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* BearsAreBadNews: The Big Picture movie theater has a few ads for a movie called "Bears And Bullets" featuring a bear commando wielding an assault rifle AND a revolver!
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: The woman hiring Playa during the cutscene for the Los Carnales hitman missions offers him one of these as a reward.
-->"You're probably thinking one of two things... "How can I kill someone who hasn't done anything to me?" Or, "How am I ever gonna spend all that money?" [[EvilPaysBetter Let me tell you something sweetie, the second choice will take you further in this life."]]
-->"You're probably thinking one of two things... "How can I kill someone who hasn't done anything to me?" Or, "How am I ever gonna spend all that money?" [[EvilPaysBetter Let me tell you something sweetie, the second choice will take you further in this life."]]
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* SafeCracking: The player has to complete a short button pressing minigame to open safes during the theft diversion in this game. The second game simply lets the player force the shopkeepers themselves open it at gunpoint.
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* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The main HQ for the Saints is a run down church that enemy gang members and cops have no problem following Playa into if he decides to run inside during a fight. One late game Los Carnales mission also involves the gang attacking the church directly. While most of the firefighting during this mission takes place outside the combat begins when some Carnales open fire on the Saints from the inside of the church.
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* FriendlyLocalChinatown: Lin, a high ranking member of the Saints comes from Stilwater's local Chinatown. The player can even pay this district a visit personally to do some activities, such as hitman missions for Mr. Wong.
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* BurgerFool: Chicken Ned is a special homie who shows up wearing his Lik-A-Chik mascot outfit. Oddly, the actual Lik-A-Chik resteraunt is never seen in the game like Freckle Bitch's resteraunts are (which can be found all over the city) dispite them even going so far as to put out ads on the radio.
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** This game is also the first in the series to feature the mighty pimp cane shotgun.
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* CoolCar: In addition to all the awesome cars players can make at Rim Jobs beating a certain activity will unlock a fully customized and pimped out Baron with spinning rims and zebra skin seats. The game also has a few special DLC vehicles that can only be bought off of Xbox Live.
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** Freckle Bitch's is also pretty clearly a much less wholesome version of Wendy's.
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* EverythingIsWorseWithBears: The Big Picture movie theater has a few ads for a movie called "Bears And Bullets" featuring a bear commando wielding an assault rifle AND a revolver!
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* HollywoodVoodoo: There are a few adds for a place called "Eye For An Eye" voodoo supplies. [[spoiler:Calling them after completing the mission where Lin dies wil unlock a zombie version of her as a homie.]]
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* HolywoodVoodoo: There are a few adds for a place called "Eye For An Eye" voodoo supplies. [[spoiler:Calling them after completing the mission where Lin dies wil unlock a zombie version of her as a homie.]]
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* BrickJoke: A few depending on what order the player fights the rival gangs in. For example, when the player is forced to drive around Tanya Winters she'll comment on Luz wearing outdated shoes. Then in the final Carnales mission [[spoiler:Playa himself tells her pretty much the same thing.]] A little later Tanya will wonder aloud if Friendly Fire does giftwrapping when she stops there to buy a gun. Cue a Los Carnales mission where the shopkeeper at Friendly Fire asks the Saints if they want the McManus rifle they just bought [[spoiler:to kill Hector]] giftwrapped.
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* VillainsOutShopping: An entire Vice King mission focuses on transporting Tanya around town in her limo as she runs a few errands. The dialog the player is treated to while driving her to the various stores is pretty funny.
-->Tanya: "Sometimes I just wanna say "Fuck it all!" and go to Hollywood, you know?"
-->Tanya: "Sometimes I just wanna say "Fuck it all!" and go to Hollywood, you know?"
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* PaperThinDisguise: One Vice Kings mission has Playa and Johnny dress up as members of the gang to frame them for crimes they commit so that the police department will be forced to crack down on them. How do they go about doing this? By simply putting on yellow jackets, which is especially funny if the player is otherwise wearing purple clothes and has purple hair. Amazingly enough no one notices its them and and the plan goes off without a hitch.
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* TrojanHorse: Dex uses this tactic to break into a Carnales stronghold with a large truck the player helped steal in an earlier mission. After the back is loaded with Saints they drive right through the front gates and tear Los Carnales a new one.
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* ShoutOut: Joseph Price, the leader of the Westside Rollerz looks just like a character VinDiesel played in TheFastAndTheFurious. The achivement for actually wiping out the Rollerz is another ShoutOut: [[MadMax Road Warrior.]]
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Stefan, a snooty business man who owns the Impressions clothing store is fond of doing this in his radio ads.
