convince the Boss in one mission that regardless of the fact that he, [[spoiler:conquered and destroyed Earth]] it's still Boss' fault. After all, he did warn him what would happen. He goes on to claim that Earth was already a CrapsackWorld with the Boss running it, and all he ever caused was pain and misery.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The Boss does threaten to rip his head off when they first meet. Guess what happens in the final battle?]]
* HopelessBossFight: A QTE one at the beginning. The Boss actually doesn't do too badly against him at first and if it wasn't for Zinyak's powers, would've killed him on their first meeting.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He really wants to drive the point home that The President is a sociopath...despite, y'know, the fact that ''he's'' a tyrannical dictator with billions of lives taken, with the icing on the cake being his reaction to [[spoiler: blowing up earth]]: "'''Whoops.'''"
** Even more pronounced in his text-adventure-style autobiography, in which he extols on how his own sociopathic tendencies are to be lauded. Granted, he has nothing but a high opinion of himself.
** While Zinyak tries to paint himself as a good guy (at least in comparison to the Boss), the biggest and perhaps most defining difference between them is this: Loyalty to the crew. During one mission, the Boss admits that he would gladly take a bullet for any member of his crew. Zinyak, however, treats his underlings, including his closest and most loyal underling, as though they were disposable.
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Fascinated by Earth literature, theater and classical music. Particularly enamored of Shakespeare and Creator/JaneAusten, claiming that her works in particular inspired his rise to power. [[spoiler: It turns out that he actually abducted Austen and kept her as a HumanPopsicle. She's the game's narrator.]]
* KlingonPromotion: How he got the job of Emperor. [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, the Boss inherits his throne after killing him in personal combat.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: [[AffablyEvil Affability]] aside, Zinyak is still one of the most threatening opponents that the Boss has ever faced, even going so far as to [[spoiler:destroy the Earth itself]].
* LargeAndInCharge: Zinyak stands at least twice as tall as his minions, who are all human-sized.
* LargeHam
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a booming, industrial-esque theme that plays when he's shown on-screen. It's also remixed for [[FinalBoss the final fight]] against him.
* MindOverMatter: Makes his entrance into invading Earth by showcasing NotQuiteFlight and he tosses the Boss around like a ragdoll during their first confrontation in the second mission.
* NeckLift: He does this quite a bit. It helps when you're double everyone's height.
* NeckSnap: He admits to killing a schoolyard bully in his youth this way.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Joins Pierce and the Boss in singing Biz Markie's ''Just A Friend'' at one point, much to their horror.
* {{Pride}}: Man, does this guy have such an excess of it. Unlike [[SystemShock SHODAN]], [[spoiler: he still keeps acting egotistical even after you defeat him.]]
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: [[spoiler:He invented a form of TimeTravel...and uses it to fill his collection of historically significant humans.]]
* SelfMadeMan
* ShadowArchetype: To the Boss. Both are self-made individuals who rose from nothing to fame and power through determination, guile, and the application of extreme violence. [[spoiler:Keith David]] lampshades the similarities between them in a speech in the mission "He Lives," also adding that they both are fans of Creator/JaneAusten.
* SmugSnake: Nearly every word out of his mouth consists of him saying how he's better than you. Even as the Boss is kicking his ass, he doesn't stop with how your defeat is inevitable. [[spoiler: Taken to ridiculous levels when he still doesn't stop even as the Boss is ripping off his head]]. His text-adventure-style autobiography half consists of how brilliant and peerless a commander he is.
* TheSociopath: The collectibles reveal that he was considered as such by several Zin during his early military career.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: He has some sort of teleportation device on his wrist, which he uses to abduct Shaundi in "The Saints Wing" and in both of his fights with the Boss.
* {{Troll}}: Olympic level skill at this. From wanting the Saints to suffer via being forced to live their worst nightmares to hijacking a radio station to mess with Boss and Pierce, everything Zinyak does is essentially to cause misery to people. Only [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Terumi Yuuki]] can match him in terms of dickassery.
* UnreliableNarrator: While his description of his homeworld paints the Zin as boorish and crude, remember that this is from an autobiography written by a sociopathic intellectual with a big ego.
* VillainBall: The idiocy of Zinyak leaving the data clusters lying around simulated Steelport is lampshaded in the mission that introduces them. He compounds his error by failing to get rid of the remainder once it becomes clear that the Boss and the Saints are using them to undermine his control of the Simulation.
* ViralMarketing: He has a Twitter account.
* WarriorPoet: He clearly considers himself one.
* WickedCultured: Seems like it, at least. He's a big fan of ''DowntonAbbey'', and he [=DJs=] the classical music radio station in the virtual Steelport.
** He also does live readings of Shakespeare and ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''[[spoiler:, with Jane reading opposite him]].

