History Characters / GrandTheftAutoVAntagonists

* HatedByAll: Absolutely no one in Franklin neighborhood likes the man. And for a lot of good reasons.

* MuggingThrMonster: Stretch ends up severely pissing off Trevor by attempting to trick Lamar and Franklin into buying a fake brick of cocaine in a deal that Trevor invites himself to, resulting in him listing him as a man that needs eliminating at the end of the game.

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* BullyingADragon: Though he didn't ''intend'' to do this (as he essentially invited himself to the dealing), Stretch ends up severely pissing off Trevor by attempting to trick Lamar and Franklin into buying a fake brick of cocaine, resulting in him listing him as a man that needs eliminating at the end of the game.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the CorruptCorporateExecutive. What kind of person would glibly deceive the public and cheat his employees? An incredibly awful and immature asshole whose wealth and power make him feel he's above any moral obligation. [[spoiler: In the good ending, the protagonists get sick of shitty behavior and kill him. Despite his proclamations of power, none of his associates care when he bites it.]]

A corrupt and influential billionaire, who owns various businesses. He has a private army in the form of the Merryweather Security Consulting firm, and he blames Michael for interfering with his businesses.[[labelnote:Click here to see spoilers]]Late in the story, he tells Franklin to kill Michael.[[/labelnote]]

A [[UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} FIB agent]] who works as Dave Norton's handler. He is also the host of CNT's reality TV show "The Underbelly of Paradise".[[labelnote:Click here to see spoilers]]Later in the story, he asks Franklin to kill Trevor.[[/labelnote]]

A [[BlatantLies "legitimate businessman wrongfully accused of leading a Mexican narcotics gang"]], Michael finds himself owing Madrazo tons of money after he made a hasty mistake. After Michael repays him, Madrazo contacts Michael again to do a "favor" for him.[[labelnote:Click here to see spoilers]]The relationship turns sour again when Madrazo refuses to pay Trevor for his services, and Trevor kidnaps his wife in retribution, forcing Michael and Trevor to hide out for a while.[[/labelnote]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Slips into this as he realizes that he can't negotiate with [[AxCrazy Trevor.]] After being stuffed in the trunk of his car, he tries to offer Trevor money, power and a high position in his company. Trevor's response? [[ShutUpHannibal Insult Devin for thinking that "rational" offers can placate an "Irrational" guy like him]] who just ''really'' wants to kill the bastard.]]

* SinisterShades: He wears shades in his profile picture seen online and on the characters' contact lists, and in the setup scene for "Blitz Play".

* GagPenis: He has a 9-inch-long penis. [[InformedAbility According]] to [[UnreliableNarrator his website, anyway]].

* IWarnedYou: He did warn both Franklin and Lamar that to prevent a war between the Families and the Ballas, he may well have to offer Franklin and Lamar up as sacrificial lambs. He expects them to go along with it without question; Franklin, of course, will have none of it, and Lamar, ever the optimist, simply dismissed the possibility of it coming to that.

* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed. [[spoiler:While he's sufficiently intimidated by Trevor to stop antagonizing the protagonists, he's still with his wife and in charge of his criminal empire, except being minus one ear, and in mortal terror of Trevor Philips for the rest of his life. So maybe he didn't get COMPLETELY off the hook.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He had every reason to want Michael dead for tearing down a house worth 2.5 million dollars. However, when Michael explains that it was a mistake, Martin becomes more understanding and just lets Michael know what he expects to be paid. Upon payment, he instead compliments Michael for staying true to his word and if anything, the two would've had a professional, if not cordial, relationship had [[spoiler:Trevor not kidnapped his wife over a stiffed paycheck]]. He's very prompt in paying the Online Protagonist though, and only becomes irate with him/her if you ignore the tasks he sends you.

* BullyingADragon: Though he didn't ''intend'' to do this (as he essentially invited himself to the dealing), Stretch ends up severely pissing off Trevor by attemptiing to trick Lamar and Franklin into buying a fake brick of cocaine, resulting in him listing him as a man that needs eliminating at the end of the game.

-->'''Trevor:''' [[spoiler:SHOTGUN! I've wanted to ice that fucker since the moment I met him!]]

%%* TheDragon: To Weston.

