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* '''[[TakeAThirdOption Option C]]'''. Instead of killing Michael or Trevor, Franklin decides to unite with the two against everyone who wronged them throughout the game. This results in the trio, with help from Lamar, taking on Merryweather in a massive assault before going after Steve Haines, Stretch and Mr. Cheng all at once. This ends with Trevor kidnapping Devin and the trio meeting at a cliffside with Devin still in the truck of a car, [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech giving Devin a few choice words]], and them pushing his car (with him trapped inside) off the side of the cliff, ending the game.

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'''Trevor''': The [=CEO=] position's gonna be vacant ''real'' soon, Slick!\\

'''Devin''': '''''[[VillainousBreakdown YOU CREEPY BUM!!]] ''''' You're fucked! ''FUCKED!''

** The way Trevor ''finally'' [[KickTheSonOfABitch kills off the Minute Men]] is also awesome too. After Joe and [[CommieNazis Josef]] cross the MoralEventHorizon by attempting to "arrest" an innocent family at gun-point (implying they were about to violate their one, measly virtue of ThouShaltNotKill), Trevor shows up, and tells them he's here to shut them down. When [[UnderestimatingBadassery they try to fight back]], [[CurbStompBattle it does NOT end well for them]]. Bonus points for the optional objective [[LaserGuidedKarma to taser them]] before killing them, called "[[LampshadeHanging What Goes Around...]]"

* When Michael re-unites with Amanda after she moved out of the house, she's initially hesitant to come back to him, but then her yoga instructor Fabien starts to act like a {{jerkass}} to her, Michael and Jimmy. Amanda finally realizes what a douchebag he is and tells Michael to "[[KickTheSonOfABitch just hit him already]]". Michael obliges by picking up a nearby laptop and smashing it into Fabien's head, and Jimmy [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown Kicks Him When He's Down]] for good measure.

** Particularly satisfying is when Trevor takes out Steve Haines, clipping him on a ferris wheel with a sniper rifle. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy]]...