-->"This is Stefan, owner of Impressions. The clothing shop where you shop for clothing, you see?"
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Stefan.
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* GangBangers: Almost all of the characters are members of different street gangs trying to gain full control of the city. The player character themself is a member of the only gang with (somewhat) noble goals in mind.
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* CheckpointStarvation: Most missions are short and easy enough that this isn't much of a problem for most of the game, but the last couple of missions in each gangs arc will probably try the patience of at least a few players. There is also a series of a few fairly difficult missions after all the gangs are beaten were checkpoints would have been nice. Thankfully, all later games in the series include checkpoints.
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* WomanScorned: One of the mayhem activities begins with a woman telling Playa about how her husband left her for her sister and refuses to pay her the money he owns. So she asks Playa to raise hell and destroy all of his property to get him to cough up the cash.
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* {{Mascot}}: Several hotdog and drink mascots can be seen walking the streets. The player can even get a secret homie named Chicken Ned by calling a certain phone number.
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** In theory Playa is one in retrospective if you chose a female character in Saints Row 2 and The Third.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Aisha has one that attacks you during one mission.
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* CleanUpTheTown: The whole plot of the game is Playa being caught in a crossfire between Stilwater's various gangs as he is walking down the street and joining the 3rd Street Saints in an effort to curb the gang violence tearing the city apart. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, after wiping out all the rival gangs Playa is caught in a massive boat explosion that leaves him in a coma. By the time he wakes up in the second game all he cares about is reclaiming the city for himself.]]
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* LoanShark: The player can visit a loan office downtown for some quick cash, but if they fail to pay it back on time they'll be targeted by a hit squad.
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* BlingBlingBang: Beating all the hitman missions will reward the player with 4 special weapons. A golden handgun, platinum SMG, and platinum shotgun for each individual list. For finishing all 3 the player then unlocks a platinum RPG. Of course, since several of the hitman targets in this game easily fall under GuideDangIt and FakeDifficulty most players are lucky just to get one bling weapon...
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* {{Stripperiffic}}: Beating one of the Escorts in this game unlocks a homie named Samantha. She works as an actual stripper and joins the player in battle while wearing nothing but a thong and pasties.
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* FiveManBand: The main Saints
** TheHero: Julius
** TheLancer: Troy
** TheSmartGuy: Dex
** TheBigGuy: Johnny
** TheChick: Lin
** TheSixthRanger: The Player
** TheHero: Julius
** TheLancer: Troy
** TheSmartGuy: Dex
** TheBigGuy: Johnny
** TheChick: Lin
** TheSixthRanger: The Player
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* Los Carnales, the obligatory Hispanic gang, backed up by the obligatory [[TheCartel Colombians]]. (red)
* Vice Kings, African-Americans bankrolled by a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive former member turned record company executive]]. In bed with the police. (yellow)
* Westside Rollerz, car racers/enthusiasts being guided by an unknown hand. (blue)
* Vice Kings, African-Americans bankrolled by a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive former member turned record company executive]]. In bed with the police. (yellow)
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The first in the ''SaintsRow'' series of games.
You create your soon-to-be [[HeroicMime antiheroic mime]] (nicknamed "Playa" in the first game, "Boss" in the second and third), who starts out as just a random Joe walking the streets before being thrust into the middle of a four-way gang war by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When the Third Street Saints rescue him, he joins their gang and has to help them reclaim first their neighborhood, then the city of Stilwater (based on [[MotorCity Detroit]] and other Midwestern cities) from the other three gangs:
* Los Carnales, the obligatory Hispanic gang, backed up by the obligatory [[TheCartel Colombians]]. (red)
* Vice Kings, African-Americans bankrolled by a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive former member turned record company executive]]. In bed with the police. (yellow)
* Westside Rollerz, car racers/enthusiasts being guided by an unknown hand. (blue)
However, just as you think the game is over, a short new line of missions reveal themselves, leading to a turn of events that result in [[spoiler:"Playa" being caught in a boat explosion]], the resolution being revealed in the second game.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ActionGirl: Women appear among the ranks of the various gangs mooks and most gangs have important high ranking female members such as Luz, Tanya, and of course Lin. [[spoiler:Though only Lin is much of an actual action girl. Tanya is willing to get her hands dirty and becomes the Vice Kings leader, but when confronted she folds like paper. Luz is basically just a gold digger who hooked up with a high profile member of Los Carnales.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: There is a (somewhat vague) hint in the manual in that the "undercover officer" states that this meeting might blow his cover. He lights a cigarette and [[spoiler: Troy's never seen without a cigarette within reach]].