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:It's probably not a good idea to run in front of an active plane turbine. It's also a wonder she got that far, what with her driving extremely fast and recklessly around ''moving jumbo jets'', getting at least a few members of her police escort killed. It's no surprise that said cops went from trying to escort her to trying to arrest her. Additionally, the only reason she died in the first place was she was trying to escape from Micheal [[WrongAssumption under the assumption that he was coming to kill her]] instead of just taking back the film reel she stole.]]

-->'''Michael:''' [[LampshadeHanging Aw, that was nasty! And needless...]]

** If Franklin [[spoiler:sides with him in the ending]], he will offer no reward except getting [[spoiler:Weston]] to stop chasing the protagonists. When Franklin tries politely to press the issue, Haines tells him under no uncertain terms to get lost and expect no more favor from him.

* UngratefulBastard: He verbally abuses Norton, Michael, Franklin, and the rest of his underlings no matter how much they risk to help him (with no reward). Eventually culminates in trying to [[spoiler:kill Norton and Michael and frame them for the crimes he masterminded.]]

!Single-Player
!!Main Villains

!!Supporting Villains

!Online
[[folder:The Doomsday Heist's Villain ('''Spoilers Unmarked!''')]]
!!Avon Hertz
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A billionaire who made his money in the tech industry, he recruits the online protagonist alongside Lester, Agent 14 and Agent Rackman to help save San Andreas from an upcoming terror attack and prevent a regional war from taking place. He is the main villain of ''The Doomsday Heist'' update.
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* AxCrazy: Easily one of the '''most''' deranged antagonists of the entire franchise. The fact that his plan involves ''committing large-scale genocide towards humanity'' cements this. The worst part is that he wants to do it willingly, with clear jovial glee.
* BigBad: Of ''The Doomsday Heist'', being the mastermind behind the nuclear war.
* BrickJoke: He constantly claims that his hair is completely natural. After he's blown out of the sky by an armed jetpack, Lester tells the Online Protagonist that all the forensics team could find of him were apparently his hair plugs.
* CloneArmy: Unleashes one after revealing his true intentions.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He casually admits being good friends with Don Percival, having used Merryweather's services to help his business in developing economies since they know "who to bribe and who to kill".
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: He wants to hack the USA's nuclear arsenal to trigger global thermonuclear war to commit planetary genocide so he can create a society where everything is privatized and the rich rule over the "peasants" with no hope for anyone to change their position in society. Unlike most cases, he describes this world without how he plans to get there ''before'' he's revealed as the BigBad. He also sees it as a {{Utopia}}.
* EvilWearsBlack: Wears loads of black, and is an omnicidal villain.
* FauxAffablyEvil: At first he seems polite and likable, if a bit full of himself. It's nothing but a mask-his true self is anything but likable.
* HatedByAll: Downplayed variant. With the exception of Cliffford, nobody likes Avon.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He's blown to pieces by the same team of criminals he double-crossed, using some of his own jetpacks to pursue him and deal the killing blow.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Once Cliffford makes it clear that he wants to kill Avon himself, one would think he'd realize that his A.I. project was a mistake. Instead he has a VillainousBreakdown over Cliffford's "death" and spends the last few minutes of his life insulting the protagonists for doing the deed and trying to flee to ensure Cliffford can be restored from backup data.
* MeaningfulName: His last name Hertz is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second. It is used not only for sound but also electricity, and considering the fact that he drives a Coil, the franchise's equivalent to the all-electric Tesla vehicles.
* MesACrowd: Has a personal army at hand, made up entirely of clones of himself.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of Elon Musk. Not only is the name similar but Avon also drives a Coil, the GTA-verse's Tesla equivalent. Avon's [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial constant statements about the natural status of his hair]] also bring to mind Musk's unexplained restoration of his hairline.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: The whole point of having the protagonists root out Bogdan was so he can gain access to the United States defense grid and have Cliffford hack it.
* OmnicidalManiac: Unlike previous villains in the franchise, Avon and Cliffford try to ''commit genocide on the human race''.
* OutsideContextProblem: Once his true motives are revealed, he (and by extension Cliffford) turns out to be unlike any other GTA villain in the franchise. While there are a number of them that are as rich as him, none of them had the ambition or the audacity to commit genocide on the entire human race.
* PsychoPink: He's got a pink shirt, and he's a BigBad.
* TheSociopath: Classically so. Avon has the pride, egotism, [[OmnicidalManiac pathologically violent]] behavior, and a chameleon-like personality.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He's ''trying'' to appear charismatic and talented enough to justify his ego, but he's just a tool with more money than brainpower.
* StrawmanPolitical: He is constantly dismissing the IAA as "public sector idiots" and hopes that one day the U.S. will become a fully PrivatelyOwnedSociety. He also happily admits that the automation revolution he and Cliffford are bringing will reduce even white-collar professionals like doctors or lawyers to starving "peasants" banging on the walls of the fortresses of rich people like him.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: San Andreas in ''Online'' is far from ideal and is full of crime and corruption, but still has a pretty good and breathtaking surface. Avon Hertz? Definitely the most-vile villain in the entire franchise with little competition other than [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Donald Love]] from the ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII III]]'' [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity era]].