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** What's the best thing about this whole thing? It's implied to be the '''true''' ending to the game, since it has its own artwork and a few scenes in the trailer, along with franchise tradition signaling the protagonists' victory. [[note]] Later events in ''Online'' confirms Option C canon, meaning all three survived after crushing their enemies, and got away successfully.[[/note]]
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[[folder:''Grand Theft Auto Online'']]
* The finale of the final Online Heist: After robbing the Pacific Standard bank, you and your crew hop on motorcycles and lead the police on a chase across half of San Andreas. At the end of the chase you drive your bikes off a cliff, deploy parachutes, and glide to a boat that's waiting in the river below. It's a stunt straight out of a James Bond film.
* The setups are also awesome. In one of them, you steal a Hydra from an aircraft carrier and later get involved in an aerial fight with other jets. Once all jets are down, guess what happens? [[Film/TopGun Danger fucking Zone plays on the radio!]][[note]]Only in the Next Gen version, though[[/note]]
* Getting a jet snipe in Online. For those who don't know, it's when you take down a jet without using any type of RPG, instead, using a ''sniper rifle''.[[note]]It's harder than it sounds. Since the PlayerCharacter shoots roughly half a second after you hit the trigger, you have to compensate for where the jet is going to be when he does shoot, which is damn near impossible[[/note]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl9KMqorP2A&feature=youtu.be Here's a good example]].
* Whenever you are on your Yacht and its defenses are up, you can just sit back and watch as even Hydras and Lazers are unable to attack you.
-->'''Yacht Captain:''' (paraphrased) I just want to assure you, you cannot be harmed while aboard your Yacht.
* Beating the Criminal Mastermind Challenge with your friends is a good reason to celebrate, as you need to beat every heist with the same people, in order, without '''anyone''' dying, on Hard difficulty. Luckily you're allowed to fail a mission, but if anyone dies it's back to the start, and "the start" means going '''right back to The Fleeca Job.''' Anyone who manages to beat this challenge is awarded with '''''10 million fucking dollars'''''.
* Succesfully managing to sneak up onto a player and killing them is something that is satisfying to do in many online games, but when you sneak up on a player [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bx8pBHB6b4&feature=youtu.be while hiding in plain sight]] is a whole new level.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZgVGFwKo0 The Doomsday Heist]]. ''Dear God'', The Doomsday Heist. The update includes a flying car straight out of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', a submarine car out of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', a new underground base, a series of heists involving ''saving the world'', a team-up between heist-givers Lester and Agent 14, and after years of absence, '''''the fucking jetpack'''''!
** If that wasn't enough, the final mission of said heist ''blows the trailer out of the water'': [[NiceJobBreakingItHero After the Online Protagonists accidentally help Avon and Cliffford in their plans to destroy humanity,]] Lester, Agent 14 and Mrs. Rackman arrange an attack on an abandoned nuclear silo Avon and Cliffford took over with either an [[CoolCar armed jeep]] or [[TankGoodness a tank]].[[note]]The vehicle you don't choose Lester will sell to get everyone extra money.[[/note]] After mowing down a tunnel full of Mooks and [[SuperSoldier Juggernauts]], you have to plow the rest down on foot due to a spike strip, while blowing up any backup copies of Cliffford in case Avon tries this again. When you reach the refurbished main command centre, Cliffford initially blocks you, until Lester [[ChekhovsSkill trolls]] him into opening the door for you. After getting in, you have to defend one Protagonist while they try to hack into the countdown sequence while killing more mooks. After that, each Protagonist takes control of an '''''orbital cannon''''' to blow up all the mobile data farms to kill Cliffford. Now you have to confront Avon, since he also has the last backup of Cliffford on him...but he takes off in a jetpack, causing the Protagonists to take an ''armed'' jetpack each and shoot down Avon and blow up a few helicopters trying to kill you. Keep in mind that these are crooks who were friends with an unsuccessful gangster they met on Lifeinvader who they decided to visit in an unfamiliar territory, who eventually grew from holding up shops and banks to eventually '''''managing to save the world.'''''
** Heck, even a ''setup mission'' deserves a mention: During ''Act I: Data Breaches'', one setup requires you to steal four "Deluxo" brand cars. If you don't know, they're based on a [=DeLorean=] DMC-12. After a quick respray and plate change, they're sent to the facility for Avon's team to modify them. The next mission has you take the Deluxo's for a spin, now with onboard weaponry and "extra features". You're sent to hack three sets of targets with them. The first targets are fairly straightforward, as you're stealing data from four armoured trucks, then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness blowing them up with the missile system]]. The second targets, however, are at sea. Because of this, Avon shows you the first extra feature, which turns the Deluxo into a floating hovercraft so you can hack the boats harbouring data and then destroy them when you're done.]]The final target ''really takes the cake'', as it's a [[SerialEscalation plane at LSIA]] ''[[SerialEscalation about to take off]]''. Avon now introduces you to the final feature, ''[[Franchise/BackToTheFuture flying Deluxo's]]''. With at least one member of your team leeching the data from the plane, the remaining members have to shoot down a bunch of helicopters out for your ass, then finishing off with ''spamming missiles at the plane to shoot it down''. Repeat, this is a ''setup mission''.
* '''THE ORBITAL WEAPONS SYSTEM.''' Once installed in your facility the Cannon will be usable to kill ANYONE, ANY TIME (with a few exceptions) every 48 minutes, complete with an entirely unique WASTED screen for your victim reading the words OBLITERATED. The catch is how soul-crushingly expensive it is (900k to install, costs as much as a Turismo R to fire, and costs more than a Cheetah to fire with auto-targeting) and how everyone in-session is alerted somebody used their orbital cannon. However, nobody except your victim learns the user's identity.
* ''The Diamond Casino Heist.'' In its entirety. You got a heavily expanded version of the Heist planning seen in single-player, crew members making minor appearances to source equipment and the like, and a massive, sprawling casino with which you will tear apart for your gain, either guns blazing or ''Film/OceansEleven'' style, all planned out of a arcade with a small cameo appearance from Jimmy of all people. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and Lester gets laid with Georgina Cheng at the end.]]
* ''The Cayo Perico Heist.'' If you think the ''Doomsday Heist'' and the ''Diamond Casino Heist'' were the best ''Grand Theft Auto Online'' has to offer, then '''think again'''. This update introduces a whole new batch of vehicles, some new weapons and radio stations, and a heist that takes players '''beyond the familiar cityscape of San Andreas and into the tropical Caribbean island of Cayo Perico'''.
** Remember back in the ''Doomsday Heist'' where you have to infiltrate a nuclear submarine? In the ''Cayo Perico Heist'', you can now purchase and operate '''your very own nuclear submarine''', the Kosatka, to be used in infiltrating the island undetected. And if you got a lot of money, you also have the option to fit your submarine with guided missiles and sonar equipment, as well as a small helicopter and a couple of underwater vehicles (one of which happens to be a submersible car that is similar to the Stromberg). And unlike the Galaxy Super Yacht, you can actually drive the submarine as well!
** And to top it all off, the heist can actually be done by just one player, from start to finish. You read that right. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Just. One. Player.]] This means you can perform reconnaissance and gather intel on the island, make the preparations and setups for the heist, and even perform the actual heist ''all on your own''. Essentially, you can become a OneManArmy against a powerful drug lord and his private island full of guards and defenses, '''and still manage to steal millions of dollars worth of drugs and valuables while you're at it!'''
* During one of the main missions within “The Contract” arc, if you own BOTH a [[AwesomeButImpractical super yacht]] and a Diamond Casino penthouse (Two of the most expensive properties in the game with upgrades) Franklin and [[TheCracker Imani]] will drop a comment, cementing your status as a [[OneManArmy One Man Army,]] in addition to finally acknowledging your criminal empire.