** This is later confirmed in the hidden ending when the man in question pulls out his badge and examines it. Unless he's joined the cops while the cutscenes weren't looking (unlikely, given the drama it would involve), it confirms him as the undercover cop.
* BadSanta: To celebrate the holidays, a free santa suit was made available to download from Xbox Live.
* BetweenMyLegs: This happens late in the Vice Kings storyline with Tanya Winters.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Of a sort. At the very end of the game, it looks like [[TheBadGuyWins Hughes is going to succeed and destroy the Row]]... when a bomb suddenly goes off with no more warning than two beeps, destroying the boat and killing Hughes. It's not without its price, though -- before the sequel, it appeared the main character had also been killed... and even when the sequel revealed otherwise, your character was in a coma for five years between games.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: The end of the Vice Kings storyline, where [[spoiler: Tanya Winters is knocked out of King's penthouse, falling forty stories before landing on [[CarCushion King's car]]]].
* DownerEnding: The game ends with your character being blown up on a yacht, spending five years in a coma, and undergoing major reconstructive surgery prior to the second game. On the plus side, this justifies any and all appearance changes between the two games... except for, perhaps, the possible different gender. But just pretend it was always like that.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: One of the movies advertised at the "Peep This" theater is called [[RefugeInAudacity "Comatose Whores]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice 4"]]
* EnemyCivilWar: [[spoiler:The Vice Kings still loyal to King vs the Vice Kings who sided with Tanya.]]
* FakeDifficulty: The PlayerCharacter can't figure out how to stick his [=RPG=] launcher over a ledge when he's aiming downward, so you end up blowing yourself up. The frequency of missions where you're expected to drive competently at high speeds ''and'' do damage to an enemy car with a weapon instead of your car near the endgame goes way up. Strangely, this is helped in the sequel by two changes - cruise control and remapping of the driving controls (allowing you to steer/shoot with your left hand and accelerate/aim with your right hand, rather than having accelerate/aim/shoot all done with the right hand as in this game).
* GameBreakingBug: Want infinite money? Go to the Downtown Chop Shop and get a 5-star wanted level with the police. Then just keep turning in FBI vans for as long as you please at $5000 a pop.
** Or, steal an armored car, park it in your garage, take it out again, destroy it, collect the $10,000+ that spills out, get a new armored car from your garage for $500, repeat.
* GangstaStyle: Played straight, but averted in the sequel.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: The underwear options include heart and polka-dot boxers.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: An Easter Egg found by calling 'Eye For An Eye' [[spoiler: Zombie Lin appears as a homie, using her dismembered arm as a melee weapon.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Julius is a former Vice King, and owes Benjamin King a favor or two. King prefers to avoid killing unless he has to. He ultimately helps you dismantle his own gang when his lieutenants turn against him.]]
* InsistentTerminology: It's not The Los Carnales, it's just The Carnales.
** Justified, as "Los" means... aw, fuck it.
* JokeCharacter: Lik-A-Chik mascot Chicken Ned can be called as a homie by dialing a number "for a cluckin' good time".
* KlingonPromotion: Warren Williams tries to do this to seize control of the Vice Kings away from Benjamin King. [[spoiler: While he briefly gains control of the gang, he fails to kill [[BadAss King]], who turns to the Saints to help him get revenge. His girlfriend, [[RichBitch Tanya]], however, is considerably more successful in killing HIM to gain control.]]
* MeaningfulName: At the beginning, Aisha works for Kingdom Come Record company. [[spoiler: Guess exactly where they get blown to when Aisha needs to fake her death?]]
* NotMyDriver: One late Vice Kings mission. [[spoiler: To get inside Big Tony's crib and save a captured Johnny, you must kill Tanya Winters' limo driver, take his place, and pick up Tanya and drive her around in order to get inside the crib.]]
* OhCrap: When [[AxCrazy Angelo]] runs out of bullets in front of Playa and Dex, his face is priceless.
* RichBitch: Tanya Winters.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Lin during the Rollerz plot]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: See DownerEnding.
* SilentBob: The main character is silent, save for a few grunts and groans of pain throughout the game, but when he does speak, and he ''does'' speak, he often says the funniest things in the game. The four lines he actually gets are spoilered below:
** Vice Kings: [[spoiler:"Hope you don't mind hepatitis." Said in response to Gat saying he "was gonna skullfuck that bitch (Tanya)". Even Gat is stunned that he finally opened his mouth.]]
** Los Carnales: [[spoiler:"''Bullshit!'' That's ''last'' year's ''fall'' collection!" Said when calling out Luz on her comments that the shoes she brought with her to the airport were from the current season's spring collection.]]