!!Zinjai

Zinyak's Manservant. [[spoiler:He later becomes the Boss's manservant.]]

* AntiVillain: Type IV.
* ExtremeDoormat: According to Zinyak's text adventure game he used to be a great soldier and scientist. [[MindRape Being the first test subject to be put into the simulation changed that.]]
* TheQuisling: [[spoiler:Whether because he's ''that'' broken from the Simulation, or because he really had good reason to hate Zinyak.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: He was the one who built the entire simulation under Zinyak's orders. Guess who also got to be the first to test it out?
* 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.]]
* TheSmartGuy: He's the one that invented Zinyak's simulation. How does Zinyak thank him? [[UngratefulBastard By making him be the first victim of the simulation.]]
* YesMan

!! The Dominatrix

The simulation AI gained sentience and the personality of a ruthless dominatrix. She was originally set to be the villain of a ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' DLC that was scrapped and now appears as the BigBad of... a SaintsRow IV DLC.

* BigBad: Of the "Enter The Dominatrix" DLC.
* BondageIsBad: She takes the form of a dominatrix and attempts 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.
* DarkActionGirl: She has super powers of her own and an army of minions.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain
* HellBentForLeather: Well, she is a dominatrix after all.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: It shouldn't be surprising that the outfit she wears is like this.

!! Santa Clawz

A psychopathic VR Santa Claus created to torment the real deal in his simulation by corrupting the meaning of Christmas and the BigBad of "How The Saints Saved Christmas".

* BadSanta: Of course.
* BadassBoast: Said in rhyme when he first appears:
-->"Those who are naughty, look to the sky
-->and see your doom with the naked eye.
-->You willingly break the worlds laws,
-->now feel the wrath of Santa Claws!"
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Becomes a large monster right before the last mission.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice [[spoiler:On a giant Christmas tree to finish him off.]]
* RhymesOnADime: In the style of a Creator/DrSeuss book, like HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Because his powers come from destroying and mangling the holiday spirit he can be harmed by Christmas (or any other holiday) cheer. [[spoiler:The Boss actually defeats him by giving him presents and dropping him on a Christmas tree.]]


[[/folder]]

[[folder:Legions Of Hell]]

!!Satan
->'''Played By:''' Creator/TravisWillingham

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.
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* AbusiveParents: Reminds Jezebel of how she "belongs to him" and when she's defiant, he doesn't hesitate to slap her. He eventually threatens to kill her.
* BadBoss: Satan seems overjoyed about all the destruction and murder of all of Satan's property and men that Gat does during the course of the game, claiming it shows his cunning and ruthlessness.
* BigBad: Of ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell''.
* BigRedDevil: The form he takes during the expansion.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When Jezebel interrupts him while he's speaking with Gat, Satan tells her not to speak while the men are talking.
* {{Satan}}: The one and only.
* SoreLoser: [[spoiler:After Johnny or Kinzie punches him in the face, Satan banishes Johnny, Kinzie, the Boss, and Jezebel from Hell so he can escape from the humiliation of getting his ass kicked by two mortals.]]
* VillainSong: Sings one to Jezebel of how she has no choice to marry the Boss, and how she belongs to him.
* WorthyOpponent: Upon seeing Johnny Gat firsthand and his self-sacrificing nature, he deems him to be this, [[spoiler:and demands ''he'' marry Jezebel instead]].