--> After discussing about the Diamond Casino for the next part of the job:
-->'''Imani:''' Hey, don’t you have a penthouse there?
-->'''Franklin:''' Wait… man, you got a penthouse AND a super yacht? Man, who the fuck did you rob?!
-->'''Imani:''' [[OneManArmy According to my research... everybody.]]
-->'''Franklin:''' Hahaha! [[VillainRespect Now that’s why you my motherfuckin’ partner!]]
** Through the entire time you work with Franklin, you are his partner. You aren’t his lackey, you aren’t working ''FOR'' him, you're working ''WITH'' him, and he makes this very clear from the get-go. Considering everyone else you’ve worked with has either [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness treated you like a tool]] or have [[DudeWheresMyRespect treated you like a random thug off the street]] it’s ''very'' refreshing to be working with someone as an obvious equal.
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'''Trevor''': The [=CEO=] position's gonna be vacant ''real'' soon, slick!\\
'''Devin''': I got nothing against you, apart from the obvious hygiene issues. Michael caused me problems, so Michael had to go!\\
'''Trevor''': ''You're'' looking at it ''rationally'' - there are people useful to you, and people who ain't, so people who gotta go! Me? ''[[TheUnfettered I'm not rational]]'', [[TheUnfettered I don't]] ''[[TheUnfettered care]]'' [[TheUnfettered if you're useful, or not.]] I ''[[ForTheEvulz feel]]'' like taking you out, Devo, so that's what I'm doing.\\
'''Devin''': This is a serious offer! Work for me, you'll have ''everything'' you ever wanted!\\
'''Trevor''': [[BrutalHonesty All I ever wanted is to see you drift in and out of consciousness as you're slowly disemboweled!]]\\

'''Trevor''': Look, I got ''my own'' company - Trevor Phillips Industries!\\

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* The game earning '''$800,000,000''' in a single day. Three days later, '''''it made over a billion dollars.'''''
** Since 2022, the game has earned '''''$8 billion'''''. Need a basic idea? It grossed more than '''''Franchise/StarWars''''' or '''''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'''''.
** ''V'' has also accomplished a thought to be impossible feat: it has become not only the fastest-selling game ever made, but also '''the fastest selling''' '''''product made in the entire realm of entertainment, period.'''''
** ''V'' remains so successful to this day that when Creator/EpicGames made the Online Premium Edition of the game free on their Epic Games Store, [[DemandOverload their servers crashed within minutes of the game's free period starting.]]
* Rockstar's reaction to the game being banned by Target Australia and K-Mart Australia? Simply point out how the people who created the petition demanding its ban are a VocalMinority compared to the ''millions'' who've enjoyed it, act more calm and level-headed than the organization that created the petition, and bluntly state that "If you don't like it, don't play it."
* Bootsy Friggin' Collins Of P-Funk fame is featured on one of the fictional radio stations in all his Funky glory.
* Exploitation Queen Pam Grier DJing the soul radio station The Lowdown in all her sassy motherfucking epicness!
* Ned Luke, Steven Ogg and Shawn Fonteno with their preparations prior to mocapping, but props to Ned for not turning it down and doing the research by actually spending time with the previous games in order to learn more about the series.
** Ned also gained over twenty pounds to get more into character.
* Nine years after the game's release in 2013, Rockstar is still producing free DLC for ''GTA Online'', and copies still sell near to the original full price in retail stores. TakeThat, ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''!
* Remember the opening cutscene for "Fresh Meat", where Trevor accidentally trips over a fence and rants at Franklin for laughing at him? Turns out it '''[[ThrowItIn wasn't actually scripted]]'''. Creator/StevenOgg did indeed trip during the mo-cap session, and Franklin's reaction was actually Shawn Fonteno breaking out into laughter. Rather than halt the scene, however, Ogg opted to keep it going by staying in character and improvising Trevor's entire rant (Fonteno simply played along); since it added an entirely new layer to Trevor's character, it was kept in the game. It really does speak volumes about Ogg's professionalism and dedication to the character when he can make up one of Trevor's most iconic moments completely off the top of his head.

