History Characters / SaintsRowThePlayerCharacter

%% * TheMeanBrit: Male Voice 1 in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' (courtesy of Charles Shaughnessy) and male voice 3 in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' (courtesy of Creator/RobinAtkinDownes).

%% * CorruptHick: Female Voice 3 in ''IV''.

* {{Yandere}}: The Russian Female voice in ''3'' has a...thing for Pierce. As in a "wants to put government-grade surveillance equipment in his bedroom and anonymously deliver him a sex machine" thing. She's also as violent and sociopathic as the rest of the Boss versions and eventually openly admits to wanting to make love to him in front of a live studio audience.* YourSizeMayVary: In ''1'', they're of average height, in ''2'', they are a head height taller than almost every character. In ''The Third'' and ''IV'', they are about the same height as ''2'' (still taller than [=NPCs=]), but the other Saints have increased in size to match.

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* NinetiesAntiHero: The Boss starts to develop into this in ''The Third''.

* ComboPlatterPowers: In ''IV'', The Boss gains an impressive array of superpowers inside the Simulation. They include...
** SuperSpeed: The Boss has "Super Sprint" that allows them to run faster than any vehicle; a fully upgraded Super Sprint allows them to [[WalkOnWater run across water]] and [[WallRun up the sides of buildings]]
*** 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
** InASingleBound: The Boss also gains a Super Jump, which allows them to leap miles into the air or just WallJump
*** 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
** NotQuiteFlight: Combining the fully upgraded Sprint and Jump abilities will allow the Boss to glide through the air
** KamehameHadoken: One of their attacks is to fire a blast from their hands; they can use this to [[AnIcePerson freeze enemies]], [[PlayingWithFire set them on fire]], [[MoreThanMindControl cause them to glitch out and fight one another]], [[HavingABlast or just explode]]. The Boss can also [[CastFromMoney convert their money into an extra-powerful blast]].
** MindOverMatter: The Boss gains Telekinesis to lift enemies, vehicles, or other large objects and toss ‘em 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.

* DevilInPlainSight: Given the impossibility of keeping The Boss dead or in jail.
* TheDragon: To Julius Little in the first game.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Obviously, none of The Boss' voice actors are sadistic murderers in RealLife.

* RaceLift: The default character is canonically a white guy with blonde hair in the first game, a black guy with tattoos, a goatee and a tank top inP ''2'', and again a white guy with brown hair, blue eye wearing a nice suit in ''The Third'' and ''IV''.
** This is made all the more bizarre in ''IV'', where one mission features clones of the default protagonist of ''both'' the first and second game as enemies, meaning you apparently were both the blonde white guy ''and'' the black guy canonically, regardless of what race, features or even gender you have selected.

