History Characters / SaintsRowThePlayerCharacter

[[center: [-[[Characters/SaintsRow Main Character Index]] | '''The Player Character''' | [[Characters/SaintsRowTheThirdStreetSaints The Third Street Saints]] | [[Characters/SaintsRowSaintsRowGangs Saints Row Gangs]] | [[Characters/SaintsRowSaintsRow2Gangs Saints Row 2 Gangs]] | [[Characters/SaintsRowUltorCorporation Ultor Corporation]] | [[Characters/SaintsRowSaintsRowTheThirdGangs Saints Row: The Third Gangs]] | [[Characters/SaintsRowSTAG STAG]] | [[Characters/SaintsRowZinEmpire Zin Empire]] | [[Characters/SaintsRowLegionsOfHell Legions Of Hell]] | [[Characters/SaintsRowOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/AgentsOfMayhem Agents of Mayhem]]]]-]

* ActionPolitician: Becomes the President of the United States after saving Washington D.C. from a nuke launched by Cyrus Temple in the first mission. When Zinyak launches an AlienInvasion, he is willing to fight off the Zin, and then confronts Zinyak himself.

* AttentionWhore: Signed him/herself on a pole-dancing contest solely for the spotlight

* BenevolentBoss: Despite being a [[TheSociopath Sociopath]], Boss is very protective and fair to subordinates so long as they stay loyal.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Even their crew points out that they are ridiculous what with all the fashionista sense, wacky hijinks, and problem catching up with technology, they are also a hardened killer who know about gang warfare tactics.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The Boss is supposed to be a normal human, but in Saints Row 2 is able to rip a payphone out of the ground with his/her bare hands.
* ChickMagnet: Slightly, Apart from ShipTease with Lin and Shaundi, in 2 they also effortlessly picks up a girl working the bar (who they uses as a shield when gunfire breaks out) and hooks up with random girls, have moments which Jenny Jaros in 3, and they can romance anyone in 4.
* CombatPragmatist: No matter the danger or absurdity of the situation, the Boss ''will find a way to win''. In addition to taking hostages, false surrenders, and having truly ludicrous proficiency with improvised weapons (fire hydrants, giant purple dildos, bricks, etc.), Boss is a master of psychological warfare. The Boss is perfectly willing to target loved ones, use humiliation tactics like winning a televised wrestling match against an enemy, or making demoralizing public media declarations.

*** BlowYouAway: The Boss' Super Sprint when upgraded creates a tornado that destroys whatever is unfortunate enough to cross the Boss' path
*** DeflectorShields: When sprinting, the Boss manifests a "Dash Shield" that blocks and deflects all incoming damage

*** MeteorMove: When Super Jump is sufficiently upgraded, the Boss will gain an attack called DeathFromAbove, which is basically them pausing at the apex of the jump and hurling themselves toward a targeted section of the ground with the force of a small nuke

** MindOverMatter: The Boss gains Telekinesis to lift enemies, vehicles, or other large objects and toss them into the stratosphere with just a thought; when upgraded, Telekinesis can also be used to [[ShockAndAwe electrocute enemies]], turn them into bombs, or [[LifeDrain drain their health or money]].
** ShockwaveStomp: The Boss can Stomp on the ground hard enough to send enemies flying; when upgraded, this can also be used to [[GravityMaster reverse gravity to suspend opponents in the air and trap them in stasis]]; [[SizeShifter shrink enemies]]; make them explode as they fly into the air; or just rain money from the sky and distract enemies long enough for the Boss to kill them.
** WalkingWasteland: The Buff power allows the Boss to set people on fire, freeze them solid, electrocute them, blow them up, or turn them into gold just by standing near them or shooting them, while the Sprint Tornado power allows you to destroy whole streets just by running up and down them.
* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Finished most of the gang leaders in the series like this. [[spoiler: Benjamin King briefly allies himself with the Saints after being betrayed by Warren and forced out of the Vice Kings in the first game, then gets PutOnABus until ''IV'', Matt Miller in ''The Third'' bribes the Boss into allowing him to pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere instead.]]
* CulturedBadass: Supporting the idea that the Boss' BookDumb aspects are mere ObfuscatingStupidity, they call themselves a "Puckish Rogue" in ''Saints Row IV'' (referring to Puck in Shakespeare's ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''), and are repeatedly mentioned to be fans of Creator/JaneAusten (on top of the Creator/TroyBaker Boss voice confessing that he read Literature/JaneEyre 13 times near the end of ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'').