** Westside Rollerz: [[spoiler:"I just got run over by a motherfuckin' ''truck''! How do you ''think'' I feel?" Said to Julius after he asks how the player is.]]
** Endgame: [[spoiler: "Can we hurry this shit up? I wanna go to Freckle Bitch's!" Said to, of all people, ''Alderman Hughes'', while the latter is detailing his evil plan to gentrify Saints Row and explaining that since the player can't be bullied or bribed, he's going to be killed right then and there.]]
** This changes sharply in the sequel - the main character not only is an Antiheroic Mime no longer, he's ''really'' mouthy. All the time. [[spoiler: He was only quiet in the first one because he was being a good henchman. He got tired of it.]]
-->'''Player Character''': That mute shit was getting old.
-->'''Player Character''': being in charge is better than being a bitch who keeps his mouth shut and does what he's told.
* SmugSnake: William Sharp, uncle of Joseph Price, leader of the Westside Rollerz. [[spoiler: He is also responsible for killing Lin. Fortunately, you get the chance to pursue him and nail his ass after he does.]]
* StrawmanPolitical: PlayedForLaughs in the {{NPR}}-like KBOOM
-->"Are you saying the immigrants sank your battleship?"
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Warren to King, and Tanya to Warren]].
* [[WhamEpisode Wham Level]]: "Saints and Martyrs" (usually and erroneously referred to by the cutscene name, "Salting the Earth").
* WhiteGangBangers: Troy, Tanya, The Rollerz, and Playa if you want.
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The first in the ''SaintsRow'' series of games.
You create your soon-to-be [[HeroicMime antiheroic mime]] (nicknamed "Playa" in the first game, "Boss" in the second and third), who starts out as just a random Joe walking the streets before being thrust into the middle of a four-way gang war by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When the Third Street Saints rescue him, he joins their gang and has to help them reclaim first their neighborhood, then the city of Stilwater (based on [[MotorCity Detroit]] and other Midwestern cities) from the other three gangs:
* Los Carnales, the obligatory Hispanic gang, backed up by the obligatory [[TheCartel Colombians]]. (red)
* Vice Kings, African-Americans bankrolled by a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive former member turned record company executive]]. In bed with the police. (yellow)
* Westside Rollerz, car racers/enthusiasts being guided by an unknown hand. (blue)
However, just as you think the game is over, a short new line of missions reveal themselves, leading to a turn of events that result in [[spoiler:"Playa" being caught in a boat explosion]], the resolution being revealed in the second game.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ActionGirl: Women appear among the ranks of the various gangs mooks and most gangs have important high ranking female members such as Luz, Tanya, and of course Lin. [[spoiler:Though only Lin is much of an actual action girl. Tanya is willing to get her hands dirty and becomes the Vice Kings leader, but when confronted she folds like paper. Luz is basically just a gold digger who hooked up with a high profile member of Los Carnales.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: There is a (somewhat vague) hint in the manual in that the "undercover officer" states that this meeting might blow his cover. He lights a cigarette and [[spoiler: Troy's never seen without a cigarette within reach]].
** This is later confirmed in the hidden ending when the man in question pulls out his badge and examines it. Unless he's joined the cops while the cutscenes weren't looking (unlikely, given the drama it would involve), it confirms him as the undercover cop.
* BadSanta: To celebrate the holidays, a free santa suit was made available to download from Xbox Live.
* BetweenMyLegs: This happens late in the Vice Kings storyline with Tanya Winters.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Of a sort. At the very end of the game, it looks like [[TheBadGuyWins Hughes is going to succeed and destroy the Row]]... when a bomb suddenly goes off with no more warning than two beeps, destroying the boat and killing Hughes. It's not without its price, though -- before the sequel, it appeared the main character had also been killed... and even when the sequel revealed otherwise, your character was in a coma for five years between games.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: The end of the Vice Kings storyline, where [[spoiler: Tanya Winters is knocked out of King's penthouse, falling forty stories before landing on [[CarCushion King's car]]]].
* DownerEnding: The game ends with your character being blown up on a yacht, spending five years in a coma, and undergoing major reconstructive surgery prior to the second game. On the plus side, this justifies any and all appearance changes between the two games... except for, perhaps, the possible different gender. But just pretend it was always like that.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: One of the movies advertised at the "Peep This" theater is called [[RefugeInAudacity "Comatose Whores]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice 4"]]
* EnemyCivilWar: [[spoiler:The Vice Kings still loyal to King vs the Vice Kings who sided with Tanya.]]