* VilerNewVillain: Most ''GTA'' villains are shady businessmen, corrupt authority figures, crime lords, or ambitious gangsters. Hertz one-ups every single one of them by being an OmnicidalManiac whose EvilPlan far overshadows everyone else's in terms of sheer scope.
* VillainousBreakdown: Suffers one once the online protagonist knocks Cliffford offline and aborts the nuke launch.
* WalkingSpoiler: As his villainy and role in ''The Doomsday Heist'' is secret, he qualifies.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After the Online Protagonists end up giving him the ability to cause an actual doomsday, he sics his clone army after them.
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[[folder:The Doomsday Heist's Secondary Villain ('''Spoilers Unmarked!''')]]
!!Cliffford
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A self-aware A.I. program created by Avon. He's the secondary vilain of ''The Doomsday Heist''.
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* BlandNameProduct: Of IBM's Watson, with some elements of A.I. assistants like Amazon Alexa.
* TheDragon: To Avon Hertz, his creator.
* DragonAscendant: Becomes this during the finale of Act III as the online protagonist storms the bunker within Mt Chiliad. Cliffford asserts himself over Avon as he tries to pull a WeCanRuleTogether with the protagonists during a VillainousBreakdown. Cliffford remains determined to destroy humanity, revealing he wants Avon dead too.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all he's done, he does care about Avon, even if he tried to kill him.
* AGodAmI: Views himself as this once he has control of the government's nuclear missiles and outright says it word for word as he is destroyed by the online protagonist via KillSat.
* HatedByAll: Everyone considers Cliffford to be a dick. Even Avon admits that he was a dick once he's killed!
* {{Jerkass}}: Everyone admits he's a dick.
* JobStealingRobot: Both Avon and Cliffford itself boast that the latter will be able to take over most jobs and leave most of the population destitute.
* KilledOffForReal: Gets his mobile cloud servers destroyed by the online protagonist with a KillSat and his original code is destroyed alongside Avon by a missile as he flees from the bunker.
* LaughablyEvil: For all he's done, he's hilarious due to constantly asking Avon childish questions.
* MeatSackRobot: {{Discussed}}: He gloats to the Online Protagonists during the final mission of Act III about his plan to obtain the means to grow a real brain and use it as his own.
* MechaMooks: Has an entire army of "Juggernauts" that are humanoid robots under his control that he uses on the online protagonist during Act III.
* MyNaymeIs: Cliffford is spelled with three F's rather than the normal two.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In the finale of Act III, Cliffford claims to hack a door by keeping it shut. Lester manages to get Cliffford to open said door through SocialEngineering, allowing the players access to Avon's labs.
* OutsideContextProblem: Stands out in the world of GTA by being a sapient A.I.. Previous games had elements of sci-fi in them, but they were not part of the main plot like Cliffford is nor were they this explicit.
* WalkingSpoiler: His actual purpose and motives are big {{spoiler}}s for ''The Doomsday Heist''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Avery Duggan]]
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A Texan petrochemical magnate who loaned the Triads the money to finish construction of the Diamond Casino and Resort. Duggan wants to take over the casino, demolish it, and redevelop the site by any means necessary. He's the main villain of ''The Diamond Casino and Resort''.
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* BigBad: Of the ''Diamond Casino and Resort'' mission arc.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Avery is a wealthy investor who has businesses in San Andreas. He is also willing to use underhanded tactics [[spoiler:such as paying people to riot at the Diamond Casino]].
* {{Eagleland}}: Avery falls under this as a type 2. He made his wealth from oil, is an [[CorruptCorporateExecutive investor not shy of using subterfuge to achieve his goal]], and also judges cultures solely based on food.
* {{Expy}}: In-series, he is one to [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Avery Carrington]]. Both are ruthless Texan businessmen who use shady tactics to drive down property values. [[spoiler:And [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories much like Carrington]], Duggan is assassinated by the protagonist on orders from his protege.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: When he introduces himself to Tao and company, he starts off polite. However, after dismissing Thornton and Agatha, he shows his true cutthroat intentions to Tao.
-->'''Avery:''' ''(to Tao Cheng)'' Now, when I return, we will continue this conversation as gentlemen. On second thought, I ain't a gentleman. ''(to his goons)'' Shoot the bastards!
* LoanShark: He loaned the Triads the money to build the Diamond Resort and Casino. However, instead of just recovering the money, he wants to drive down the casino's value to acquire it for dirt cheap, demolish it, and redevelop the site for his own means.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Avery comes off as misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist. He's resentful toward Agatha's status as the casino manager, and tells Tao that he doesn't care about "how many ninjas he's got up his sleeve".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:El Rubio]]
!!Juan "El Rubio" Strickler
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-->'''Voiced by:''' [[https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJLg42qjdu8/?hl=en Joseph Melendez]]

