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Rival gangs who served as antagonists to the Third Street Saints in Saints Row
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The Vice Kings
A group of gangbangers-turned-record-executives led by Benjamin King, a businessman and old friend of Julius. True to their name, they specialize in vice crimes such as gambling and prostitution while maintaining a legitimate business of a hip-hop record company as a front. They were originally founded in the 1970s to combat the Carnales and share a lot in common with the Saints...
In General
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: They run Kingdom Come records legally, but extort as much money from their employees as they can.
- Dirty Cop: They have the Stilwater PD on their payroll. To strip them off police protection, Dex has Johnny and the player dress up in their colours and cause mayhem throughout Stilwater.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- King: Melancholic
- Warren: Choleric
- Green: Sanguine
- Tanya: Phlegmatic
- Gangbangers: The Vice Kings are the straightest example of this type of criminal from the series.
- A House Divided: They make things easy for the Saints due to the infighting. King wants to move past the gangbangers phase and go on to more sophisticated white-collar crimes, while Warren and Tanya want to rule aggressively. Comes to a head in the climax of the Vice Kings storyline; with King forced off his throne and Warren dead, many don't sit well with Tanya's takeover of the gang and start infighting heavily. When Tanya is killed, King drops his flags and quits the game.
- Mirroring Factions: They are almost a perfect mirror of the Saints - Both gangs were formed to combat gang influence in Stilwater, only for the gang to end up filling in the power void left over. The only difference is that the Vice Kings were far less successful in the long run.
- Motive Decay: The Vice Kings were originally established to push Los Carnales out of King's hometown, Sunnyvale Gardens. While they proved successful in quenching the Carnales' power within Stilwater, King became accustomed to the power and used the gang's empire to make money. King's desire to move past gang-banging ends up resulting in his allies betraying him to seize control themselves.
- Visual Pun: They're Kings in yellow.
Benjamin King
Benjamin Motherfuckin’ King
"I did it by knowing when it was time to build, when it was time to watch, and when it was time to act."
Appearances: Saints Row | Saints Row IV | How the Saints Save Christmas
An old friend of Julius, founder of the Vice Kings, and the owner of Kingdom Come Records. After his crew turns on him, he goes legit and becomes a self-help book author, before becoming the Protagonist's Chief of Staff in IV.
- Affably Evil:
- For a ruthless gang leader bent on controlling the entire city, he comes off as a pretty friendly guy so long as you don't piss him off. At the end of his arc, he even steps down willingly and gives the main character the keys to his penthouse before leaving town.
- Judging from King's actions, he doesn't put a whole lot of effort in using his own gang to silence the Saints, but rather the Police. Most of King's actions seem to be those of a man who wants to put the game behind him. Or at least go into white collar crime.
- Badass Boast: To quote the whole thing would take awhile, but here is probably one of the most epic parts:"You forgot who you're talking to! My name is Benjamin motherfuckin’ King! I'm the man who took my crew from being a bunch of baby gangstas in Sunnyvale to being one of the most influential and feared forces in the goddamn city!"
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Kicks ass in snappy suits.
- Bald of Authority: Shaves his head by the time of Saints Row IV when he becomes the President's Chief of Staff.
- Batter Up!: When one of Warren's men comes at him with a bat, he wrestles the bat from them, and hits them with it.
- Benevolent Boss:
- Any other gang leader in the series would have had Warren killed or beat up at the first outburst, even Julius tried killing the Playa for being too trigger happy. King gives him a chance after many warnings to just skip town.
- In the Agents of Mayhem timeline, he evidently treated Pierce with far more respect than the Boss ever did, even choosing him to be his successor in the event of his death, while main-timeline Pierce is the Saints' eternal Butt-Monkey.
- Berserk Button: He gets really pissed off in Saints Row IV when Matt calls him a thug in their Homie conversation. King may have gone legit and mellowed out, but he damn sure wasn't a common thug.
- Also, when Warren Williams accuses him of cowardice back in the first game, he finally loses patience with Williams' insolence and slams his head into a table, twice.
- The Bus Came Back: Vanished after 1. Comes back as a presidential cabinet member in 4.
- Celebrity Paradox: In 2, Regicide is in the process of being made into a movie, starring Michael Clarke Duncan as King. In IV, where he's
voiced by Terry Crews instead, characters criticize the movie because Duncan didn't sound very much like him. - Celibate Hero: The Boss doesn't romance King in IV, since they just want a signed copy of his book instead. Also, he's the only Vice King who Tanya couldn't seduce back in the first game, though he wasn't technically a hero back then.
- Cold Ham: King is a Scary Black Man with serious presence and a deep voice, but he rarely ever raises it in order to assert himself. He's just that commanding. The "ham" part is played up more in IV, since Terry Crews is a lot less soft-spoken than Michael Clarke Duncan, but then he does have the excuse of putting up with the frustrating President/Boss.
- Compromising Memoirs: Regicide, a book written about the fall of the Vice Kings. King's Audio Log in IV reasoned that with all the experience he had in the game, he wanted to reveal to the world all that he gained... and lost from it.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: In the first game.
- Criminal Craves Legitimacy: King wants to leave behind his gang roots and focus entirely on being a businessman, which neither Warren or Tanya agree with. It eventually results in both of them attempting to kill him. When the Vice Kings are destroyed, King retires and writes a memoir on the gang.
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: He initially got into organized crime in order to counter the Carnales' encroachment on Sunnyvale. Over time, however, he grew accustomed to his lifestyle and the power it brought, leading him to focus on maintaining his position as a crime lord.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: He's dead in the Agents of Mayhem timeline, leaving Pierce Washington to succeed him as leader of the Vice Kings.