* DeadpanSnarker: Even in the first game where he barely talks.

* {{Determinator}}: Might as well be a walking-talking death machine. Even when stoned, the Boss can still fight off enemies ''en masse''.
* DevilInPlainSight: Given the impossibility of keeping the Boss dead or in jail.

** Here's something well hidden. Call up a homie then when they arrive dismiss them. They will get in their vehicle and take off. You can jump in the passenger seat and now Boss will give them crap over their driving. It's best to have a load of flashbangs to freak out your homie and any driver\passengers to encourage accidents.

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

** Again in the third game. Murder, theft, human trafficking, insurance fraud, and wanton destruction are all fine. Hypercommercialisation, on the other hand, is something the Boss starts having doubts about. This may or may not stick depending on the ending chosen.

** Also in the third game, Boss doesn't like the way the PrimaDonnaDirector of the movie (that they happen to be starring in) treats the co-star actress, and quickly begins trying to screw with him in an effort to get him to stop. This is even though the director does nothing but praise whatever Boss does. They also try to get the poor girl to stand up for herself so he won't pick on her so much.
** In ''The Trouble With Clones'' Boss becomes kind of heroic, fighting off an army division that's attacking Pierce and [[spoiler: Johnny Tag]], even showing remorse for the Saints [[spoiler: failing Gat]].

* EveryManHasHisPrice: The moral system in the third game isn't based on good or evil but if the Boss would accept a bribe over mayhem. The game starts with Johnny expressing that they have gone soft since becoming a franchise which the Boss replies that franchise gives them a lot of money. By the fourth game he dropped the gangster life and used his P.R to become president instead.
* AFatherToHisMen: Arguably their best quality. So long as you remain loyal them, they'll be sure to repay the favor or, at worst, make sure to honor your sacrifice.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Make no mistake, the Boss has a sadistic streak underneath that "puckish rogue" persona. Best shown is in the second game where they are flirting with a bar maid but the moment a shooting starts they use her as a human shield and burn her body to distract the attacker. Even after they mellow out in the later installments, they still have no problem beating people up or killing innocents.
* ForTheEvulz: By the time of the second game, Boss made it clear that liberating the city for peace wasn't a priority anymore. The final lines of ''Saints Row 2'' confirm this. "This is our city [now], we do whatever the fuck we want." Downplayed somewhat in later games as fame and money is sexier to them than rampant murder.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The first game begins with the Playa just walking down a street before being caught in a gang fight and co-opted into the Saints. Needless to say, Boss takes to the lifestyle like a duck to water.
** With the Boss' election as President of the US in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', they may very well have become the full-fledged champion of this trope. [[spoiler:And then the same person [[UpToEleven becomes]] the President[=/=]GodEmperor for Life of the Universe after taking over the Zin Empire, as shown in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell''.]]
* GarbageWrestler: The only way the Boss was able to fight Killbane in Murderbrawl.

