History GrandTheftAutoV / SinglePlayerTropesNToZ

* UpdatedReRelease: The game was updated for the eighth generation consoles and included even more content for story mode than the original seventh generation versions which stopped getting updated after part two of the Ill-Gotten Gains update if you linked your game to your Rockstar Social Club account. Among the new things added were:

** New collectables in the form of 27 peyote plants which when used make the characters hallucinate themselves as one of the many animals in the game with a special golden peyote plant appearing after completing "The Last One" Strangers and Freaks mission and Monkey Mosaics with 50 mosaics in total to photograph in order to unlock a new random event where one of the main characters finds the artist and takes a photo of him while letting him live afterwards awards the player with the unique car Go Go Monkey Blista.

** New side missions such as a wildlife photography challenge for Franklin given after meeting Beverly Felton fire the first time which when completed rewards him with the Kraken submarine at a new dock, a murder mystery for Michael which rewards him with a noir camera filter when completed, stunt plane time trials which were originally only available in the collectors edition of the original game, and Stock Car Racing for all characters after Trevor receives the message from Ron about it.
** New collectables in the form of 27 peyote plants which when used make the characters hallucinate themselves as one of the many animals in the game with a special golden peyote plant appearing after completing "The Last One" Strangers and Freaks mission and Monkey Mosaics with 50 mosaics in total to photograph in order to unlock a new random event where one of the main characters finds the artist and takes a photo of him while letting him live afterwards awards the player with unique car designs.

* UpdatedReRelease: The game was updated for the eighth generation consoles and included even more content than the original seventh generation versions if you linked your game to your Rockstar Social Club account.

** As with the previous game, UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror plays a significant role in some portions of ''V''. Merryweather Security went from a small-time security firm to a full-on private military company thanks to making bloody profits on conflicts in the Middle East, and are now one of the most powerful entities in the United States. The FIB and IAA both exhibit paranoia and fear akin to their real-life counterparts over Islamic terrorism, and Weazel News is quick to report on any potential un-American activities or threats. Many of the in-universe politicians cite an end to the War on Terror, either peacefully or through evermore security and policing, as their campaign qualities.

* NoFourthWall: Simon Richard's movie, ''Meltdown.''

* TooAwesomeToUse: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4X9LXEhMdY The Minigun]]. It's powerful, devastating, and even ''sounds'' cool when firing it. It's an awesome weapon for ripping and tearing everything in sight. Too bad it just burns through (expensive) ammo so quickly...

* OedipusComplex: Trevor. Just don't call him a "motherfucker."
--> '''Trevor:''' ''[Enraged]'' It's not legally "fucking" if you do not ''penetrate!''

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: At the end of the mission "Derailed" Michael tells Trevor that if he gives Michael the loot so he can [[spoiler:get himself out of Martin's bad graces]] he will get Trevor something better in return. When Michael tells him it's [[spoiler:the Union Depository]] Trevor goes from irritated to uncharacteristically silent, clearly stunned at what Michael just suggested. He even claims it to be impossible and borderline suicidal only for Michael to insist that with Franklin and Lester it's not some unattainable dream the way it was when they were younger. And Trevor has zero back talk for it. It truly sells the gravity of the idea if it makes Trevor shut up.

%%* VitriolicBestBuds:
%%** The protagonists much of the time.
%%** Franklin and Lamar.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:The canon Deathwish ending is this. It turns out that continually antagonizing, threatening and intimidating three OneManArmy killers eventually ends very badly. Haines, Weston, Cheng and Stretch all find this out the hard way.]]

--> You forget thousands of things every day. Make sure this is one of 'em.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The mission "Uncalculated Risk" is pretty much nothing more than a glorified cutscene in which [[spoiler:you watch Dom jump off the Land Act Dam to his death]]. There is, however, a single Gold requirement: [[spoiler:make the ''exact same jump'' (though preferably with a parachute)]]. Anyone who says they got Gold on this mission on their first attempt is a bald-faced ''liar''.

* WeAllLiveInAmerica:
** Trevor's first mission has him tracking the local chapter of The Lost biker gang. When you get close to their bar, Ron will will say "They're meant to be at this bar". "Meant to be" being an alternate way of saying "are" in the UK, where developer Rockstar North is based, but it's not a phrase you'd likely hear an American saying. "Supposed to be" is much more common.
** On the Non Stop Pop station, the DJ at one point refer to the TurnOfTheMillennium as "The Noughties" which is a term used in the UK, Canada and Australia, but not much in America due to the word "nought" fading from American English, which means, to American ears, it sounds more like "The Naughties".
** "Towards", "forwards" and "backwards" crop up in speech a lot, though Americans would normally omit the final "s" in each of these words.
** Trevor quips that his final Bail Bonds target (who has a big white beard) looks like Father Christmas - better known in the States as Santa Claus.
** Some redneck [=NPCs=] will shout "You bleedin' asshole!" when angered. "Bleeding" is a minced form of "bloody", which, in case it wasn't obvious, is a very British insult.

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* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler:Devin's legal secretary, Molly]], by means of TurbineBlender. All that's left is a hand and scraps of flesh.

* RuleOfSymbolism: In-game, there's quite a few nods to - Ron and Chef represent the paranoid ConspiracyTheorist viewpoint, what with their ramblings about [[GovernmentConspiracy government mind control drugs]] and [[AncientAstronauts Annunaki]], whereas the newly successful Franklin is referred to by multiple characters as "Illuminati" in the context of urban black slang popularized by rappers like Killer Mike[[note]](i.e., an individual who has more money than they will ever need or even be able to spend)[[/note]]. Lester even keeps an Illuminati ''poster'' in his home, and is a firm believer in the Illuminati and New World Order conspiracies.

** Trevor feels that he, Brad, and Michael were this back when they were a team, and holds the concept of being loyal to your friends to the bitter end very highly. It's particularly why he and Michael's relationship is so strained now, as he feels the latter betrayed the friendship they had when Michael faked his own death and retired from the game.

** As expensive as Michael's mansion looks, it doesn't appear to have any sort of security system. Both Franklin and Trevor are able to gain unannounced access to the interior of the house without much effort. [[spoiler:This also explains how Merryweather could easily infiltrate Michael's house later in the game]].