- Death Is the Only Option: In Saint's Row 1, he believes this or jail to be the only real ways out of the game. In Real Life, the truth...is not that far off of television. His rant about how there's someone going to be after you for what you have or to make a name or a lover's revenge are all indicators that despite how much power and wealth you can accumulate; there's gonna be someone after you for it. Subverted with King as he manages to be one of the few human alive and avoid jail time but he had to destroy his own crew, drop his flag and survive an assassination attempt.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After his crew turns against him, King allies with the Saints. When The Boss becomes President, King serves as their Chief of Staff.
- The Dreaded: An experienced gang leader with connections to the police and a personal friend of Julius'. There's a reason Troy backed his way out of dealing with his gang. Even lampshaded by Troy in the instructional manual, where he writes out that Monroe wouldn't want him getting involved in his business.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He wants no part of Stilwater's drug trade. It's also implied that Tanya's kidnapping of women for her brothel may have been done behind his back, possibly because of this trope. Which is weird when you realize the Vice Kings did in fact work in drugs in addition to sex and prostitution. However, it does make sense when Tanya and Warren rebel against him. Supplementary dialogue from Tanya in IV as well as the game proper help the player understand just how much control was subtly ripped away from King. It makes one wonder just how much control of his own gang King really had once he focused on white-collar crime.
- Evil Sounds Deep: More so when voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan, but Terry Crews isn't exactly high-pitched either.
- Faction Motto: Knowing when to build, when to watch, and when to act. It was this principle that allowed him to grow the Vice Kings. Sadly, his lieutenants don't see eye to eye with him on this issue.
- Genius Bruiser: Don't let his size fool you. King is on the ball and can kick serious ass. In the fourth game not only he is the one who came up with the plan to take down Zinyak but also is the reason why the Boss was able to win the election.
- Heel–Face Turn: After being deposed by Tanya.
- History Repeats: Depending on your interpretation of events; the Vice Kings lost for the same reason the Carnales regained power: Ben didn't administer enough force to the problem at hand and the operations got screwed up beyond repair.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: The Boss couldn't win the election without King as campaign manager.
- Large and in Charge: The only Vice King who seems to rival him in terms of height is Tony.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Benjamin King? Commanding of respect, but not necessarily fear. Benjamin Motherfuckin' King, on the other hand...
- Ben also seems to take major inspiration from Suge Knight, another man you might want to get the hell away from upon seeing him.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Seems to be at least partly based on Suge Knight, though he's nowhere near as Ax-Crazy as Knight.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: He gives no special treatment to Tanya, even voicing displeasure when she has problems handling business because of the Saints.
- Ominous Foreshadowing: His speech about how there's always going to be some motherfucker out to take what's yours mirrors What pathology the protagonist takes between Saints Row 1 and Saints Row 2.
- Pragmatic Villainy: As his page quote says, knowing when it was time to watch, when it was time to build, and when it was time to act is the whole reason he rose to power in the first place. Sadly, Warren is a lot less patient than him.
- Put on a Bus: He's unseen in 2 and The Third.
- The Bus Came Back: He's part of the Presidential Cabinet in 4.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Being calm, professional, and intelligent, he takes on the role of blue oni to Warren William's red oni.
- Retired Badass: At the end of the first game.
- Scary Black Man: Voiced by and partially modeled on Michael Clarke Duncan, this was inevitable.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: King is good at maintaining relations with the police and records industries.
- Shout-Out: When his Super Homie powers are unlocked in IV, his outfit changes to make him look like Morpheus from The Matrix. His appearance also changes, including his skin tone and beard.
- Taught by Experience: King has been in the game a long time. Were he as young or as hot blooded as Warren, he might have made the same mistakes. But King's experiences taught him exactly how to manipulate the police to his advantage, how to respond to loss revenue without extreme violence (at least personally), and how to deal with some lowlifes "who wanna act hard". If he'd acted like Warren would have, it would have accelerated the gangland violence and it would've alienated his allies in the police force, which would have ruined his business. Knowing when to build, when to watch, and when to act was how King has made it as far and became as successful as he did.
- Tranquil Fury: In the first game, however often Warren irritates him with his stupidity, Ben never raises his voice any louder. Then again, being voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan means he doesn't have to raise it.
- Villain with Good Publicity: The general public considers him a legitimate businessman and a philanthropist.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Initially. Ben fought against the first incarnation of Los Carnales because he tired of the violence in Sunnyvale Gardens, wanting peace back to the row. However; Ben got corrupted by the power he amassed and wouldn't let it go; choosing to focus on white-collar crime. In turn, the Carnales regained their strength and a new gang, the Westside Rollerz emerged, plummeting Stilwater into a massive gangland.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: His plan to deal with Saints is to rebuild what they destroyed and let the police arrest the Saints instead of escalating violence and losing his favors with the police and City Hall. When Johnny is in charge it works rather well since the only businesses he can hit are the ones Tanya is running behind King's back but when Dex comes up with the strategies he destroys King's ties with the police and indirectly helps the mutiny.
- Would Hit a Girl: After Tanya betrays him, he goes after her with Johnny and the player character, blows her out of a window with machine-gun fire, then steps on her fingers to make sure she lets go of the window and falls onto his car.
Warren Williams
Warren "EZ Money" Williams
"Man, if you got down with that shit back in the day, the Carnales woulda been ghosts right now. But ya didn't, did ya? You were too much of a pussy then, and you're to much of a pussy now."
Played By: Ogie Banks
- Alliterative Name: Warren Williams.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Not as badass as he thinks though. He is essentially what happens when a rapper really starts to believe the lines he spits.
- Bald of Evil: Not a hair on his empty little head.
- Beard of Evil: He has a goatee a lot more prominent than King's close-cut beard, and he's a lot less Affably Evil than his boss.
- Bright Is Not Good: Yellow is the colour of the Vice Kings, but he's the one who wears the most of it in his default outfit.
- Bullying a Dragon: Continuously lambasts and insults King's lax attitude towards the Saints' attacks, even after several stern warnings (and an eventual headlock) from him. Then he attempts to murder King, which backfires on him big time.