* YourSizeMayVary: In ''1'', they're of average height, in ''2'', they are a head height taller than almost every character. In ''The Third'' and ''IV'', they are about the same height as ''2'' (still taller than [=NPCs=]), but the other Saints have increased in size to match.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: With the female Boss' sex appeal set at maximum, and while wearing one of several outfits that become available. The "Elegant Couture" dress provides a textbook example of this trope, even if The Boss is virtually flat-chested.
* {{Acrofatic}}: You can make your Boss fat (ranging from "chubby" fat to [[Creator/GabrielIglesias "DAMN!"]] fat), and they'll still be able to sprint and jump without a hitch. Regarding the sprint, you can unlock infinite sprint... meaning you can run laps around the city and ''still'' look like you're in danger of having a heart attack at any minute. And of course, this is taken up to eleven in ''IV'' with its super speed and super jump
* ActionFashionista: Given the large variety of outfits and CharacterCustomization in the series, the Boss can easily be played this way if you change their clothing often.
* ActionGirl: Whether the boss is a man or a woman, they kick lots of ass.
* AdamWesting: Or to be more specific, [[Creator/NolanNorth Nolan Northing.]] The boss with the Nolan North voice ''is'' Nolan North.
* AdolfHitlarious: The third and fourth games allow to create a Hitler look-alike as a player character (complete with a toothbrush mustache). Combined with the goofiness of the game, the effect is interesting.
* AfroAsskicker: There are afros available for customization.
%%* AmazonianBeauty: It's possible to make your female Boss one. Even better, the Boss is taller than almost every other character by default (and height is more or less the only thing about them that can't be altered), so a beautiful Boss with muscles also automatically co-qualifies as a StatuesqueStunner.
* AngryBlackMan: The default character in "Saints Row 2". Kenn Michael is also the only voice actor to appear in every post-Saints 1 game.
* AnimeHair: The "Anime" hairstyle in ''The Third'' and ''IV'' is a more subdued version, while a wig in ''4'' that resembles [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan hair]] plays this straight. The Anime Pack DLC in ''4'' also includes MegaTwintails and a hairstyle taken from [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud Strife]].
* AnythingThatMoves: ''IV'' gives players the option to "romance" more or less the entire supporting cast, regardless of gender or race. Even a robot.
* AmbiguouslyGay[=/=]DepravedBisexual:
** Female boss has an interest in girls, and one voice, when stoned, asks if Pierce was interested in her, making it obvious they don't mind batting for either team. The same voice also ask Johnny if a hospital is a good place to pick up guys and later remarks on phone watching two strippers perform.
** Female Voice 1 in ''The Third'' flirts with both Shaundi and Kinzie, but tells Kia (while disguised as Cyrus Temple) "I like men", though that could have been the Boss trying to uncomfortably deflect Kia's interest before the latter realized the Saints' deception.
** Can be possibly confirmed in ''Saint's Row IV'' as both the Male and Female bosses can romance all their crewmembers (yes, [[{{Polyamory}} ALL of them]]), regardless of gender.
* AndThisIsFor: In the third game, Female Voice 1 Boss will give one when planting each explosive during the final mission of the "Shock and Awe" ending. Makes it all the more poignant.
-->One for [[spoiler:Shaundi]]...\\
One for [[spoiler:Viola]]...\\
One for my crew...\\
And one just for me...
** In ''Saints Row 2'', Female Voice 3 (Hispanic) will shout [[spoiler: "Let's do this for Carlos!"]] when storming the Brotherhood's HQ with the Saints.
* AuthorAvatar: Obviously, it is possible to create one.
* BadassInANiceSuit: You have a variety of absolutely stylish men's wear, and since {{Gendered Outfit}}s are rare exceptions, you can go it as a LadyInAPowerSuit.
* BareYourMidriff: Depending on clothing choices, a boss of either gender can wear these outfits.
* BloodKnight: Female Voice 1 of ''The Third'' clearly loves fighting, with BondOneLiners in combat either deriding her kills as being disappointing or occasionally commending them as a good fight.
* BoobsOfSteel: Possible for a female Boss with the Sex Appeal slider all the way up. Even if they aren't, they're still pretty good sizes.
* ButterFace: Mess around with the sliders enough and you can create this.
* 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!
* CallBack: When drunk, the Hispanic Female Boss will laugh, and laugh, and laugh at the joke she made to Gat in the first game.
* 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. She also tells Shaundi DudeNotFunny when Shaundi jokes about getting married to Pierce and having his babies.
* CombatStilettos: These can be given to the boss, regardless of gender. Note that in some cutscenes, the Boss will be shown walking properly in them; in others, they will be walking flatfooted despite the shoes being actual heels.
* CoolOldGuy: You can make your Boss be an old person, which calls Cyrus Temple's eyesight into question when he boasts "I've been a soldier longer than you've been alive!" to someone who looks even older than him.
* CorruptHick: Female Voice 3 in ''IV''.
* CreepySouvenir: Each game allows you to get tattoos from rival gangs' logos.
* CulturedBadass: Female Voice 1 in ''The Third'' may mention having danced or painted in her BondOneLiners.
* DarkActionGirl: Possible after the first game.
* DaywalkingVampire: In the Third, if the Bloodsucker pack is installed. What specific KIND of vampire the Boss is outside of that, and any VampireTropes that would apply would take too much room on this page to catalog. All we can say for certain is that FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire is averted.