* HeelFaceTurn: Of sorts. The SignatureSong in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' were DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster and VillainSong in tone. Two of the signature tracks in the fourth game are positively heroic and play when Boss commits positively heroic deeds, and even if they do make one strange President, there's no question Boss is a lot better than before.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Inverted, the Boss starts ''Saints Row 2'' as a vengeful gangbanger out for power and revenge. By the time ''Saints Row IV'' happens, the Saints are acknowledged as the closest thing Boss has to a family, and goes so far as to save America from a nuclear strike and fight an alien invasion. Still a jerkass, though.
* HopelessWithTech: While it's apparent that the Boss is not tech-savvy, the extent of this is unclear. They can use cell phones, [=ATMs=], radios and drone controls just fine and basic functionality of laptops appears to be a non-issue, but anything else seems to be beyond their capabilities. Keith David claims that the Boss couldn't hook up a VCR, but it's unknown if there is any truth to this or if it's just a remark at their expense.
* HypocriticalHumor: After escaping the 50's simulation in ''Saints Row IV'', the Boss complains to Kinzie that the clothes they are wearing are horrible. Much later, after saving Kinzie from the same simulation, the Boss makes fun about the clothes that Kinzie was wearing in this simulation. It is especially hypocritical if you play a female Boss, because in her version of the 50's simulation, she is herself wearing a PaletteSwap of the poodle skirt.
* ImplacableMan: Both in and out of gameplay, assuming you do enough diversions. Blowing up the Boss just gets them pissed off, and in the second game, the full complement of perks means that the Boss can jump out of a plane, get hit by three exploding trucks [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]], and take a point-blank shotgun blast to the face without going down.
** "The Third" turns this UpToEleven once you get around max respect level, with several upgrades making them ''immune'' to each type of damage. It can get to the point where Boss can only be harmed by melee attackers.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Starts to have this attitude in the second game as they do things for their own benefit and personal reasons. It levels out somewhat in third game, but by the fourth game, the Boss' selfish attitude rises to a new level; the game opens with the Boss, the President of the United States, suffering a massive PR disaster since they proposed that the phrase "One nation under me" should replace "One nation under God". When helping Asha escape from her personal nightmare, the Boss keeps thinking that by having an evil twin in Asha's nightmare, it's about the Boss overall. CID also questions why the Boss keeps giving Pierce no respect at all, despite how Pierce always stayed loyal and gave ideas to help the Boss (The Boss claims they rag Pierce in good fun rather than malicious intent). It isn't until the Boss [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech gets called out for their selfish attitude and taking advantage of others]] by someone who had stayed loyal to them that the Boss starts to think about others for a change.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the third game, shows sincere affection and concern for their allies. Of course, the degree to which the gold shows in gameplay is [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential dependent on the player.]]
** Largely Subverted in ''IV'', where the Boss is [[TookALevelInKindness much more consistently pleasant to others]] than they've ever been before. It also helps that everything is in a simulation and they're technically not committing any crimes at all.
* KickTheDog: Many view killing Jessica by locking her in a car and having her boyfriend unknowingly run her over at a monster truck rally as this, even though [[BitchInSheepsClothing she was the one that ordered Carlos to be chained to a truck and dragged to near death]], forcing the boss to MercyKill him.They also cripple Matt's hand with fireworks. Matt had nothing to do with The Brotherhood other than doing their tattoos and being close friends with Maero.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: The Boss is fond of doing this, starting from the second game. They helped Gat burying Shogo alive and throw a drug crate at a junkie's wound after the junkie told them what they want.
* LargeAndInCharge: In Saints Row 2, The Boss is taller than almost every other person in the game by default; the only person taller is Maero. Gets really noticeable if you put Boss in heels as well. Less noticeable in ''Saints Row The Third'', as the other Saint's are now almost the same height, but according to their mugshot, they are 6ft2 (1,88m) tall, even the female protagonist.

''([[NoNameGiven Playa]] approaches Jack's table and [[ExactWords reaches for the money Jack had just been counting)]]''\\

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Can potentially be invoked by the player on the [[GoldenEnding Save Shaundi]] ending. [[spoiler:Yes, the Boss may still be a crime lord who isn't above drugs, robbery and sexual slavery, but this ending shows [[AFatherToHisMen their best qualities]] while [[AccidentalHero unintentionally saving a prized monument of Steelport.]] Meanwhile, the STAG Initiative destroyed half of the city, killed hundreds of civilians, and were part of a giant FalseFlagOperation / BatmanGambit to play on the Boss' selfishness in order to get the confirmation to wipe them out. Monica Hughes sums it up really nicely:]]

'''The President''': Now the statue has a name?\\

'''The President''': Nobody tells me anything!

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Obviously none of the Boss' voice actors are sadistic murderers in RealLife.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Did this to Carlos after the Brotherhood mortally wounded and disfigured him]].
* NoNameGiven: Usually just referred to as the Boss.

* NoPartyGiven: As President, their political leanings are never discussed, though considering that they run the nation like they run their gang they're essentially a Kleptocrat.

* OneManArmy: Boss is a striding engine of destruction. You can run, but you'll just die trying.