- Cool Car: Drives a golden Rattler convertible, the in-game equivalent of a Dodge Viper.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: An aspiring one, although he appears to resent this role, being more willing to get his hands dirty.
- Cowardice Callout: Towards the climax of the Vice Kings arc, he decides to call King out for refusing to take action against the Third Street Saints taking over their turf in favour of focusing on his legal businesses and letting their political and police allies take care of the Saints for them. Of course, Warren then finds out why insulting a Scary Black Man who's as physically powerful as he is intelligent over perceived cowardice is not a good idea:Warren: If you hadn't wasted our time sticking your nose up them white boys' asses, we could've owned the whole damn game by now!
King: I told you before- we ain't gettin' into that shit!
Warren: And why the fuck not?! That's where all the money is! If you had got with that shit back in the day, the Carnales would've been ghosts by now! But you didn't, did you? You were too much of a pussy then! And you're too much of a pussy now! (King grabs Warren's head and slams it into a table) FUCK! - Defiant to the End: He straight-up goads Tanya to shoot him when he realizes she's betraying him.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Despite it seeming like he would become the Arc Villain of the Vice Kings arc, he is betrayed by Tanya and killed after his attempted coup.
- The Dragon: For King.
- Fatal Flaw: Pride. Warren's impatience and desire for power results in him siding with Tanya and forcing King out of the gang by force. This bites him in the back when King uses his friendship with Julius to rescue him and kill Warren.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: During "For King And Country", he attempts to drive off after leaving King for dead.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Ends up getting murdered by Tanya, his accomplice in his attempt to take over the Vice Kings.
- Hot-Blooded: He's a lot faster to anger and resort to violence than King, which is why they don't get along.
- Horrible Judge of Character: He has complete faith in Tanya, his ally in his attempt to overthrow King, despite the fact she's turned on both King and Green and that she's cheating on him with the latter. It leads to Tanya shooting him dead when he's outlived his usefulness.
- Jerkass Has a Point: For all of Warren's bravado and arrogance; he's right about one thing. King was so accustomed to his area of power (or maybe constrained by rules of etiquette) that he couldn't finish off the Saints directly as opposed to letting his connections and lower crew members deal with them. In Warren's eyes, King's spending too much time watching and building, not enough acting.
- Just a Gangster: Warren has no use for King's attempts to go legit or to cultivate power through political influence. Warren is much more interested in the street and what comes with it, and it's a big part of why he becomes The Starscream.
- Klingon Promotion: How he ousts King out of the gang. It doesn't work, and instead he falls victim to this by Tanya.
- Motor Mouth: Warren's biggest flaw is that he never knows when to shut up. something that even King calls him out on. Naturally, when Tanya pulls a gun on him, he keeps mouthing off until she shoots him.Warren: *after Tanya points her gun at him* "Bitch, you better not miss cause-" *BANG*Tanya: "Thanks for the advice."
- Not Quite Dead: He survives King and the Playa shooting his car until it bursts into flames and is crawling out of it when Tanya pulls a gun on him.
- Pride Before a Fall: What brings him down. Warren has the music scene under control and does well bringing in profits for the Vice Kings, but he's so power hungry and overly confident in his abilities that he doesn't appreciate his role in King's overall system. Granted, his ego got bigger due to Tanya, but because he doesn't want to sit back and listen to other things or watch issues play out, he immediately reacts to the issue at hand. King admits as much in an audio log in IV; his lieutenants lacked the same patience that he did, and thus would've blown their cover and protection from the police quickly.King: "That was Warren's problem...that motherfucker never knew when to shut up and just listen."
- Psychopathic Manchild: He's violent, temperamental, and eager to prove himself in a manner which makes him come across as less mature than King. Case in point, when he's struggling to crawl out of his car right before Tanya shoots him, he's muttering bitterly over King calling him a "little nigga".
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Being cocky, aggressive, and eager to prove himself he plays the red Oni to Benjamin King's blue Oni.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the post-Cosmic Retcon plot of the first game that happens in Agents of Mayhem, as a result of Kingpin becoming leader of the Vice Kings. Tanya killing him does not happen, either.
- Speed Sex: Implied. In "Green With Envy", one of Tanya's stops is seeing him at Kingdom Come Records, saying that knowing him, she wouldn't be long.
- The Starscream: Thinks he got what it takes to take out King and take power. Like Starscream, he is just a joke. Especially because he's working with another, more competent Starscream.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Tanya shoots him dead when he's wounded to take full control of the Vice Kings.
Anthony Green
Anthony "Big Tony" Green
"You 3rd Street mothafuckas think you so smart. Well check this out, we ain't impressed. Hell, the only reason you got as far as you did was 'cause King let you."
Played By: Terrence C. Carson
Appearances: Saints Row | Saints Row IV
- Agony of the Feet: After he shoots Johnny in the knee, Johnny pulls out a knife and sticks it in his foot. They then engage in a brief grappling match which Tony wins offscreen.
- Bald of Evil: Just like Warren.
- Berserk Button: Implying an affair between Tanya and Warren. Gat gets his leg shot for continuously joking about it.
- The Brute: His primary trait.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: His bio states he's ex-military, evident by his strength. His concept art also has an Eagle, Globe and Anchor symbol on his left bicep.
- Combat Pragmatist: He hits Johnny and the Playa with a gun to the head from behind, then follows it up by shooting Johnny in the knee.
- Evil Gloating: When he briefly has Johnny and the player character captive.
- Evil Sounds Deep: As voiced by Terrence C. Carson. Ben King is the only man in the Vice Kings with a deeper voice than him.
- Hot-Blooded: Downplayed compared to Warren, as he is wise enough to not yell at King, but he can get really excited when it's time to deal with the Saints
- Knee Capping: He does this to Johnny Gat when he talks back to him one time too many.Anthony: "I thought I told you to stay down."Johnny: "I got shitty hearing."Anthony: *unloads a shotgun into his knee* "Now you got a shitty leg!"
