History YMMV / GrandTheftAutoV

** If Franklin kills Trevor, the latter's rant sounds a ''lot'' like the "Everybody betray me!" complaining by Johnny in ''Film/TheRoom''.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: This was the main complaint of the game in ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/10598-Grand-Theft-Auto-V-Review-People-Suck The Escapist]]'''s review of GTA V, where it was given a 3.5/5. According to the review, Niko Bellic and even ''Tommy Vercetti'' were more sympathetic.
-->"The three men you take control of throughout the game aren't even anti-heroes. They're just scumbags. [...] It's certainly fun to be the [[VillainProtagonist bad guy]] sometimes, but only buy Grand Theft Auto V if you're prepared to play as characters with no justifiable motivation for doing awful things to people."

** Under clinical and objective perspective, Trevor embodies the most typical features of [[TheSociopath antisocial personality disorder]]: he has enough charm and charisma to be AffablyEvil, [[ThrillSeeker looks for thrills whenever he can]] (need for stimulation and prone to boredom); he embraces his criminal life and enjoys it, disregards his violent actions (impulsivity), [[HairTriggerTemper is incredibly aggressive and violent]], possesses promiscuous sexual behavior and has an incredibly high criminal versatility. On the other hand, he is also incredibly erratic, emotional, and a habitual substance user, something that would be diminishing him in terms of judgment and mental stability, and he is known to have had a difficult childhood. He also has many weaknesses and is very emotionally dependent on other people, traits commonly associated with borderline personality disorder. There is no doubt that Trevor has some psychiatric disorder, possibly reinforced by his regular substance use.

** One of Trevor's rampages is triggered when someone makes fun of his Canadian accent ("aboot"). The game has no foreign dubs (localizations only translate dialogs' subtitles). As a plot point based on pronounciation diferences between two English dialects wouldn't work in written form in another language, in the French localization Trevor snaps when the other guy tells him "tabarnak", a Quebecois very vulgar word[[note]]Depending on context, it can either be used as an expletive ("goddammit!"), an adjective ("fucking") or a noun ("dick" as in a person)[[/note]] which in France is both considered emblematic of the Quebecois French dialect and funny[[note]]In general, French people tend to find Quebecois swear word hilarious, due to them being (including the aforementioned Tabarnak) based on religious vocabulary, and especially names of Christian liturgical objects[[/note]].

** One of Trevor's rampages is triggered when someone makes fun of his Canadian accent ("aboot"). The game has no foreign dubs (localizations only translate dialogs' subtitles). As a plot point based on pronounciation diferences between two English dialects wouldn't work in written form in another language, in the French localization Trevor snaps when the other guy tells him "tabarnak", a Quebecois vulgar word[[note]]Depending on context, it can either be used as an expletive ("goddammit!") or a noun ("dick" as in a person)[[/note]] which in France is considered emblematic of the Quebecois French dialect.

* {{Woolseyism}}: One of Trevor's rampages is triggered when someone makes fun of his Canadian accent ("aboot"). The game has no foreign dubs (localizations only translate dialogs' subtitles). As a plot point based on pronounciation diferences between two English dialects wouldn't work in written form in another language, in the French localization Trevor snaps when the other guy tells him "tabarnak", a Quebecois vulgar word[[note]]Depending on context, it can either be used as an expletive ("goddammit!") or a noun ("dick" as in a person)[[/note]] which in France is considered emblematic of the Quebecois French dialect.

* TierInducedScrappy: In the early stages of the game, Franklin. The worst shooting and stealth stats by a wide margin, a special skill that only works when he's in a car, and alot of early shoot-out missions where you're forced to use him. He's meant to be the BadassDriver of the team, but pales in comparison to [[BulletTime Michael]] or [[UnstoppableRage Trevor]] when he's on foot. Fortunately, doing the gun challenges with him can help grow him out of his early weakness.

** The Beat Off headphones advertized in game are a TakeThat at [[Music/DrDre Dr. Dre]]'s range of Beats headphones. In December 2020, Dre himself makes a cameo appearance during the introductory mission for the Cayo Perico Heist and then plays the starring role a year later in The Contract update.

** The Beat Off headphones advertized in game are a TakeThat {{Expy}} at [[Music/DrDre Dr. Dre]]'s range of Beats headphones. In December 2020, Dre himself makes a cameo appearance during the introductory mission for the Cayo Perico Heist and then has a prominent role a year later in The Contract update.

* AccidentalAesop: Trevor, serving as a kind of AntiRoleModel, inadvertently makes a case for legalization during his "Grass Roots" mission, complaining it would put him out of business.

** Not helping was the fact that they were constantly [[MistakenForGay mistaken for a gay couple]]. In the first mission where they reunited ("Fame or Shame"), Lazlow mistook them for the [[HasTwoDaddies fathers]] of Tracey. The Chinese gangsters later thought Michael was Trevor's boyfriend and "soulmate" (to quote their own words).