'''Boss:''' Doesn't seem to be helping.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: But of course. Most of the time, they're referred to as "Boss" and sometimes "Player".
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Cockney voice (Male 1) in "Saints Row 2" was particularly guilty of this, especially because the cutscene dialogue barely changes from one voice to another, which leads the Boss spouting sentences that no English person would ever use. In "Saints Row: The Third" and "IV", ''[[Creator/RobinAtkinDownes Male 3]]'' takes over as the Cockney voice. The newer voice actor is far more authentic, especially since more English slang words and phrases are inserted in place of Americanisms and any fixed dialogue in cutscenes is written to fit around all the voice characters.
** The fourth game has this happen deliberately for some of the voice sets during the 1950s simulation early in the game: the Boss will switch to a much more refined, upper-class version of their accent while the illusion holds, preserving the Boss's appearance as a suitably refined sort on a Leave it to Beaver type sitcom. As the Boss fights back and the illusion breaks down, their real accent returns.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: In ''Saints Row IV'', they become POTUS. They are a combination of various tropes ranging from President Action to President Lunatic, but since they're also a major criminal would also be PresidentEvil.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The Ronin and Brotherhood missions especially consist of increasingly bloody games of tit-for-tat between the Boss and whoever's stupid enough to try and hurt the other Saints. The Boss' ''main'' motivation for total war against the world's largest criminal syndicate was due to the death of ''one'' Saint.
** ''Especially'' present in the Brotherhood questline. At first the Saints were attacking the gang itself as a whole, i. e. going after their resources, to challenge their power. [[spoiler:That all changed when the Boss contaminated Maero's tattoo ink and disfigured him, making it [[ItsPersonal personal]] for Jessica, Maero's girlfriend. In revenge, she had Carlos tortured to near death, and in revenge for ''that'' the Boss set Maero up to kill Jessica by accident...and it pretty much goes downhill from there.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: By the end of ''Saints Row: The Third'', the Boss is able to blow up a skyscraper, sink an aircraft carrier, take on a well-armed paramilitary group, bring down a [[AirborneAircraftCarrier flying warship]], [[spoiler: set up a city state]], aside from killing a truly ungodly number of people. And in the fourth game they get superpowers...

** In the "Gangstas In Space" DLC, Boss is extremely nice to the actress they have to work with. They coach her throughout the DLC to stand up for herself and not take shit from the JerkAss director who insults and belittles her at every chance he gets. Soon, they even become friends and she can be called as a homie upon completion of the last mission. [[spoiler:By the end, Boss may have rubbed off on her a bit more than they intended...]]

** If you think about everything Boss does over the quadrilogy, there's a lot they don't have to do to be nice, but does so anyway. Help out those who they're friends with, befriends a number of allies, lots of little and not so little strokes of the pooch throughout the four games.
** According to Keith, the Boss holds Donnie Wong in higher regard than Maero. Which is touching in a way, considering all they ever did was bully the poor guy.

** In ''IV'', [[NoRespectGuy Pierce's]] loyalty mission involves the Boss finally letting him do one of his [[ComplexityAddiction needlessly complicated plans]] for once. They even refer to Pierce as "Boss" throughout.
* ProtagonistWithoutAPast: In the first game, he's just an ordinary schmuck who happens to walk right into a gang war, without any backstory. Was he a criminal beforehand, or a law-abiding citizen seduced by the criminal lifestyle? We don't find out. However, along with having ''way'' more dialogue, we get some small tidbits of info. For example, they mention coming to a bordello since they were a teenager, one of the male voices in the third game implies he's been killing people from a young age, and one of the female voices reveals that her father loved guns and told her that you could never have enough. Plus, the events of the first game ''are'' your protagonist's past now. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''IV'' when the Boss says flat out that no one cares who they were before they joined the Saints.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Slighting them is ''not'' a good idea; the easiest way to the top of their shit-list is by fucking with their crew, but other ways you can sign yourself up for Death by Boss include offering them a crappy deal and talking down to them, trying to betray them to the cops, or by [[BerserkButton butchering their favorite Biz Markie song.]] Those who happen to catch their ire soon find everything they know, love, and care about burning down around them just before the Boss themselves delivers the killing blow.

* SilentBob: In the first game, the Boss only has four spoken lines, in the sequel, they speak just as much as any other character. This is also {{lampshaded}} in the second game.

'''Boss''': Surprised, Aisha?\\

'''Boss''': Pick one.

'''Boss''': [[ImStandingRightHere What was that?]]\\

* StalkerWithACrush: Female 2 in the third game makes no effort to hide this from Pierce: Among other things, she considers installing cameras in his room and buying him a sex machine, offers to be his dominatrix, and eventually admits that she wants to make love to him in front of a live studio audience.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Oh so much in the second game. The voice options are absolute gold.