- My Girl Is Not a Slut: He doesn't like Johnny questioning Tanya's fidelity.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is the spitting image of Ben King's actor, Michael Clarke Duncan. Ironically, since he's voiced by Terrence C. Carson.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He manages to overpower Johnny Gat in a grappling match offscreen, after Johnny sticks a knife into his foot.
- Scary Black Man: Oh yes!
- Tank Goodness: He drives a tank to confront King in the simulation in IV.
- Undying Loyalty: He's the only lieutenant that King openly respects. Julius even apologizes for his death to him, although he reassures him that it was just business. Averted by the version of him in the simulation in IV, who happily attacks King outside the Saints' church with a tank.
Tanya Winters
Tanya Winters
"Some guys just never get enough of me."
Warren's ex-prostitute girlfriend and ally. Tanya hides a ruthless and power-hungry nature behind her pretty face.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When she's about to fall to her death, she begs King not to step on her fingers. He's in no mood to humour her.
- Arc Villain: During the Vice Kings story arc. She took over this role after Warren's death.
- Bad Boss: None of the prostitutes under her control hold her with high regard since she mistreats them.
- Berserk Button: In IV, when the Boss warns King, "Just don't get any blood on you! She's got the hep!" Tanya snarls "No. I. Don't!"
- Boomerang Bigot: She's a former prostitute who's perfectly happy to kidnap other women and force them into becoming prostitutes. Pretty vicious.
- Butt-Monkey: In IV, almost every homie conversation bar Kinzie, Pierce or King is putting her down.
- Car Cushion: She meets her end this way by the hands of King.Johnny Gat: That sucks for [King's] car.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Turns on King. Turns on Warren. Anthony probably would have met the same fate eventually.
- Cutscene Boss: She's defeated in a gunfight and King pushes her to her doom in a cinematic.
- Dark Action Girl: For what it's worth, she isn't a bad shot when she has to step up.
- Deadpan Snarker: When interacting with Johnny and Warren. Especially right before she kills Warren.
- Defiant to the End: In IV, she openly insults King right to his face before he shoots her again. Rather ironically, since she's a Dirty Coward.
- Destination Defenestration: Courtesy of the Saints via assault rifles and King forcing her to let go of a ledge.
- Disney Villain Death: Falls out of a window to her death by King and the Saints.
- Dirty Coward: Whenever she's confronted by armed men, her first reaction is to try getting out of there. Even when she pulls a gun on Johnny, King, and the Playa, as soon as they blow her out of a window, she begs for them not to step on her fingers and ensure she ends up falling. Ironically, she accuses King of being the coward in IV when he sends the Boss to confront her, which is especially hypocritical, given that she spends most of the boss fight running off. King dryly comments that she never could "die with dignity".
- From Nobody to Nightmare: The manual for the first game mentions that she was only a small-time prostitute before joining the Vice Kings. Afterwards she began sleeping her way up the chain of command.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: In the first game and Ben King's loyalty mission in Saints Row IV.
- Hated by All: Once she usurps control of the Vice Kings, King states that many people don't sit well with the idea of her running the gang, with many infighting if not dropping their flags. Even her own prostitutes, whom she's stated to treat horribly, admit to Playa after her death that she had it coming.
- High-Heel Power: The game's camera actually pans in on her high feels when she shoots Warren, and she's unable to climb back up from her Rasputinian Death because of them.
- Hypocrite: In IV, she accuses King of cowardice for sending the Boss to fight her instead. As the Boss points out, she's the one who spent most of the fight running away.
- Klingon Promotion: Kills Warren shortly after the two take power.
- Made of Iron: In IV, she eats up surprisingly large levels of gunfire for a woman in skimpy clothes. Then again, she's not the real Tanya, just an AI simulation based on her.
- Manipulative Bastard: Tanya is an ace manipulator. She and Warren secretly plot to usurp King, before disposing of Warren and taking power for herself.
- Meaningful Name: "Winters" is her last name, appropriate for someone with such a cold heart. It also underscores her status as the Token White of the Kings' lieutenants.
- More Despicable Minion: King is ruthless and self-serving, but he has a certain amount of honor and never indulges in violence for its own sake. Tanya, on the other hand, is a brutal sociopath with no loyalty to anybody who goes behind her boss' back to force women into prostitution. Quite tellingly, when she takes control of the gang, many are unhappy that she's in charge and either drop their flags or rebel against her control.
- Not My Driver: To rescue Gat from Anthony, the Playa poses as her chauffeur and drives her around until she wants to go to his condo. Then they knock her out to reach him.
- Power is Sexy: In IV, Veteran Child explicitly says this about her brief career as leader of the Vice Kings.
- Predatory Prostitute: She's a former prostitute and brothel madam who abuses her women and kidnaps others to force them into prostitution. She also a power-hungry backstabber who ultimately betrays King.
- Rasputinian Death: She is shot by three assault rifles out of a window, and somehow manages to hang on to the ledge before Ben King sends her plummeting to her death.
- Really Gets Around: She is a former hooker after all.
- Ship Tease: In IV, if you have her and Veteran Child as homies, she shyly invites him around to somewhere private with her. He seems pretty eager, too, though he does tell her about that time he held a gun to Shaundi's head. "Eh, I've had guys do worse to me before."
- Sleeping Their Way to the Top: She advanced through the ranks of the Vice King this way. After helping Warren oust King, she kills him to assume full power.
- The Sociopath: Brutal, power-hungry, and indifferent to the working conditions of her kidnapped prostitutes. CID openly calls Tanya a "terrible mistress".
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the post-Cosmic Retcon plot of the first game that happens in Agents of Mayhem, as a result of Kingpin becoming leader of the Vice Kings. Not only does she stay loyal to Kingpin, but she doesn't kill Warren.
- Smug Snake: Even after successfully backstabbing her way to the top of the Vice Kings, she is still easily dispatched by The Playa, King, and Gat when they finally confront her.