The world's most notorious drug trafficker, and owner of the private Caribbean island, Cayo Perico. He's the main villain of ''The Cayo Perico Heist''.
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* BadBoss: He casually feeds one of his underlings to his pet ''panther''. It's also mentioned that he shoots suspected traitors every time he gets robbed, and he has a torture cage on his island, which Pavel implies has been used recently.
* BigBad: Of the Cayo Perico arc.
* ButNotTooForeign: He is Colombian, but has a German grandfather and could easily pass as completely Caucasian, especially with his blonde hair.
* CoolGuns: The Perico Pistol, a golden Luger that can be stolen from his office if the key is stolen from one of his guards found throughout Los Santos.
* CanonWelding: It could be a simple EasterEgg, but in his compound, you can find a picture of his German grandfather, that being Andreas of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2''.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He feeds one of his underlings, Gustavo, to a panther simply for "embarrassing" him in front of his guests.
* {{Expy}}: His status as a notorious drug lord who is infamous for his AxCrazy tendencies might evoke comparisons to [[Film/Scarface1983 Tony Montana]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: He comes across as friendly as a powerful kingpin could possibly be, but not much later, he's threatening ''Scott Storch'' of all people and feeding one of his employees to a panther.
* FunctionalAddict: Both he and his henchmen are confirmed by dialogue from both the PA system and Pavel that they're not above sampling their own products, but as the Online Protagonist finds out, it doesn't make them any less of an obstacle to deal with while ransacking Cayo Perico.
* LatinoIsBrown: Averted. He is blonde (which is where his alias comes from), light-skinned, and he mentions having a German grandfather.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's pretty blatantly inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Lehder Carlos Lehder]], a drug lord who similarly owned his own private island home to wild parties and his drug operation ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%27s_Cay Norman's Cay]]), also sharing German ancestry.
* RedBaron: "El Rubio", which is Spanish for "The Blonde".
* SmugSnake: He's fairly confident in hunting down the protagonist ''after'' they've stolen his treasure.
* TheParanoiac: He becomes this after the Online Protagonist completes the heist several times. His goons note that he'll spend days in his panic room after robberies and he himself regularly voices his paranoia about the Online Protagonist's presence over the loudspeakers.
-->'''El Rubio:''' Paranoid? Hohoho, you motherfuckers... How many times have we been robbed? Hmm? Who's paranoid now?
* TheUnfought: He's built up as being the BigBad of the heist but isn't fought in it and, really, has no involvement at all beyond his introduction. The closest the player gets to engaging El Rubio is trying to avoid getting shot by him from his helicopter after stealing the primary target. This is presumably intentional on the Online Protagonist's part, as killing El Rubio would mean no more treasures to steal from Cayo Perico.
* UnexplainedRecovery: The player can use sticky bombs to destroy his helicopter while he's on it, and he'll be no worse off afterwards.
* VillainousBreakdown: After the player grabs what they came for the first time, he drops his usual FauxAffablyEvil self and angrily demands that their guards find and kill them. When the Online Protagonist eventually escapes, Pavel reveals that Strickler had a drug-fuelled mental breakdown afterwards in his panic room, complete with randomly shooting any suspected traitors or feeding them to the panther. By the time the player comes back to rob him a few more times, he's become downright deranged, his announcements consisting mostly of paranoid ramblings and graphic death threats to his men and the player alike.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Johnny Guns]]
!!Jonathan "Johnny Guns" Henderson
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[=WesLos=] Records' executive producer. He's had a beef with Dr. Dre ever since the '90s which has come to a head once he steals Dre's car and phone full of unreleased music while the latter tried attending a party in Cayo Perico.
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%%zce* BigBad: Of the Contract arc.
* DirtyCoward: He becomes rather frightened and pleaful when he meets Dr. Dre face-to-face, despite previously sending hitmen to try and kill him.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses, and is a thoroughly unpleasant person.
* GolfClubbing: [[spoiler:He gets an undignified beatdown from Dre with one after telling him to "take [his] ass back to the golf course!"]]
* NoTrueScotsman: He insinuates that Dre has gone soft ever since he left the hood and became an entrepreneur. [[spoiler:This comes back to bite him in the ass once Dre, Franklin, and the Online Protagonist manage to unite the Families and Ballas to sabotage and corner him, earning him a humiliating beatdown with a golf club, the very thing Johnny mocked Dre for.]]
* UncertainDoom: The outcome of his beating by Dre is not shown.
[[/folder]]