* TheCaptain: After the first incarnation of the Saints.
* TheSociopath: Cares for lieutenants, but makes it clear that they're in the gang scene for the perks and power. Has nothing but contempt for [[spoiler:Julius]]'s attempt to be a "killer with a conscience," with no loyalty to his supposed crew.

'''Playa:''' Jesus Christ, you sound like a pussy!\\

* TrainingFromHell: Angel submitted them to one where they had to drive with a tiger next to them to master their fear. The boss wasn't too pleased.
* TranquilFury: When the Boss get their revenge on the people who killed some of their teammates. They are calm, but what they do to the Brotherhood or to Killbane (if they gets their ends on him) is especially gruesome and mean-spirited.
-->'''[[spoiler: Evil Boss]]''': That so-called puckish rogue didn't even shed a tear when his best friend's girl was beheaded in front of him!\\
'''Boss''': [[BerserkButton Is that what you think?]]

** ''Definitely'' with Gat. The Boss leaps into action as soon as they learn about his murder trial in ''Saints Row 2'', and in ''The Trouble with Clones'' in ''Saints Row: The Third''. There's no question the Saints are going to go help [[spoiler: Johnny Tag, even though he's a flawed clone of Gat and not actually him]], and in ''Saints Row IV'', as soon as there's even a whiff of a chance that Gat is bouncing around inside the Zin Matrix, the Boss is demanding to go after him. So much so in fact, the Boss nearly beats [[spoiler:Matt]] to a pulp just for ''questioning'' whether this was a good idea.
** All in all, one thing you should ''never'' do to the boss is fuck with their crew. It doesn't matter how much belittlement, abuse, humiliation, and occasional violence they dish out on their lieutenants, if you so much as touch a single hair on their head, the Boss will be coming at you like a maelstrom of violence and fury that will leave you as a smear on the pavement and remind everyone that, yeah, they're an ass at times, but their crew is ''everything'' to them.
* TheUnfettered: Can become this if you choose the kill Killbane ending, as it cements that the Boss prefers killing their enemies over saving their friends and will lead them to turn Steelport into their own city state. Otherwise their friends can stop them from going overboard with their project.
* UndyingLoyalty: This is the Boss' most important redeeming quality. If you work for them, and they like you, they will gladly take a bullet for you. If you die, be assured that no matter what happens, your killer is going to pay for it with serious interest.
* UnstoppableRage: Maero bringing up Carlos pisses the Boss enough to overpower the much bigger man and when Matt intervene to save Maero the Boss bashes his head with a brick and throw the brick at his corpse again for good measure.
* VillainProtagonist: Not exactly one of God's best children, being a murderer, drug trafficker, thief, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking possible jaywalker]]. Still, most of the people the Boss kills certainly deserve it.
** Of course, that's in the second game. In the first and third games, the Boss is more of an AntiHero.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In 2. Despite all the atrocities that the Boss commits, random people on the street with occasionally stop to cheer them on, especially for killing the various lieutenants of the other gangs.
* VirtualRealityWarper: In ''IV,'' once Kinzie manages to break the Boss out of the initial MindPrison, the Boss is able to empower themselves with simulation-breaking superpowers against Zinyak's designs.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Can adopt wrestling moves in the second game from the Brotherhood.
** The third game, while doing away with four separate fighting styles, incorporates wrestling moves into the Boss's fighting style by default.

* AbsoluteCleavage: With the female boss' sex appeal set at maximum, and while wearing one of several outfits that become available. The "Elegant Couture" dress provides a textbook example of this trope, even if the Boss is virtually flat-chested.

** Female voice 1, going by the number of movie references, is evidently a film buff. She's basically living out a gangster version of ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'' with the action [[UpToEleven up to a hundred and eleven.]]
* AttentionWhore: Signed him/herself on a poledancing contest solely for the spotlight

* AxCrazy: Regardless of whether they’re [[VideogameCrueltyPotential indiscriminately destroying everything and everyone in their path]] or [[VideogameCaringPotential going out of their way to minimise collateral damage to the civilian populace]], The Boss is extremely cruel, sadistic and brutal to anyone who crosses them. It’s telling that the only other person who comes close to matching their bloodlust is ''Johnny Gat''.