!!Jezebel Mephistopheles

Satan's daughter whom he has arranged to marry the Boss.
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* BiTheWay: Satan wants to marry her to the boss, even if the boss is female. No word on whether or not she actually objects to the idea of being with a woman or a man, just that she doesn't want to live by her father's rule.
* CuteMonsterGirl: For the daughter of Satan she's pretty damn hot.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Averted. She wants to be free from her father, and find her own love. Satan doesn't take kindly to it.
* IWantSong: Sings of how she desires to be free from her fathers grip and wishes to find her own love.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: SubvertedTrope. If you heard her name, it does certainly sound like the daughter of the Devil, but she's one of the nicest people in the cast.
* NiceGirl: Shows absolutely no malevolence to anyone but her father, who frankly [[AbusiveParents deserves it]].

!![[spoiler:Dane Vogel]]
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See Ultor Corporation.

!![[spoiler:Viola and Kiki Dewynter]]

See Morning Star.

!!{{Blackbeard}}
->'''Played By:''' Creator/MatthewMercer

The king of pirates himself. Blackbeard has set up a recreation of his ship out in the wasteland of hell where most of the demons will leave him alone.
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* BadassBeard
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After being defeated, he joins Johnny's quest.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A famous real-life pirate.
* {{Pirate}}: A famous real-life one.

!!Creator/WilliamShakespeare

The legendary Shakespeare was once one of Satan's top minions until he was found teaching his daughter some of his works and was thrown out. Now he runs hell's entertainment district.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Bill sold his soul to Satan so his plays could get the fame that they deserved.
* EskimosArentReal: The Launch Trailer for "Gat out of Hell" claimed that William Shakespeare was a fictional character from all those movies about poems and love.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: ''The'' William Shakespeare.
* ThirdPersonPerson: In addition to always speaking as if he's giving stage directions, Bill always refers to himself in the third person. An audio log reveals that he does this to make him seem more mysterious.
* PointyEars: He has them in Hell.

!!UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler

One of history's most ruthless men who Gat finds trapped in a CoolAndUnusualPunishment in one of hell's prisons. After being rescued he joins Gat as an ally.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: In the Shawarma cutscene, Vlad has made Killbane his torture monkey. Also, he ''is'' Vlad the Impaler after all.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: We see Vlad being tortured in the bowels of Hell. What is the torture? Being forced to listen to 'The Wheels on the Bus' over and over again.
* DisproportionateRetribution: What does Vlad wish to do to all the people who broke into his castle and used it as their own personal clubhouse? Systematically impale them, of course!
* HeroicBSOD: After listening to 'The Wheels on the Bus' for an eternity, Vlad falls apart from the trauma.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The historical basis of Dracula himself.

[[/folder]]

** He also does live readings of Shakespeare and ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', with Jane reading opposite him.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: In the Shawarma cutscene, Vlad has made Killbane his torture monkey. Also, he ''is'' Vlad the Impaler after all.

* 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 they do make one strange President there's no question Boss is a lot better than before.

** "Sociopath" also seems to be a bit of insistent terminology. Despite some of their more questionable actions, by SaintsRowIV the Boss cares too much about the other Saints to be deemed as much.

The simulation AI gained sentience and the personality of a ruthless dominatrix. She was originally set to be the villain of a SaintsRowTheThird DLC that was scrapped and now appears as the BigBad of... a SaintsRow IV DLC.