* ArchEnemy: To Trevor. [[spoiler:Ironically, to avoid Trevor getting fingered as a known associate, Franklin is the one to ultimately do him in.]]

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:An optional objective in "The Third Way" is to kill Stretch with a melee attack.]]

* {{Trumplica}}: Devin Weston has a lot in common with American politician, media personality, businessman, and former U.S. President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump before 2016. Like Trump, Weston is an [[EccentricMillionaire eccentric billionaire]], [[MillionairePlayboy playboy]], and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive business tycoon]] with a coarse and abrasive personality, is quite a controversial figure even among his associates, and constantly boasting about his accomplishments and what he is. Similarly, Devin Weston's political position as a "pseudo-liberal" (according to Lester) and criminal connections largely parallel Trump's Democratic past and the numerous allegations he has faced over the years pointing to [[WhiteCollarCrime white-collar crimes]] and organized crime connections. This makes sense with the timeline of the game, considering that GTA V takes place in 2013, ''three years before'' the rise of Trump in the GOP and the ballistic political climate that would linger into the early 2020s.

* {{Trumplica}}: Devin Weston has a lot in common with American politician, media personality, businessman, and former U.S. President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump before 2016. Like Trump, Weston is an influential billionaire, [[MillionairePlayboy playboy]], and business tycoon with a coarse and abrasive personality, is quite a controversial figure even among his associates, and constantly boasting about his accomplishments and what he is. Similarly, Devin Weston's political position as a "pseudo-liberal" (according to Lester) and criminal connections largely parallel Trump's Democratic past and the numerous allegations he has faced over the years pointing to [[WhiteCollarCrime white-collar crimes]] and organized crime connections. This makes sense with the timeline of the game, considering that GTA V takes place in 2013, ''three years before'' the rise of Trump in the GOP and the ballistic political climate that would linger into the early 2020s.

* {{Trumplica}}: Devin Weston has a lot in common with American politician, media personality, businessman, and former U.S. President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump before 2016. Like Trump, Weston is an influential billionaire, [[MillionairePlayboy playboy]], and business tycoon with a gruff and abrasive personality, is quite a controversial figure even among his associates, and constantly boasting about his accomplishments and what he is. Similarly, Devin Weston's political position as a "pseudo-liberal" (according to Lester) and criminal connections largely parallel Trump's Democratic past and the numerous allegations he has faced over the years pointing to [[WhiteCollarCrime white-collar crimes]] and organized crime connections. This makes sense with the timeline of the game, considering that GTA V takes place in 2013, ''three years before'' the rise of Trump in the GOP and the ballistic political climate that would linger into the early 2020s.

* TheSociopath: Not as obvious as Steve Haines, but he does have quite a few antisocial behavior: superficial charm, scamming employees without a hint of remorse, and uncontrollable rage when things don't go his way. He also lacks any meaningful relationship with anyone: [[spoiler:He isn't in mourning when Molly dies, he refers to Steve as a clown he can have fired at random, and his ostensible business partner Don Percival isn't at all upset when Devin bites it.]]