- The Starscream: Plays this role alongside Warren towards King. Then kills Warren to get full control of the gang.
- Stripperiffic: Only ever seen in a bra with a miniskirt, stockings and high heels.
- Token White: She's the only white lieutenant of the gang, with the rest being rank-and-file mooks.
- Too Dumb to Live: During the last mission of the Vice Kings arc Johnny, King, and the main character break into her office after wiping out what was left of the gang. They all have guns and she is completely alone without any sort of armor, bodyguards, or protection whatsoever. So what does she do? She taunts them and then tries to pull an assault rifle on them despite the fact they have her outnumbered, outgunned, and already have their own guns pointed right at her, and she doesn't have any body armour to better defend herself. No points for guessing what happens next.
- The Vamp: As Gat puts it, she holds every Vice King higher up (besides King) by their dicks. Her backstory states that she slept her way to the top of the gang.
Los Carnales
The Carnales are the oldest gang in Stilwater and had much of the city under their thumb before the newer gangs started forming. They engage in drugs and arms dealing which makes them powerful foes with a lot of connections. They are ruthless, but rely heavily on the support of their drugs and weapons to keep them afloat.
In General
- Arms Dealer: Along with a healthy hand in the local drug trade.
- Bilingual Bonus: They often speak in Spanish without subtitles.
- The Cartel: Their primary business is drug running.
- Pimped-Out Car: Their gang cars consist of classic lowriders and muscle cars, all trimmed with gold and decals and heavily modified.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Carnales' main gang color is red with black and gold as secondary colors. They happen to be the gang responsible for causing the crime wave and gang epidemic in Stilwater.
Hector Lopez
Hector Lopez
"Angelo... you are my brother and I love you, but if you let your dick fuck things up with the Colombians I'm gonna cut it off."
Played By: Joaquim De Almeida
Appearances: Saints Row | Agents of Mayhem
- Badass in a Nice Suit: A slick, red zoot-suit with a longcoat.
- Beard of Evil: A stylish goatee that fits in his crime lord appearance.
- Blatant Lies: He covers up the Saints' attack on the Carnales' main drug lab by telling Manuel that a courier had been stealing some of his stash and that they found the drugs. Manuel is quick to doubt him.
- Convenient Color Change: In Agents of Mayhem, his zoot suit changes from red to yellow after Kingpin merges Los Carnales into the Vice Kings.
- Disc-One Final Boss: He seems to be the Arc Villain, until he's killed very early in, in which Angelo takes over.
- Dragon Their Feet: He is assassinated four missions into the Carnales' arc, causing Angelo to take over from him.
- Eye Scream: He has one blind eye for some reason.
- I Am Not My Father: Mentioned word for word when Manuel wonders why he doesn't just kill the Saints quickly and painlessly. The tone indicates some bad blood between them as well.
- In-Series Nickname: Kimo.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has an unexplained scar blinding his right eye, which appears to be clouded.
- Groin Attack: When Angelo's relationship with Luz looks like it might interfere with their negotiations with the Columbians, he makes it clear what he'll do if he messes things up for them.Hector: Angelo, you are my brother and I love you, but if your dick gets us in trouble with the Colombians, I'm going to cut it off!
- Non-Action Big Bad: While it is mentioned that he does not back away from gang warfare, Hector refuses to fight the Saints head-on during their attacks on his drug labs and instead covers it up. In addition, he is also the only gang member who is assassinated without having attacked the Saints.
- Pragmatic Villainy: So the Colombian Arms Dealer Hector's working with is a Dirty Old Man with eyes for his brother's girlfriend. Hector lets this slide, because the Carnales need the Colombians' help to maintain their stranglehold on Stilwater. He explicitly warns his more impulsive brother that if he ruins their relationship with Orejuela out of jealousy, he'll cut Angelo's penis off.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the calmer, more rational blue to Angelo.
- Sibling Team: With Angelo.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the post-Cosmic Retcon plot of the first game that happens in Agents of Mayhem, as a result of Kingpin merging both Los Carnales and Westsize Rollerz into the Vice Kings
Angelo Lopez
Angelo Lopez
"Luz, come on mama, don't be so sensitive."
Played By: Freddy Rodriguez
Appearances: Saints Row
- Arc Villain: Takes over Hector as this for the Carnales arc after the latter is killed.
- Ax-Crazy: After his brother dies at the hands of the Saints, he furiously drives into a strip club they're in and starts shooting everyone in sight.
- Beard of Evil: He has a tiny soul patch, in contrast to his brother's manlier goatee.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He looks like John Leguizamo circa William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He's visibly growling when Manuel hits on Luz right in front of him, and she encourages him.
- Dirty Coward: In the last Carnales mission, he orders his escape plane to take off and leave Luz behind at the mercy of the Saints when he finds out that they are on their way to the airport. When a mook asks about what they'll do, he bluntly tells him that he couldn't care less what happens to her so long as he saves his own ass.
- Domestic Abuse: Angelo has a severe lack of respect for Luz, his girlfriend, attacking her various times during the arc. He even leaves her stranded in Stilwater after his flight is about to take off.
- The Dragon: For the Carnales arc.
- Dragon Ascendant: After Hector dies, Angelo becomes the primary antagonist of the Carnales arc.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He gets very angry when he finds out about Hector's death. Subverted with Luz, who he regularly abuses and leaves stranded during his getaway.
- Fatal Flaw: Wrath. When the Carnales' drug operations are destroyed by the Saints, Angelo's anger is enough to put off Manuel from their deal and steer him towards dealing with the Saints. Then when Hector is killed, he ends up losing Victor by trying to get vengeance on the Saints. Angelo's constant attacks cause enough damage to the gang's operations that he attempts to flee town by plane, leaving him to get killed at the last minute.
- Foreign-Language Tirade: He goes on a Spanish rant at Manuel after the Colombian leaves to tend to his girlfriend. Hector chides him for it.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: Attempts to flee town by a jet plane, forcing the Boss and Dex to shoot him down with an RPG just before he can take off.