* {{Troll}}: [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Angelus.]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. That dude on the Internet who ignores what someone has done and blames everybody else. This dude outshines them all. From wanting the Saints to suffer via being forced to live their worst nightmares to hijacking a radio station to mess with Boss and Pierce, everything Zinyak does is essentially to cause misery to people. Only [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Terumi Yuuki]] can match him in terms of dickassery.

* [[spoiler:BigBadEnsemble: Forms one with Killbane, even though their groups are trying to kill each other, too.]]

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: By the time of ''IV'', he's become a wanted Western Terrorist.]]
* [[spoiler:FallenHero: Becomes a maniacal terrorist in the fourth game, apparently broken by the USA's embrace of the Saints.]]

* [[spoiler: HeWhoFightsMonsters: Plans to nuke Washington, DC in ''IV'', which would cause destruction and mayhem on a scale that could easily outdo anything the Boss did.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: If the player decides to complete the game with the "bad" ending.
** [[spoiler: Even though the "bad ending" has since been confirmed to be non-cannon, he ''still'' gets KilledOffForReal in the first mission of Saints Row IV. By getting [[BoomHeadshot shot in the face]]. And then [[NoKillLikeOverkill falling into a pit of lava]].]]

* [[spoiler:{{Western Terrorist|s}}: In ''IV''.]]

* [[spoiler: FinalBoss: In one ending.]]
** [[spoiler: AnticlimaxBoss: On normal a fully upgraded Ultimax shotgun at close range is a OnehitKill]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]: In both endings. If the player chooses the "good" ending she [[spoiler:gets killed in a fight with the Boss.]] If they choose the bad ending instead she [[spoiler:gets blown up along with everyone else at the statue.]]

* [[spoiler: WarIsGlorious: Mentions this to Cyrus after martial law is imposed.]]
* [[spoiler: WeaksauceWeakness: Fart bombs. Yes, fart bombs, used the same way as stun grenades.]]
* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: Setting up a terrorist attack to blame the Saints and give STAG reason to destroy Steelport, and perfectly willing to have the mayor killed in the bombing. Though she dies with them if the bombs goes off.]]
* [[spoiler: WhatTheHellHero: Blames Boss for the deaths of Aisha, Carlos, Gat and Lin.]]

* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: The Boss does threaten to rip his head off when they first meet. Guess what happens in the final battle?]]

Zinyak's Manservant.[[spoiler: He later becomes the Boss's manservant.]]

* [[spoiler: TheQuisling: Whether because he's ''that'' broken from the Simulation, or because he really had good reason to hate Zinyak.]]

* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel]]: [[spoiler:Becomes a large monster right before the last mission.]]

* [[spoiler:[[EtTuBrute Et Tu, Julius?]]: In the second game, it was revealed that Julius tried to kill the Boss by destroying the Yacht seen in the finale.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence]]
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]
* [[spoiler: KillThePoor]]: His ultimate plan.

* [[spoiler: UnholyMatrimony]]: [[spoiler:He marries Kiki [=DeWynter=] in the epilogue to ''Gat Out of Hell]].

** [[spoiler:BadassInDistress: As seen in first teaser of VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell, he/she is kidnapped by Satan.]]

* BiTheWay: Satan wants to marry her to the boss, even if the boss is female.

* {{Acrofatic}}: You can make your Boss fat (ranging from "chubby" fat to "gives TheNotoriousBIG a run for his money" fat), and they'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.

** You honor the dead. Doesn't matter who you are, you honor the dead. Interrupting a funeral with have Boss help the mourner literally bury those who do so alive, unleash TheDragon to go on a AxCrazy RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and if you so choose go terrorist.

* NeckLift: He does this quite a bit.

!!Blackbeard

!!William Shakespeare

!!Vlad The Impaler

* AbusiveParents: Reminds Jezebel of how she "belongs to him" and when she's defiant, he doesn't hesitate to slap her. He also tells her that he doesn't care for her.

* VillainSong: Sings one to Jezebel of how she has no choice to marry the boss, and how she belongs to him.