* DissonantSerenity: Female Voice 3 in ''IV'' has some quotes like this, particularly in the Mayhem activities.
--> This neighborhood used to be nicer...
* DorkKnight: 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''.
* EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: And they can't be altered to look different.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Male Voice 2 mentions that he should call his mother more often.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Female Voice 2 in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' has a French accent.
* EvilBrit: Voiced by Charles Shaughnessy, no less! In ''Saints Row: The Third'', there is also the option of a British voice, this time voiced by Creator/RobinAtkinDownes.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: The British voices are a lot raspier than the other voices. Same goes for Zombie Voice.
* FatBastard: You can make your boss fat.
* FatIdiot: The Boss' moments of stupidity becomes this trope if you decide make them fat.
* FanDisservice: Comes naturally should you decide to turn your character into a {{Gonk}} and especially if you strip them naked. People on the street ''will'' be far from impressed.
* FieryRedhead: If you chose red hair.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Female Voice 1 muses that when this is all over, she might get into politics, and mentions an interest in dancing. Lo and behold, now she's the President and cannot pass up amateur night at a strip club.
* FourMoreMeasures: When singing "What I Got" with Pierce early on in the game, several of the voices will have Boss singing a line too early and noting that they always mess that part up.
** If you listen closely to the ''Saints Row 2'' Hispanic Female Boss when she tries to sing "Take On Me," you might notice that she starts singing along to the keyboard intro several measures too early. ''Twice.'' And then when the keyboard part does start, she nearly misses her cue.
* FrenchJerk: Female Voice 2 in ''IV''. Though it only applies to enemies; [[BenevolentBoss she's always very friendly and polite when talking to her fellow Saints]].
* GagBoobs: Set the sex appeal on a female Boss to maxmimum, and she's more buxom than any female NPC.
* GagPenis: Set the sex appeal on a ''male'' Boss to maximum nets this result.
* GirlyBruiser:
** Female Voice 1 of ''The Third'' and ''IV'', who says things that relate to stereotypical feminine traits of herself unashamedly... as {{Bond One Liner}}s. She's also bummed about her apartment being destroyed in ''IV'', because her shoes went with it.
--->''"[[IBrokeANail Damn, chipped a nail!]]"''\\
''"That's no way to fight a lady!"''\\
''"After that I could use a massage."''
** Female 2 voice from ''IV'' mentions wanting to go shoe-shopping.
* {{Gonk}}: Can appear this way depending on the player's choices.
* GratuitousFrench: ''All over the place'' in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' should you select the Female Voice 2. Sadly, the voice actress isn't a native speaker, making those frequent French bits sound really awkward to the native ear.
* GutturalGrowler: The British voices (Male Voice 1 in 2 and Male Voice 3 in The Third and IV) are far raspier than any of the other voices.
* 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 GagBoobs and spend the rest of the game wondering how she managed to squeeze those into the outfit.
* HiddenDepths: Depending on the voice you use s\he be may drop interesting tidbits. Collecting glass unicorns for example. Female Voice 1 apparently went to college and was on a co-ed curling team, while Male 1 has read ''Literature/JaneEyre'' [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes thirteen times]]. The Zombie voice in ''The Third'', during "Three Way", [[spoiler:briefly drops the snarling to say that he's fluent in 6 languages]].
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Russian[=/=]Female Voice 3 Boss. Dear God.
--> "When I was a child, my father would make me fight the dogs for food. <sighs> It made me who I am today."
** The Cockney[=/=]Male Voice 3 Boss also drops hints of this during the "Gangstas In Space" missions:
---> "This is worse than finding out the tooth fairy was just my drunk uncle with a pair of pliers..."
* HimeCut: One of the hairstyles available in ''Saints Row IV''.
* {{Hunk}}: Can appear this way depending on the player's choices.
* HuskyRusskie: Play the boss as a Russian woman and increase her muscles to max level, and she doubles as this and an AmazonianBeauty.
* IdenticalStranger: Given how robust the character creator is, the Boss can look like anyone in any of games. Given his consistent look and appearance in every game, Johnny Gat is a popular choice to clone.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: Play the Boss as British or French in ''IV'' and they can furiously berate the Zin for invading "MY country" when they're shooting them down. These two voices even have inaugural speeches defending their right to be elected President despite not being born in the USA.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: In the third game, with the Zombie voice option.
* KavorkaMan: Come ''Saints Row IV'', the Boss can romance (almost) every Saint member in the game, even if they are physically repulsive.
* LargeAndInCharge: Though the Boss no longer towers over everybody in "Saints Row: The Third" and "IV", you can still make them more freakishly muscular than any of the other Saints. (Well, besides [[TheBigGuy Oleg]])
** And of course you can make them so fat that they become intimidating.
* LeanAndMean: Though from the third game on, the shoulders' width cannot be changed, meaning even the skinniest Boss possible will still look strong to a certain degree.
* TheLadette: Played straight with all the female voices in ''Saints Row 2'' and the Russian and Latin voices in "The Third". Female Voice 1 in "The Third" also counts, but she does occasionally show a feminine side. The Latin voice in ''IV'' is this trope to a T, though.