- Hot-Blooded: Angelo is at the mercy of his fierce temper. Though with a creep hitting on your girlfriend that you can't do anything about, dealing with your brother's murder, and the Saints screwing up operations constantly, it's all perfectly understandable.
- In-Series Nickname: Lobo.
- Mistaken for Betrayal: Falsely believes that Manuel is responsible for Hector's assassination and tries having him killed with the Saints during their deal.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the Carnales' territory and drug businesses are taken over by the Saints, Angelo attempts to skip town via plane to rebuild.
- Sibling Team: With Hector.
- The Dragon: To Hector until he's killed..
- Villainous Breakdown: Completely loses his shit when Hector dies.
- You Are in Command Now: He takes over after Hector is killed.
Victor Rodriguez
Victor Rodriguez
"SÃ, pero primero vamos a golpear a Freckle Bitch's."
Played By: Philip Anthony-Rodriguez
Appearances: Saints Row
- Bilingual Bonus: He only speaks in Spanish during his appearances.
- The Brute: He's able to withstand several bullets, forcing the Playa and Dex to drive off rather than take him down. It takes being set on fire to actually kill him.
- Damage-Sponge Boss: All that boasting you hear about him aren't just the Carnales trying to act tough... During his boss fight, he can take several slugs from the best shotgun available at Friendly Fire and keep going... and this after he gets caught in an explosion and set on fire.
- Immune to Bullets: In his opening cutscene, a Saints mook shoots him with a handgun at near point blank range. He simply shrugs it off, helps his friend Angelo kill the remaining Saints, and then the two of them head off to grab some fast food instead of paying a visit to the hospital. It takes being caught in a truck explosion, set on fire, and being riddled with several rounds of ammo before the Saints finally put him down!
- In-Series Nickname: Tanque.
- Kill It with Fire: After having his truck destroyed, he manages to escape covered in flames, which eventually kills him alongside being riddled with bullets.
- Made of Iron: Holy shit. It's even lampshaded by Julius.Julius: You gotta be fuckin' kidding me! What's this muthafucka' made of?
- The Quiet One: Doesn't speak much. What little he does is in Spanish.
- Rasputinian Death: It takes a massive explosion, being set on fire, and several bullets to put him down for good.
- Stone Wall: Some damn solid stone, too.
- Super-Persistent Predator: If you use cheats like infinite ammo and blow up his vehicle, he will still chase after you on foot. Since you are scripted to lose him, even your nearby Saint-controlled Mook and tagged partners cannot take him down.
- Tattooed Crook: He wears impressive arm tattoos.
Luz Avalos
Luz Avalos
"It looks like you're running off to get killed."
Played By: Andrea Zafra
- All Women Love Shoes: She manages to avoid being killed alongside Angelo because she went to buy shoes for the flight. When we see her in 2, she's working in a shoe store. Too bad she can't buy the correct seasons.
- Anti-Villain: Although she's presented as being the girlfriend of Angelo, Luz is never actually portrayed as a villain and isn't involved in the Carnales' dirty work. The Boss joins up with her in 2 during the Ronin Drug Trafficking sidequest.
- Brainless Beauty: She seems somewhat ditzy, and she doesn't buy fashionable shoes.
- Brick Joke: The Boss telling her that her shoes are "last season's" is referenced when you meet her in 2.Luz: Let me set the record straight; those shoes were not last season.
- Demoted to Extra: In Saints Row 2. Justified, given that the Carnales have been wiped out at this point and Manuel is now using her as a drug mule after he found someone younger.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: She regularly suffers from Domestic Abuse inflicted by Angelo, her own boyfriend, while both Hector and Victor joke about it at her expense. Hector even mentions that he always thought she was a "bitch".
- Gold Digger: Why she hooks up with Manuel. Comes back to bite her when he cuts her off for a younger woman. It doesn't stop her from asking the Boss to steal vehicles for her to give him for his birthday.
- Heel–Face Turn: She returns in 2 as a drug dealer the Boss partners with.
- Love Will Lead You Back: She's one of the clients in 2's Chop Shop sidequest, where she hopes to gift Manuel cars for his birthday to win him back.
- Missed the Bus: She misses Hector's flight out of Stilwater because she bought shoes. It saves her life.
- Not Worth Killing: Dex initially considers shooting her for incessantly asking about Manuel's whereabouts, but decides not to after she flees.
- Running Gag: Her obsession with shoes. Outdated shoes, at that.
- Working with the Ex: By the events of 2, Manuel has left her for someone younger, but she still works as his drug mule. She also has the Boss steal cars for her to gift him in the hopes of winning him back.
Westside Rollerz
A new gang in Stilwater formed by kids from the suburbs and car mechanics. The only thing they love more than pimped out rides are the illegal street races they use them in. They are implied to run chop shops but also receive funding from the wealthy William Sharp, the uncle of the gang's official leader, Joseph Price.
In General
- Car Fu: Almost all of their missions involve driving cars and they are not afraid of getting rough with them, especially during their street races.
- Fragile Speedster: Their choice of vehicles are flashy imported tuners that have excellent speed and acceleration, but are easily destroyed by a few bullets and have poor crash resistance.
- Pretty Fly for a White Guy: The whole gang is basically a bunch of White and Asian kids from the suburbs playing The Fast and the Furious. Just their name alone screams this trope.
- Freudian Trio:
- Price: Id
- Sharp: Superego
- Donnie: Ego
- White Gangbangers: Most of their members are white guys from the suburbs who like cars.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Their name causes them to be taken less seriously by the other gangs.
Joseph Price
Joseph Price
"These streets were ours before those bitches from the Row showed up!"