** Most of the stuff involving [[ThePigPen Trevor]] actually. Aside from taking ADateWithRosiePalms, he also [[ToiletHumor takes loud and noisy shits on the toilet]] (or in one cutscene, ''just behind a dumpster''), [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomits violently]] ([[FridgeHorror with the implication]] [[IAmAHumanitarian part of the upchuck used to be a living person he made unliving]]), to occasionally wearing [[VillainousCrossdresser women's clothing]], or [[ComedicUnderwearExposure his underpants]]. [[spoiler:Oh, and brutally killing Johnny, Terry, Clay, the Lost MC, Debra and Floyd, etc., etc., etc.]]

** As of The Cayo Perico Heist update, Pavel is hugely beloved by fans due to his friendly personality and witty comments, and takes a much smaller cut when completing the Cayo Perico heist compared to Lester who takes a chunk in other heists.
* EpilepticTrees: The Cayo Perico Heist ends with the info El Rubio was blackmailing Madrazo with being a picture of Trevor and Patricia Madrazo nude in bed. Some people took this to believe that Miguel Madrazo is Trevor's son and not Martin's. This is despite the fact that Miguel is in his mid-20's at least, and the relationship between Trevor and Patricia happened in 2013, so even if Trevor got Patricia pregnant in that time, Miguel would only be 7 or 8 years old.

* GameBreaker: Being a Rockstar game, it should be no surprise the multiplayer has... questionable balance.

** The Advanced Rifle. High firing rate, great accuracy, and decent damage make this weapon ridiculously powerful against other players, especially since the Carbine Rifle and Assault Rifle just can't hold a candle to it.

** [[TankGoodness The Rhino.]] Any player able to afford or successfully steal one can quickly find themselves become the scourge of the multiplayer session.
** The TM-02 Khanjali. The Rhino has not been at the top for a long time but the Khanjali puts a tank up high once more, with its ability to be given armor and engine upgrades like a car, bring up to three friends riding/gunning with you, and drop mines.

** Both the Armored Kuruma and the Insurgent are basically more durable than the Rhino, and are virtually invincible against entire groups of [=NPCs=]. In Online, you can get the Kuruma fairly early after the introductory heist if you save up enough cash, and is fantastic for certain jobs where you need to wipe out a large group of [=NPCs=], as the armored windows makes it ''extremely difficult'' for enemies to hit players, meaning an entire group in a Kuruma can come out entirely unscathed from a fight that can normally give groups of players a lot of trouble. The Insurgent doesn't offer quite as much protection due to the more exposed windows (in fact, you are considerably more vulnerable to gunfire than in the armored Kuruma, which by comparison makes you virtually invincible against NPC gunfire unless you're unlucky (other players are another story, but the small windows still makes proper aiming much harder)), but it is still extremely durable, and the variant with the gun turret can easily destroy most unarmored vehicles extremely quickly, which offsets the vulnerability.
** The Homing Launcher is a massive one in online, and was an even bigger one before its Nerf. It was probably added to the game to address player concerns that Lazer jets could essentially only be stopped with another plane of the same type. To fulfill this role the homing launcher;s titular homing projectile is the fastest and most agile missile in the game. It can lock onto any vehicle in the game. period. And since its a DLC weapon any player at any level can buy it. The Homing launcher essentially made helicopters obsolete overnight, as it can destroy all but one in one hit and there is almost no way to dodge them. To make matters worse it didn't really solve the aforementioned Lazer problem it was created to address.