* LondonGangster: The Cockney [=/=] Male Voice 3 qualifies as this.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Along with EasySexChange, you can change your Boss' appearance and gender easily and no one bats an eye.
** [[spoiler:Exploited in '''The Third'', using it to look like Cyrus Temple to infiltrate an aircraft carrier for the purpose of rescuing Shaundi imprisoned there.]]
* MagicSkirt: Even when the Boss wears tiny miniskirts, it's very difficult to get a pantyshot.
* TheMeanBrit: Male Voice 1 in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' (courtesy of Charles Shaughnessy) and male voice 3 in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' (courtesy of Creator/RobinAtkinDownes).
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: The "Russian" voice in "Saints Row: The Third" skews to this. "Is exciting, yes? Like attacking a tiger with a knife!" Ironically, she gets very uncomfortable at being in the presence of an actual tiger as part of Angel's training.
* MrFanservice / MsFanservice: You ''definitely'' can the up ante by wearing some risque clothes that show off your physique, regardless of gender. You can even be naked, with passerbys expressing [[EatingTheEyeCandy praise]] [[FanDisservice (or disgust)]]. And because scenes will play out with the protagonists in whatever custom attire they wear, they could be this ''at all times.''
* MusclesAreMeaningless: The flip side of the {{Acrofatic}} option; you can be skinny as a rail and still throw people around like rag dolls and kill Brutes like it's nobody's business.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: To different degrees, depending on the voice set. For example, the Boss is insistent in the Christmas DLC that they don't know what a Grinch is. Yet, if you pick Female Voice 2 (French), she often uses a very eloquent vocabulary. Most voice sets mention having been to college during the "Ho Boat" mission in "Saints Row: The Third". And Male Voice 1 (American) is a big fan of Jane Austen. So, it's not very clear how much is for show and how much they actually understand. It's a pretty safe bet they're being honest about their technology-ignorance, though.
* OldMoney: Southern Boss in the fourth game repeatedly alludes to having grown up in wealthy, genteel Southern society. She comments that the fire buff superpower would have made her debutante ball much more tolerable.
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Johnny Gat, if you play a girl. They're ''very'' close friends, but there's nothing sexual going on, and Johnny is hooked up with Aisha [[spoiler: until "Bleeding Out" anyway]]. Can be averted in ''Saints Row IV'', however.
* PoirotSpeak: Russian Boss in ''The Third'' and French Boss in ''IV''; especially jarring for the latter since she was voiced by an American voice actress instead of a native French speaker like Philippe Loren in ''[[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird The Third]]''.
* PrettyBoy: Can appear this way depending on the player's choices.
* PurelyAestheticGender: The Boss can be a ScaryBlackMan, a SilverFox, a DarkSkinnedRedhead, a morbidly-obese gender-neutral pig-human ''thing'', [[GenderBender anything else in between]], and it literally affects ''nothing''. Not character interactions, not gameplay, not [[VirtualPaperDoll clothing options]], not even The Boss's views on stripper poles and their regular operators. Hell, returning characters from the first game will only comment on your "haircut", even if your character is female (in the first game, the player character still had a wide variety of customization, but could only be male). WordOfGod has stated that if you play as a female Boss in ''Saints Row 2'', she was a woman in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'' canon-wise.
* ReallyGetsAround: If you so wish. There are (somewhat obscure) "hoe-ing" minigames in ''Saint's Row 2'' where you can have the Boss hookup with random strangers in bathroom stalls, adult stores, etc. In ''IV'', you can also have the Boss hookup with every Saint on the ship if you want (well, everybody except Keith David and Ben King).
* RedEyesTakeWarning: From ''[[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird Saints Row: The Third]]'' on, the Protagonist can have red eyes and it can even be justified if you make an albino character.
* {{Retcon}}: It's been [[WordOfGod stated by the creators]] that, if you choose a female character in ''Saints Row 2'', it is to be assumed that she was always female.
* SassyBlackWoman: In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', you have a Female African-American voice, but it was replaced in the following games by a Russian and French voice, respectively.
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: In the final mission, after Pierce asks the Boss if they've got anything to get off their chest, a Boss speaking with Male Voice 1 will admit that he's read ''Literature/JaneEyre'' thirteen times.
* ScaryBlackMan: The default player character in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''.
* SensualSlavs: In ''The Third'', it is possible to be one of these.
* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: In his presidential speech, Cockney Boss openly states that what Americans call "football" isn't football, "it's rugby for [[PrecisionFStrike fuckin' pussies]]!"
* SingleTargetSexuality: Russian Boss in ''The Third'' is rather shameless with confessing her obsession towards Pierce, of all people. Pierce is understandably creeped out while Shaundi gets a lot of snark value from all of this.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Common to both the French and Southern female Bosses in the fourth game. Other personalities tend to be more crude in their humor.
* SouthernFriedGenius: Southern Boss in the fourth game, for a certain definition of "genius."