* FakeDifficulty: The PlayerCharacter can't figure out how to stick his [=RPG=] launcher over a ledge when he's aiming downward, so you end up blowing yourself up. The frequency of missions where you're expected to drive competently at high speeds ''and'' do damage to an enemy car with a weapon instead of your car near the endgame goes way up. Strangely, this is helped in the sequel by two changes - cruise control and remapping of the driving controls (allowing you to steer/shoot with your left hand and accelerate/aim with your right hand, rather than having accelerate/aim/shoot all done with the right hand as in this game).
* GameBreakingBug: Want infinite money? Go to the Downtown Chop Shop and get a 5-star wanted level with the police. Then just keep turning in FBI vans for as long as you please at $5000 a pop.
** Or, steal an armored car, park it in your garage, take it out again, destroy it, collect the $10,000+ that spills out, get a new armored car from your garage for $500, repeat.
* GangstaStyle: Played straight, but averted in the sequel.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: The underwear options include heart and polka-dot boxers.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: An Easter Egg found by calling 'Eye For An Eye' [[spoiler: Zombie Lin appears as a homie, using her dismembered arm as a melee weapon.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Julius is a former Vice King, and owes Benjamin King a favor or two. King prefers to avoid killing unless he has to. He ultimately helps you dismantle his own gang when his lieutenants turn against him.]]
* InsistentTerminology: It's not The Los Carnales, it's just The Carnales.
** Justified, as "Los" means... aw, fuck it.
* JokeCharacter: Lik-A-Chik mascot Chicken Ned can be called as a homie by dialing a number "for a cluckin' good time".
* KlingonPromotion: Warren Williams tries to do this to seize control of the Vice Kings away from Benjamin King. [[spoiler: While he briefly gains control of the gang, he fails to kill [[BadAss King]], who turns to the Saints to help him get revenge. His girlfriend, [[RichBitch Tanya]], however, is considerably more successful in killing HIM to gain control.]]
* MeaningfulName: At the beginning, Aisha works for Kingdom Come Record company. [[spoiler: Guess exactly where they get blown to when Aisha needs to fake her death?]]
* NotMyDriver: One late Vice Kings mission. [[spoiler: To get inside Big Tony's crib and save a captured Johnny, you must kill Tanya Winters' limo driver, take his place, and pick up Tanya and drive her around in order to get inside the crib.]]
* OhCrap: When [[AxCrazy Angelo]] runs out of bullets in front of Playa and Dex, his face is priceless.
* RichBitch: Tanya Winters.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Lin during the Rollerz plot]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: See DownerEnding.
* SilentBob: The main character is silent, save for a few grunts and groans of pain throughout the game, but when he does speak, and he ''does'' speak, he often says the funniest things in the game. The four lines he actually gets are spoilered below:
** Vice Kings: [[spoiler:"Hope you don't mind hepatitis." Said in response to Gat saying he "was gonna skullfuck that bitch (Tanya)". Even Gat is stunned that he finally opened his mouth.]]
** Los Carnales: [[spoiler:"''Bullshit!'' That's ''last'' year's ''fall'' collection!" Said when calling out Luz on her comments that the shoes she brought with her to the airport were from the current season's spring collection.]]
** Westside Rollerz: [[spoiler:"I just got run over by a motherfuckin' ''truck''! How do you ''think'' I feel?" Said to Julius after he asks how the player is.]]
** Endgame: [[spoiler: "Can we hurry this shit up? I wanna go to Freckle Bitch's!" Said to, of all people, ''Alderman Hughes'', while the latter is detailing his evil plan to gentrify Saints Row and explaining that since the player can't be bullied or bribed, he's going to be killed right then and there.]]
** This changes sharply in the sequel - the main character not only is an Antiheroic Mime no longer, he's ''really'' mouthy. All the time. [[spoiler: He was only quiet in the first one because he was being a good henchman. He got tired of it.]]
-->'''Player Character''': That mute shit was getting old.
-->'''Player Character''': being in charge is better than being a bitch who keeps his mouth shut and does what he's told.
* SmugSnake: William Sharp, uncle of Joseph Price, leader of the Westside Rollerz. [[spoiler: He is also responsible for killing Lin. Fortunately, you get the chance to pursue him and nail his ass after he does.]]
* StrawmanPolitical: PlayedForLaughs in the {{NPR}}-like KBOOM
-->"Are you saying the immigrants sank your battleship?"
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Warren to King, and Tanya to Warren]].
* [[WhamEpisode Wham Level]]: "Saints and Martyrs" (usually and erroneously referred to by the cutscene name, "Salting the Earth").
* WhiteGangBangers: Troy, Tanya, The Rollerz, and Playa if you want.
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