* ClingyJealousGirl: If playing as a Russian woman in ''The Third'', she becomes audibly enraged by Pierce getting her to collect his sex dolls. Makes sense, since Russian boss is besotted with Pierce and would prefer he just had sex with her himself.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Male Voice 2 mentions that he should call his mother more often

* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: The "Russian" voice in "Saints Row: The Third" skews to this. "Is exciting, yes? Like attacking a tiger with a knife!"

* AxCrazy: Regardless of whether they’re [[VideogameCrueltyPotential indiscriminately destroying everything and everyone in their path]] or [[VideogamingCaringPotential going out of their way to minimise collateral damage to the civilian populace]], The Boss is extremely cruel, sadistic and brutal to anyone who crosses them. It’s telling that the only other person who comes close to matching their bloodlust is ''Johnny Gat''.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: From ''[[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird Saints Row: The Third]]'' on, the Protagonist can have red eyes and it can even be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] if you make an albino character.

* LondonGangster: The Boss can be played as this if you pick a Cockney voice.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Cockney voice (Male 1) in "Saints Row 2" was particularly guilty of this, especially because the cutscene dialogue barely changes from one voice to another, which leads the Boss spouting sentences that no English person would ever use. In "Saints Row: The Third" and "IV", ''[[Creator/RowinnAtkinDownes Male 3]]'' takes over as the Cockney voice. The newer voice actor is far more authentic, especially since more English slang words and phrases are inserted in place of Americanisms and any fixed dialogue in cutscenes is written to fit around all the voice characters.

* WalkingWasteland: In ''Saints Row IV'', the Buff power allows the Boss to set people on fire, freeze them solid, or electrocute them just by standing near them, while the Sprint Tornado power allows you to destroy whole streets just by running up and down them.

Male Voice 2: Uncredited (''1''), Kenn Michael (''2'', ''3'', ''IV'' and ''Gat out of Hell'')\\

* {{Adorkable}}: Unusually for a [[AxCrazy mass-murdering sociopath]], [[Creator/LauraBailey Female 1 boss]] shows shades of this in most of the games after ''2'', examples including her aforementioned interests in movies, dancing, art, [[{{Fanboy}} and Burt Reynolds]], and her gleeful, maniacal laughs when she starts learning superpowers in ''IV''.

* AFatherToHisMen: Arguably their best quality. So long as you remain loyal them, they'll be sure to repay the favor or, at worst, make sure to honor your sacrifice.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Can potentially be invoked by the player on the [[GoldenEnding Save Shaundi]] ending. [[spoiler:Yes, the Boss may still be a crime lord who isn't above drugs, robbery and sexual slavery, but this ending shows [[AFatherToHisMen their best qualities]] while [[AccidentalHero unintentionally saving a prized monument of Steelport.]] Meanwhile, the STAG Initiative destroyed half of the city, killed hundreds of civilians, and were part of a giant FalseFlagOperation / BatmanGambit to play on the Boss' selfishness in order to get the confirmation to wipe them out. Monica Hughes sums it up really nicely:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Monica Hughes:''' "[[HeWhoFightsMonsters You]] declared martial law and knocked down half the city. The Saints just saved a treasured monument. Who the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] do you think the public will side with?"]]

* TookALevelInKindness: In ''Saints Row: The Third'', The Boss was noticeably far less sadistic than before even at their worst. in ''Saints Row IV'', The Boss is a very good man, starting from sacrificing themselves to stop the missile and then cares nothing but the safety of their friends. In ''How the Saints Saved Christmas'', The Boss learned about being nice from the Santa Claus himself, and the story ends with him as the NiceGuy.

* HiddenBuxom: Both the third and fourth games in the series have an opening scene before character customization where the Boss is covered head to toe in thick clothing which could believably hide an average-proportioned woman underneath. Or you can give the female Boss F-cups and spend the rest of the game wondering how she managed to squeeze those into the outfit.

%%* AxCrazy

* InexplicablyAwesome: Throughout all the games, we never get anything more than tantalising glimpses into their MysteriousPast, never anything concrete that explains just how some random schmuck remade themselves into the most deadly person on the planet.

* BuxomIsBetter/BiggerIsBetterInBed: With the "sex appeal" slider all the way to the max, your female Boss will have BoobsOfSteel and the male one a GagPenis... Both with a wide variety of tops/pants to make it all the more obvious!