* SpicyLatina: Think of the hottest food you've ever eaten. She's even spicier than that, like the other voices, the female Spanish voice in the second and third games make Boss this trope up to eleven.
* StatuesqueStunner: The height is one of the few things about the Protagonist that cannot be changed[[note]]others being shoulder width and teeth[[/note]] (probably to prevent scaling errors in cutscenes). Thus, female Boss' height is set at as least a foot taller than Shaundi, placing her at somewhere in the 6'2 - 6'5 range. Strangely, Shaundi in ''The Third'': is now almost Boss' height, possible thanks to her high heels, and by ''IV'' most of the Saints are approximately the same size. However, a female Boss will still tower a head height over most [=NPCs=].
* {{Stripperific}}: Entirely possible, but you could also go for broke [[FullFrontalAssault and get covered only by pixellation]].
* SuddenlySpeaking: The Zombie voice in ''The Third'' mostly communicates through groans and sneers, but at the end of [[spoiler:"Air Steelport"]], he'll say "fuck my life" just like with any intelligible voices. He also drops his usual groaning for a spoken confession during [[spoiler:"Three Way"]].
-->'''Zombie:''' "Uhh... I'm fluent in six languages!"
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Can appear this way depending on the player's choices.
* TechnicolorEyes: You can choose the eye color, which ranges from common eye colors, to things like purple eyes, {{Red Eyes|TakeWarning}}, [[BlackEyesOfEvil completely black eyes]], completely white eyes or even [[AnimalEyes green eyes with cat pupils]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In the first game's epilogue, the boss mentions that he wanted to go to Freckle Bitch's, and in the fourth expresses surprise that Freckle Bitch's never opened in Steelport.
* TwoferTokenMinority: It's possible to make your boss female and[=/=]or of a different race. Regardless of gender and race, they seem to be canonically bisexual, especially the female boss.
* VillainousCrossdresser: Can be achieved by playing as a male Boss while wearing female clothes, makeup, and jewelry, or playing as a female boss wearing men's clothes.
* VirtualPaperDoll: Thanks to the many options in clothing and body builds, you can make your own Boss rather easily. If you want to be funny, there are tutorials on how to make your Boss into a doppelganger of one of the other Saints, leading to cutscenes with two Johnny Gats conversing with each other, the only concrete difference being the voice and the height. Of course, making it resemble another character is far from impossible.
** Pick up long purple hair, a tanktop, some shorts, pretend you're in [[Manga/BlackLagoon Roanapur]], and you've got Revy.
** Blonde ponytail, red tank, and black trousers, or jacket and jeans and you have Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}.
** Get a crop top and cargoes, and you got WesternAnimation/KimPossible.
** With a little work, you can pull off Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/RicFlair (replete with their signature taunts). All part of the fun of course.
** With the Boss being the President in ''IV'', it is very possible to make him look like [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Funny Valentine]].
** Want some extra meta-Fun with Creator/NolanNorth [[AdamWesting as Nolan North?]] [[http://www.saintsrow.com/community/characters/tag/deadpool Dress your character up as]] ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} (who Nolan voiced over for his animated and video game appearances).
** With a properly-colored Shonen suit, dark indigo hairstyle, and Laser Razor, a female Boss voiced by Female 1 could be [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Lucina's]] much more vulgar and violent incarnation.
** As if that weren't enough, with a decent formula, you can make the Boss resemble various incarnations of someone who could easily be the Boss' AlternateUniverse counterpart, the Clown Prince of Crime himself, The Joker, complete with a variation of JokerImmunity and his voice actor from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins Batman: Arkham Origins]] and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham Assault on Arkham]].
* VocalDissonance: You can mix and match bodies and voices for the Boss. You can have a male body with a female voice, or the other way around. And then there's the zombie voice from ''The Third''...
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The [[EveryThingSoundsSexierInFrench French Female voice]] for the Boss in ''IV'' will sound ''very'' awkward to a native French speaker, due to the fact that French isn't the voice actress' first language. Also doubles as GratuitousFrench.
-->'''French Boss :''' I am tré puissant !
* WhenIWasYourAge: Parodied; one of the lines demonstrating the [[Creator/TroyBaker "Male 1" Voice]] in the third game complains about kids playing video games, saying that when he was young, he would've been playing outside... killing people in real life.
* WhiteGangBangers: Or black, or Latino, or Asian, or any other nationality or even [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation colors of the rainbow]].
* {{Yandere}}: The Russian Female voice in ''3'' has a...thing for Pierce. As in a "wants to put government-grade surveillance equipment in his bedroom and anonymously deliver him a sex machine" thing. She's also as violent and sociopathic as the rest of the Boss versions and eventually openly admits to wanting to make love to him in front of a live studio audience.
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* KnifeNut: It's easy to play such a character in the first and second game; in [[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird the Third]] and [[VideoGame/SaintsRowIV fourth]] games however, there is only one bladed weapon and both are [[KatanasAreJustBetter swords]].