Played By: Gregory Sims
Appearances: Saints Row | Agents of Mayhem
- Affably Evil: He's a total softie towards Donnie. When Donnie disappears after Lin's death, he blames the Saints for supposedly harming him. While he does run a gang, it's really hard to pin down exactly how evil he really is. Hell, one could make the argument that Sharp is the real leader of the gang and Price is just an amazingly charismatic PR head useful for recruiting new members. This doesn't diminish his value any though. Because a man like the cold and calculating Sharp isn't going to be good for PR among a street gang, nor would it look good for Sharp to get his hands dirty.
- Arc Villain: Of the Westside Rollerz story arc.
- Bald of Evil: To further make him resemble Vin Diesel.
- Cool Car: His modified Attrazione. The final Rollerz stronghold mission tasks the player with stealing it.
- Cool Shades: Never seen without a pair of blackout sunglasses on.
- Drugs Are Bad: Downplayed. He gets irritated when he catches Donnie high, believing it ruins his focus.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He thinks of his mechanic, Donnie, as a friend and genuinely cares for his uncle.
- Expy: Looks like Dominic Toretto from The Fast and the Furious, and like Toretto he's involved in car-related crimes.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: His boss battle involves chasing his loaded semi-truck down on a highway while various Rollerz members try to distract you.
- It's Personal: Sends his gang out to retaliate against the Saints after Sharp's murder and Donnie's disappearance.
- Pet the Dog: He has a soft spot for Donnie and he really does think of him as a friend, even defending him after Sharp continuously criticizes him.
- Poke the Poodle: Insulting Lin's breasts is pretty rude, but a lot less overtly evil than the antics his uncle carries out.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: If his comment about Lin's breasts is anything to go by. Then again, the rest of the Rollerz are also misogynists.
- Rousing Speech: Near the end of the Rollerz arc, he decides to try and take the fight to Saint's Row and stirs his mooks into a frenzy with one of these. Unfortunately for him, the Rollerz are too far gone at that point, and the Saints have no trouble stopping the convoy with a counter-attack. Still, you have to give the man points for trying:Price: "These streets were ours before those bitches from the Row showed up! And when they stepped, what did we do? They fucked up our race and we just took it. They fucked up our deliveries, and we just took it. And now they killed my uncle, and who knows what the fuck they did to Donnie. Now, I'm only gonna say this once. We're not gonna sit here and fuckin' take it! Light 'em up, boys! We're burning Saint's Row to the ground!
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: Wears a pitch-black tank top that emphasizes his muscle mass.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the post-Cosmic Retcon plot of the first game that happens in Agents of Mayhem, as a result of Kingpin merging both Los Carnales and Westsize Rollerz into the Vice Kings.
- Tattooed Crook: He wears nice tattoo rings on his arms.
- Vehicular Combat: He attempts to run over the Playa with a semi-truck loaded with other cars he sets on fire to try kill them.
- Villainous Breakdown: After Sharp is killed and Donnie goes off the grid, he orders his gang to raze Saint's Row to the ground. When the Saints manage to fight the gang off, he tries to ram the Playa down with his semi-truck, which gets him killed.
William Sharp
William Sharp
"I know he's your friend, Joseph, but I will not let that nimrod ruin my plans."
Played By: David Carradine
Appearances: Saints Row
- Ambiguous Situation: The buyers he and Price deal with. They're never seen, but the car parts the Playa prevents the Rollerz from obtaining have something to do with them, suggesting that they sell parts to them. The only information given about them is by Donnie, and even then, Sharp abruptly cuts him off. Julius actually considers them a loose end once Price is killed. While cut dialogue in 2 reveals that one of the chop shop mission-givers made contact with them, Steve Jaros later confirmed on Twitter
that the Ronin from Saints Row 2 are the buyers. - Amoral Attorney: He's perfectly willing to bribe a jury into bailing out Rollerz members in exchange for money and hookers, and eventually kidnaps and kills Lin and tries doing the same to Playa.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: While he mostly lets Price handle the physical aspects of running the gang, he is not afraid to get his own hands dirty. In fact, he has the honor of being the only rival gang member in the game to take out one of the Saints' top players, Lin.
- Creepy Monotone: He speaks in a deep, emotionless voice that reflects on his Lack of Empathy and his snarkiness towards Lin and Donnie. The creepiness is emphasized when he ties up Lin and shoots her in front of Donnie without any feelings.Sharp: Look at you. All tied up, pretty as a present. I think it's time to unwrap you...
- Deadpan Snarker: Almost every other sentence is dripping with snark, and he delivers a paragraph full of them to Lin when they first meet.Sharp: So your plan is to go steal cars. You really know how to think outside the box, Donnie.
- Evil Genius: Sharp is the brains of the Rollerz for a reason.
- Evil Old Folks: He's older than his nephew and a lot more competent at scheming.
- Evil Sounds Deep: His monotonous, deadpan voice is one of his defining traits.
- Evil Uncle: Price's to be specific.
- Failed a Spot Check: While he manages to fatally wound Lin to prevent her from telling the truth to Donnie, he doesn't account for Playa. Lin ends up sacrificing herself to let Playa escape, allowing them to kill Sharp in revenge.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: He is found driving away in a luxury sports car with four Rollerz guarding him. When the car is destroyed, he will attempt to kill the Playa with a 44 Shepherd.
- Hate Sink: Unlike his Affably Evil nephew, Sharp is condescendingly snarky towards everyone around him, particularly towards Donnie and Lin. Particularly, he berates the former's plans in front of him, and even shoots Lin in front of him while asking him to help dispose of her body.
- Hero Killer: He shoots Lin and pushes her into the river locked in a car trunk to drown, along with the Playa. He only manages to kill Lin, though.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Price is the face, but Sharp keeps things running.
- Karmic Death: He kills Lin by shooting her and pushing her into the river while she's still locked in the trunk of her car, along with the Playa. As soon as the Playa escapes from the car and the river, guess what they do next? Drive after Sharp and kill him.