-->'''Michael:''' ''Don't make me come back here.''

** The first plan ("[[XanatosGambit Subtle]]") starts with the crew [[BavarianFireDrill hijacking and impersonating an armored car convoy to transfer the gold]], makes a clean getaway with Franklin manipulating the Los Santos traffic lights, has a close-call when the crew has [[ATeamFiring a frantic firefight]] [[WeHaveReserves with dozens of]] [[NGOSuperpower Merryweather]] [[HiredGuns Mercenaries]] in an underpass shantytown, and ends with a long car ChaseScene between the LemmingCops and four heavily-modified {{Cool Car}}s loaded with the gold, which [[SoLongSuckers vanish into thin air]] [[DrivingIntoATruck by driving into two cargo trucks]].
** The second plan ("[[DynamicEntry Obvious]]") starts with Michael and his gunman [[LeeroyJenkins crashing the bank lobby]] [[FalseFlagOperation to create a diversion]] for Franklin and his gunman to [[ThisIsADrill use a giant drill]] [[DynamicEntry to burst into the gold room]]. After Trevor and one of your {{Badass Driver}}s secure the gold with their helicopters, the ground team [[LastStand has to fight off practically every police officer in Los Santos in their escape]], while ''[[TheEvilGenius Lester]]'' [[NonActionGuy of all people]] [[TookALevelInBadass covers Trevor's wingman from]] [[NGOSuperpower Merryweather]] [[DeathFromAbove Buzzards]] [[BlastingTime with an RPG]].

* In the final "Minute Men" mission, you meet a Latino land owner who Trevor had previously tased and helped the Boarder Patrol abduct. He proceeds to calmly give Trevor a scathing WhatTheHellHero speech for helping the RightWingMilitiaFanatic {{Absolute Xenophobe}}s [[MoneyDearBoy just because the money was good]] before demanding that Trevor make amends, and ''[[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules refusing to pay Trevor a cent for it]]''. He [[NervesOfSteel doesn't even flinch]] when Trevor puts a gun right to his temple. Trevor then proceeds to do everything the man demanded. That dude is ''awesome''.

*** The way Trevor ''[[LaserGuidedKarma finally]]'' [[KickTheSonOfABitch kills off the]] [[AssholeVictim Minute Men]] is also awesome too. After Joe and [[CommieNazis Josef]] cross the MoralEventHorizon by attempting to "arrest" an innocent family at gun-point (implying they were about to violate their one, measly virtue of ThouShaltNotKill), Trevor shows up, and tells them he's here to shut them down. When [[UnderestimatingBadassery they try to fight back]], [[CurbStompBattle it does NOT end well for them]]. Bonus points for the optional objective [[LaserGuidedKarma to taser them]] before killing them, called "[[LampshadeHanging What Goes Around...]]"
---->'''Joe''': [[TooDumbToLive Stay out of this]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain you dumb Canadian!]]\\

* Both times when Michael and Trevor [[HumiliationConga humiliate]] [[AssholeVictim Lazlow]] [[DirtyOldMan for acting sleazy towards]] [[MoralityPet Tracey]]: the first time (after he gropes Tracey during her Fame Or Shame audition), they chase him down (in a big rig, no less!) and force him to dance in his underwear while they videotape it. The second time is in a tattoo parlor, after Michael overhears him talking about wanting her to blow him so she can get back on Fame or Shame; he forcibly gives Lazlow piercings, lasers a tattoo of a dick on him, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and cuts off his ponytail]].