** Female Voice 1, from ''The Third'' onwards, 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.]]

** With The Boss' election as President of the US in ''IV'', they may very well have become the full-fledged champion of this trope. [[spoiler:And then this same person [[UpToEleven becomes]] the President[=/=]GodEmperor for Life of the Universe after taking over the Zin Empire, as shown in ''Gat Out of Hell''.]]

** ''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 The Boss can only be harmed by melee attackers.

* {{Acrofatic}}: You can make your Boss fat (ranging from "chubby" fat to [[Creator/GabrielIglesias "DAMN!"]] fat), and they'll still be able to sprint and jump without a hitch. Regarding the sprint, you can unlock infinite sprint... meaning you can run laps around the city and ''still'' look like you're in danger of having a heart attack at any minute. And of course, this is taken UpToEleven in ''IV'' with its super speed and super jump

* SpicyLatina: Think of the hottest food you've ever eaten. She's even spicier than that, like the other voices, the female Spanish voice in the second and third games make Boss this trope UpToEleven.

* GarbageWrestler: The only way The Boss was able to fight Killbane in Murderbrawl.

** If you count the Tagging side activity in the fist two games, they’re also a fairly skilled graffiti artist.

* PantyShot; Most notable in ''Saints Row IV'', which combines the Decker Specialist outfit with Super-Gliding to provide a nearly constant upskirt shot until landing.

* AmazonianBeauty: It's possible to make your female Boss one. Even better, the Boss is taller than almost every other character by default (and height is more or less the only thing about them that can't be altered), so a beautiful Boss with muscles also automatically co-qualifies as a StatuesqueStunner.

* SuddenlySpeaking: The Zombie voice in ''The Third'' mostly communicates through groans and sneers, but at the end of [[spoiler: "Air Steelport"]], he'll say "fuck my life" just like with any intelligible voices. He also drops his usual groaning for a spoken confession during [[spoiler: "Three Way"]].

* VillainousCrossdresser: Can be achieved by playing as a male Boss while wearing female clothes, makeup, and jewelry. Do not, under any circumstances, confuse him for a SissyVillain, though...

* {{Bishonen}}: Can appear this way depending on the player's choices.

* PurelyAestheticGender: The Boss can be a ScaryBlackMan, a SilverFox, a DarkSkinnedRedhead, a {{Meganekko}}, a morbidly-obese gender-neutral pig-human ''thing'', [[GenderBender anything else in between]], and it literally affects ''nothing''. Not character interactions, not gameplay, not [[VirtualPaperDoll clothing options]], not even The Boss's views on stripper poles and their regular operators. Hell, returning characters from the first game will only comment on your "haircut", even if your character is female (in the first game, the player character still had a wide variety of customization, but could only be male). WordOfGod has stated that if you play as a female Boss in ''Saints Row 2'', she was a woman in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'' canon-wise.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Optional.