- The Man Behind the Man: He runs things behind the scenes, while Price does the field work.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Compared to his gang, Sharp lives in a gated mansion in the suburbs and dresses in a formal suit to fit his occupation. He drives a modified version of the Justice, an expensive sports car that serves as the game's equivalent to the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: While he does shoot Lin, he does it in front of Donnie, causing Donnie to run away and leave him without much backup. The bullet only wounding Lin gives her enough time to save Playa from drowning and allows them to kill him.
- Smug Snake: He is oozing with contempt toward everyone, thinks he can do the dirty work by himself despite being just a lawyer.
- The Sociopath: Seems to be completely indifferent to the feelings of others. When he takes Lin out in front of Donnie, he merely tells him to calm down after he freaks out.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: He rarely raises his voice, keeping his composure after shooting Lin despite Donnie freaking out. He eventually loses it when the Playa starts to chase him down.
- Villain Ball: He fails to shoot the Playa alongside Lin, which bites him hard when Lin performs a Heroic Sacrifice that allows him to escape and take Price down.
- Villain with Good Publicity: The public simply see him as a lawyer and radio commercials mention him being the president of Citizens For Hughes and a major contributor to his mayoral campaign.
- Would Hit a Girl: He has no problem slapping a defenseless woman while she was tied to a chair, and then shooting her right when she's about to be drowned to death. Granted, she was a spy and feeding info to the Saints, but that was just a massive dick move on his part.
Donnie Wong
Donnie (also a member of the The Brotherhood in Saints Row 2)
"I scared the shit outta me."
Played By: Andrew Kishino
Appearances: Saints Row | Saints Row 2 | Enter the Dominatrix
- All Love Is Unrequited: Implied to have had a crush on Lin after she saves him and random gang member dialogue in the first game suggests they may have had sex. Upon witnessing her death, he even calls her his girl, and still mourns her five years later.
- Always Save the Girl: In IV's Enter the Dominatrix DLC, both Shaundi and the Boss lampshade this, though he tries to deny it.
- Anti-Villain: He is just a mechanic, but since he is also a weakling, he makes a good target whenever the Boss needs to grill someone for info.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: By the time IV rolls around (the Enter the Dominatrix DLC, for that matter), his taste in clothing seems to have improved along with his ability to kick ass.
- Becoming the Mask: One of his cut Audio Logs in IV seems to reflect on this. Throughout his life, he was forced by the Boss to betray the gangs he was in, but he couldn't oppose them either. To add to this, he knew Lin was a member of the Third Street Saints despite her stint as a Rollerz member. Considering his role in the original script for Enter the Dominatrix (before being repurposed into IV and its DLC of the same name) was to help the Boss fight against Zinyak, he might as well be a member of the Saints in the long run.
- Born Lucky: If not for his connections to both Price and Jessica, he would've been killed a long time ago.
- Born Unlucky: On the other hand, every time he gets a stable gig with a gang, he inevitably ends up being terrorized by The Boss.
- The Bus Came Back: He returns in the Enter the Dominatrix DLC of IV after being absent in The Third, with his absence in the main game being explained as him being cut from the main game.
- Butt-Monkey: Poor Donnie just never catches a break.
- Cassandra Truth: Donnie really didn't have anything to do with Lin's death and tries to explain as such to the Boss in 2, but the Boss doesn't believe him.
- Cast Speciation: In-Universe. Kinzie states that Donnie was cut out of IV because she and Matt already filled the role of tech-savvy smart guys and they both blackmailed enough people to ensure that they remained in the game. Donnie didn't get the memo until during the interview.
- Did Not Get the Girl: He begins to see Lin as a crush after she pretends to save him, even calling her his girl after Sharp shoots her.
- Due to the Dead: After wiping out the three gangs, he's seen holding a picture of Lin while sitting on her car. In the second game, he even visits the place she was killed to throw a wreath into the water, and drives a Voxel, the same car as her, with the Latin phrase "Memoria in Aeterna" ("forever remembered" or "in eternal memory") as a decal. Searching through the files of the game lists the car as the "Linmobile", suggesting Donnie salvaged and resprayed her car.
- Expy: In the Enter the Dominatrix DLC for IV, he becomes a parody of Morpheus.
- First-Name Basis: Donnie's last name is only revealed in dialogue with a random male civilian in Saints Row, who reveals that he's Wong Shen Tai's nephew.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: A somewhat villainous example, one of his cut Audio Logs from IV has him lament his inability to save Lin despite being in the opposing gang.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He isn't actually a villain, but Donnie is such a Butt-Monkey, that he winds up as this.
- Grease Monkey: Hence his mechanic spot in the Rollerz and the Brotherhood.
- The Mentor: His original role in IV according to the Enter the Dominatrix DLC was to teach the Boss how to use their powers.
- Mr. Fixit: For both the Rollerz and the Brotherhood.
- Oh, Crap!: He has this reaction when he turns around to find the Boss holding a gun to his head.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The reason why he survives the first two games. After Sharp shoots Lin right in front of him, he leaves, refusing to help Sharp push her into the river, and swears off criminal activity.
- Sunglasses at Night: Part of his new outfit in IV are a pair of sunglasses he wears at all times, even if called at night.
- Took a Level in Badass In the Enter the Dominatrix DLC.
- Heart Broken Badass: And he still misses Lin post-DLC when he talks by himself.
- Unluckily Lucky: The man has some strange luck. He's repeatedly found himself in situations where his life was on the line, yet he always lives to see another day (the same can't be said about his friends or colleagues, however). He also unwittingly vouches for an undercover Saint, survives the downfall of the two gangs he rolled with, and, if his cut Audio Logs are any indications, gets abducted by the Zin Empire. That last one saves him from being a casualty of Earth's destruction.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Sharp shoots Lin right in front of him, he completely freaks out and leaves Sharp alone and defenseless right before Playa manages to break himself out of the car truck Sharp tossed him into. Even several years later in 2, it was shown he was still deeply affected by Lin's death.
- Villainous Friendship: He's friends with Joseph in the first game and seems to be friends with Matt in the second game.