* At the end of the "Kifflom!" missions, you can [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence achieve "Enlightenment"]] by delivering a carload of money to a helicopter (which will fly it to Cris Fromage in the Cayman Islands), and receive...[[AntiClimax a rust-bucket tractor]]. ''Or'' [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder you can blow the helicopter out of the sky, kill all the Epsilon security guards]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and drive away with the car]] [[MoneyDearBoy $2.1 million richer]]. The post-mission phonecall from Cris in the latter option. hammers home how much you've screwed up his scam.

'''Cris:''' [[VillainousBreakdown Don't you realize how powerful I am?! I make or break Vinewood careers!]] ''[[WeWillMeetAgain I will]] '''[[WeWillMeetAgain destroy]]''' [[WeWillMeetAgain you...]]''\\

* Think it was awesome when "[[VideoGame/PaydayTheHeist The Payday Gang]]" [[Awesome/PaydayTheHeist broke into the]] UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} [[ImpossibleThief office]]? Well, Michael and Franklin's crew one-up them when they break into the FIB Los Santos offices to wipe some evidence on [[CorruptCop Steve Haines' behalf]]. The first option is one long BavarianFireDrill literally: Michael plants some firebombs while disguised as a janitor, detonates them, and then has the crew storm the building disguised as firefighters to snatch the server in the chaos. The second option [[DynamicEntry has you skydive onto the building]], and has the crew [[HoldTheLine hold off the FIB mooks]] while the team Hacker does some good old-fashioned HollywoodHacking, before rappelling down the side of the building when the extraction helicopter crashes. Bonus points for [[LethalJokeCharacter Rickie]] potentially showing he TookALevelInBadass from the Jewelry Store Job, and your BadassDriver showing their ability to be CrazyPrepared by showing up to the scene in an ambulance, which is just the thing the team needs to leave the scene inconspicuously.

* The story of [[BadassDriver Taliana Martinez's]] near-escape before she meets the player: she and three friends were about to rob a pawn shop, but it turned out to be a police sting. Barely getting in the car with one of her partners, Taliana burned rubber like a bat out of hell, having to flee nearly half the cops in the state, and [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming through]] ''[[RuleOfThree three]]'' [[RammingAlwaysWorks police roadblocks]]. [[HopeSpot She would've been home-free...]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder If her partner didn't decide to knife her]]... [[TooDumbToLive while she was busy driving at 100 miles an hour]]. Needless to say, [[LaserGuidedKarma he gets his stupid carcass smeared across the freeway]], but [[MadeOfIron Taliana is barely able to hold out until]] [[BigDamnHeroes the player ends up rescuing her]].

'''Trevor''': ''You're'' looking at it ''rationally'' - there are people useful to you, and people who ain't, so people who gotta go! Me? ''[[TheUnfettered I'm not rational]]'', [[TheUnfettered I don't]] ''[[TheUnfettered care]]'' [[TheUnfettered if you're useful, or not.]] I ''[[ForTheEvulz feel]]'' [[ForTheEvulz like taking you out, Devo, so that's what I'm doing.]]\\

'''Trevor''': [[BrutalHonesty All I ever wanted is to see you]] [[ColdBloodedTorture drift in and out of consciousness as you're slowly disemboweled!]]\\

'''Trevor''': I dunno if you heard, but I'm kinda gold rich right now, so [[ShutUpHannibal you got precisely]] ''[[AwfulTruth nothing]]'' [[ShutUpHannibal to offer.]] [[PrepareToDie Prepare for the end, my friend.]]\\

** Be honest. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential How many people kept driving like a madman]], [[KickTheSonOfABitch slamming the trunk of the car]] [[CatharsisFactor into everything they could see?]]

** During the setup, Trevor recommends bringing along Chef as the third gunman, calling him a "consummate professional." ''He's not kidding''. Halfway through the heist, Chef splits off from Michael and Trevor to distract the cops and give them a chance to get away. Not only does he make an opening, he fends off the cops so long that they ''back off'', seemingly thinking that there's more than one of him! And to top it all off, ''he survives''! (Though the same happens when you choose any of the other competent gunmen, including Packie McReary.)