* BaldOfAwesome: You can choose to make them bald, and the default Boss in ''2'' is a BaldBlackLeaderGuy.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: The Boss certainly can, and it's not restricted by gender either.

* ThatWasntARequest: When the Boss instructs Shaundi to go do some spying on the Sons of Samedi, she incredulously asks, "It's gotta be ''them''?" (because, after all, her CrazyExBoyfriend Veteran Child is in the Sons) The Boss promptly cows her into going along with it with a simple, indignant, "Fuck you say?!"

* PantyShot; Most notable in ''Saints Row IV'', which combines [[DangerouslyShortSkirt the Decker Specialist outfit]] with Super-Gliding to provide a nearly constant upskirt shot until landing.

** Female boss definitely likes girls, even if there's one voice, when stoned, asking if Pierce was interested in her. The same voice also ask Johnny if a hospital is a good place to pick up guys and later remarks on phone watching two strippers perform.
** Female Voice 1 in ''The Third'' flirts with both Shaundi and Kinzie, but tells Kia (while disguised as Cyrus Temple) "I like men".

* BadassInANiceSuit: You have a variety of absolutely stylish men's wear.

** ''Definitely'' with Gat. The Boss leaps into action as soon as they learn about his appeal trial going down in ''2'', and in ''The Trouble with Clones'' DLC in ''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 ''IV'', as soon as there's even a whiff of a chance that Gat is bouncing around inside the Zin Matrix, The Boss demands 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.

* RedBaron: The Butcher of Stilwater.
* 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.
* SharpDressedMan: ''all'' of the pre-release/teaser images for The Boss always show him in a very nice tailored black suit with the Saints Fleur-de-Lis as buttons (and the pattern on his vest).

* ShipperOnDeck: The Boss seems to ship Shaundi/Pierce.

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

** ''Definitely'' with Gat. The Boss leaps into action as soon as they learn about his murder trial in ''2'', and in ''The Trouble with Clones'' DLC in ''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 ''IV'', as soon as there's even a whiff of a chance that Gat is bouncing around inside the Zin Matrix, The Boss demands 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.

* BaldWoman: Another possible creation.

* NinetiesAntiHero: The Boss in Saints Row: The Third.
* AccidentalHero: If there's ever an event where the Boss does something good for the city, it's usually by accident. [[HiddenDepths Usually.]] [[spoiler:The Boss still saves millions of people from a nuke and is pretty damn insistent on finding humanity a new home in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''.]]

* AnimalMotif: Downplayed, in ''Saints Row: The Third'' there are predominant shark imagery. With shark-themed tattoos appearing the most, then the ''Shark-O-Matic'', and the various shark imagery in the game. Like sharks, The Boss is drawn to violence and never stops until they get what they want.

** Mellows out considerably in the third game, and not ''quite ''willing to commit as many atrocities as in "Saints Row 2", with several PetTheDog moments. However, the Boss is still quite the nasty piece of work and therefore, remains a VillainProtagonist. Depending on the choices made they can revert back to their old ways or even worse, as they let a friend of theirs die just to kill a defeated gang leader and take over Steelport.
** Veers straight into [[Analysis/AntiHero Unscrupulous Hero]] in "Saints Row IV", wherein they not only expresses concern for the people under their jurisdiction as President, but also spends the ''entire game'' working to save people and take down the BigBad. And as the game takes place largely inside a simulation, technically they never commit any crimes at all.

** 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 themselves on a pole-dancing contest solely for the spotlight.

---> '''Female 2''': ''(Defending against Zin)'' I will kill enough of you to build a ladder back to Earth!
* BadassInANiceSuit: One of the possible starter clothing choices in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. The Boss was also depicted in suits for the pre-release teaser pictures for ''The Third'' and ''IV''.

* BadassInDistress: In VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell, they are kidnapped by Satan. The entire plot is to go ToHellAndBack and save them.
* BadassNormal: In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', the President is able to go hand-to-hand with Zinyak, an alien twice their size. They appear evenly matched until Zinyak invokes their psychic powers.

--> "Zinyak! Zinyak, you leave Biz Markie alone! You leave Markie out of this!! Oh, you sunuvabitch...I'M GONNA FUCKIN' KILL YOU! '''IT'S NOT OPERA!!!!!'''"

* BigGood: In Saints Row IV onwards.

* CanonName: PlayedForLaughs in ''Saints Row IV''. If you choose the Creator/NolanNorth voice, he says his name is actually Nolan.

* CharacterDevelopment: Goes from Julius' lieutenant to a borderline psychopath in the second game. The range of voice options can elaborate this further. The third game has Boss come across as more level-headed than [[KillEmAll Shaundi]], helped further by player input on certain decisions (nuke the Syndicate's headquarters or keep it as a base, use zombie gas to create more homies or dispose of it, sacrifice Shaundi to go after Killbane or save her). In the third game, the Boss isn't as bitter or vengeful with Julius dead, enjoying the power and celebrity status earned from taking over Stillwater and fighting the Syndicate head on. By Saints Row IV, the Boss admits they honestly, genuinely, care about their crew and would do anything to protect them.

* 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 their 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, has moments with Jenny Jaros in 3, and they can romance anyone in 4.

* ComboPlatterPowers: The Boss gains an impressive array of superpowers in "IV." They include...

* 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'').

* DragonAscendant: The Boss reconstitutes the Saints under their own control after awakening from their coma in ''Saints Row 2''.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: The Boss gains superpowers in ''Saints Row IV'', though only in the simulation and [[spoiler: in the finale thanks to PoweredArmor]].

* ForTheEvulz: By the time of the second game, The 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.

** 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 this same person [[UpToEleven becomes]] the President[=/=]GodEmperor for Life of the Universe after taking over the Zin Empire, as shown in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell''.]]

* 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 that The 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'' rolls around, the Saints are acknowledged as the closest thing The 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.

* 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.

** "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 The Boss can only be harmed by melee attackers.

* InsistentTerminology: They prefer the term "puckish rogue" to "sociopath", which makes sense. Despite some of their more questionable actions, by ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' the Boss cares too much about the other Saints to be deemed as an actual sociopath.

* 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 The 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.
* LiteralMinded: Occasionally shows signs of this. Take this instance in Saints Row 1, for example:

* 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.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: In ''Saints Row IV'', they become POTUS of A. 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.

* 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, The 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, The Boss may have rubbed off on her a bit more than they intended...]]

** In ''Saints Row IV'', [[EverythingsSexierInFrench French Boss]] in particular comes across as very gentle and kind when speaking to her lieutenants.
** 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.

* RaceLift: The default character is canonically a white guy with blonde hair in the first game, a black guy with tattoos, a goatee and a tank top inP ''2'', and again a white guy with brown hair, blue eye wearing a nice suit in ''The Third'' and ''4''.
** This is made all the more bizarre in ''4'', where one mission features the default protagonist of ''both'' the first and second game as enemies, meaning you apparently were both the blonde white guy ''and'' the black guy canonically, regardless of what race, features or even gender you have selected.

** The default "presidential suit" in 4 is a very nice all-purple suit with a black tie and gold detailing.

** {{Lampshaded}} again during ''Saints Row IV'', during a throwback mission to ''Saints Row 1'', where they say, "I was too scared to talk back then."

* TeamDad: Shows shades of this in ''Saints Row IV'' towards Shaundi. [[spoiler: Both of them.]] Attempted this with Carlos but [[spoiler:he died too soon]].

* TookALevelInBadass: In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Also in ''Saints Row 2''.
* 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 outright heroic, being willing to sacrifice themselves to stop the missile, and is shown to care about the safety of their friends. In ''How the Saints Saved Christmas'', The Boss learns about being nice from Santa Claus himself, and the story ends with them as the NiceGuy.

** ''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 demands 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.

** Surprisingly ''{{averted}}'' in ''Saints Row IV''. The Boss still does their usual thing, but it's on an alien Overlord simulation, hence the only victims are combatant or programs.
* 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.

* YourSizeMayVary: In ''1'', they're of average height, in ''2'', they are a head height taller than almost every character. In ''3'' and ''IV'', they are about the same height as ''2'' (still taller than [=NPCs=]), but the other Saints have increased in size to match.

* 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.

* SharpDressedMan: In ''all'' of the pre-release/teaser images for The Boss always shows him in a very nice tailored black suit with the Saints Fleur-de-Lis as buttons (and the pattern on his vest).