** With the Further Adventure in Finance and Feleony some weapons now get drum magazines. The machine Pistol and Special Carbine Rifle both benefit greatly from this, the Rifle being an assult rifle that holds 100 bullets with the new magazine and still having a fast reload speed compred to the [=LMGs=], and the machine pistol being usable in cars, fully automatic, and only slightly worse than the AP pistol.
** The Gunrunning DLC introduced MK II weapons with the ability to equip different ammo for different situations. The Heavy sniper got a new ammo type that explodes. It can one shot a max hp max body armor player on bullshark testosterone and kill any unarmored vehicle on one shot, with one exception we will discuss in a second. Since its a bullet and not a projectile, it can enter the cabins of vehicles through unarmored windows and kill the occupant it hits, which will not damage the vehicle. Its amazingly efficient at dispatching even the most game breaking vehicles in the game or at least killing the drivers. Its greifing potential is so high that some players think even using it should count as bad sport points. This was partially nerfed in the Doomsday Heist update. It no longer one-hit kills players and NPC's, now requiring 2 shots to kill as if using regular ammo and an unarmored player/NPC.
** The freaking [[KillSat Orbital Cannon]]. While one could argue that its intended purpose was to be PurposefullyOverpowered, costing upwards of $3.5 million in-game and then $500,000-$750,000 per shot, it can hit you ''anywhere on the map'' and '''will''' [[OneHitKill one-shot]] nearly any vehicle you're in, meaning the only way to defend yourself is to [[ParanoiaFuel never leave your safehouse]]. Given that the weapon was supposed to be [[AwesomeButImpractical prohibitively expensive]] to use, all it has done has exacerbated the fact that GoodBadBugs to get easy money and [[BribingYourWayToVictory whales]] buying shark cards have now made the game all but unplayable, as they were just given a griefer's wet dream. Needless to say... players are ''furious''.
** The Slasher game mode is ''supposed'' to be stacked in favor of ''the guy with the shotgun'', forcing players to hide and run until they get shotguns themselves. In practice, however, a well-placed ambush can lead to the hunter's demise, as the game's ''questionable'' melee mechanics allow even one of the hiders to start beating the hunter to death with a flashlight, with the hunter unable to retreat far enough to even be able to shoot at point-blank range, as the default point-blank attack with the shotgun is hitting the other player with the stock, which does ''less'' damage than the flashlight. If the hiders group up and surprise the hunter, they can swarm and overwhelm him/her easily. This became especially prominent after youtubers started realizing this could be done, and now the "meta" for Slasher is basically more about the hunter killing the hiders ''before'' they can take him/her down, rather than waiting for the timer to run down. Again, with ''flashlights''.[[note]]This could be easily fixed with an ObviousRulePatch reducing the damage of the flashlights and making the stock hit a OneHitKill.[[/note]]
** As of the After Hours update, the Oppressor [=MK2=] takes its precursor and cranks nearly every aspect of it up to eleven. Not only is it mind-numbingly difficult to hit, but it is often loaded with [[SuperPersistentMissile missiles that are difficult to evade without assistance without countermeasures,]] [[MisguidedMissile countermeasures to deter missiles or lock-on,]] is able to be called in from anywhere thanks to the convenience of a motorcycle club, and possesses very high evasive capabilities. Thankfully, [[GlassCannon it's only destroyed in one hit from any explosive]], and as of The Diamond Casino Heist update, has a 5 minute cooldown before it can be respawned. On that note, the introduction of the missile lock-on jammer from ''The Contract'' update's Imani tech (which basically makes the cars from the DLC '''[[NoSell entirely immune to missile lock-on when equipped]]''') has started to make the Oppressor Mk. II fall into AwesomeButImpractical territory as it's extremely difficult to hit any vehicle equipped with the said jammer as they can evade the missiles and make the Mk. II run dry before getting the chance to hit them up to nine homing missiles before exploding, which can generate frustration among its users including Griefers.
** With the release of Los Santos Tuners update, the Karin Calico [=GTF=] (Toyota Celica GT-Four) is an absolute killer in street races due to its excellent grip and acceleration which can demolish the competition in hands of a skilled player ''even in bone stock condition''. According to Website/YouTube user [=Broughy1322=], it reaches the top-speed of 121 MPH (195 KMH) where it can catch up with most of the cars including the Scramjet! [[OnlyICanKillHim While the Ocelot Pariah (Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato) can keep up with the former due to having higher top-speed]] of 136 MPH (218 KMH) in straightaways, the Calico would decimate it in more technical courses [[CurbStompBattle while leaving the Pariah behind like if nothing happened]].
* GameBreakingBug: In early versions of ''Online'', buying a bicycle in ''Online'' and getting it trashed when you have a medium sized garage. The main game engine considers the bike trashed and you can't recover it and ride it ever again, but the garage management engine for some reason still lists it on the bike rack albeit as <destroyed>. In early releases, buying a third bike to replace the destroyed bike won't put it in the destroyed bike's place, but instead ''erases the car in the first slot in the garage''- simply put, the rack space occupied by the destroyed bike is lost. Thankfully, this was fixed in a patch.
** Another one comes in the form of accidentally hitting a NPC while playing golf in Story Mode, as documented by [[http://www.cracked.com/article_21604_the-6-most-hilarious-glitches-in-popular-video-games.html Cracked]]. If you hit a NPC, not only will the police come, but your character will suddenly freeze up and be unable to move, allowing the police an easy target to pick off your character. It gets annoying because the NPC has the tendency to wander in front of you when you're just going to hit the ball, and the game penalizes you for dying by deducting $500 off your character.
** While this bug can be seen by some as inconsequential at best, considering it has to do with the optional [[ChallengeRun Criminal Mastermind challenge]] for the Doomsday Heist (keyword being "optional"), that doesn't excuse the misery that it '''will''' cause for the people that want to complete it, most notably including [[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterGrandTheftAutoSeries the Achievement Hunters.]] As seen in [[https://youtu.be/C74Lmyu7DaY part 3]] of their series where they attempt to complete it, they run into an issue where Gavin notices that the "Challenges Active" section in the lobby didn't acknowledge the CM challenge for him, even though it '''was''' there for everyone else. When he quits, thinking it just needs to be fixed with a restart of his game, the game [[DisproportionateRetribution retaliates by resetting the progress of the challenge for]] '''[[DisproportionateRetribution everyone,]]''' forcing them to start over from the beginning. Even though they didn't fail any requirement like sticking with the same squad or not dying in a mission, [[ShaggyDogStory they were still punished as if they just did, before they even got the chance to do the mission proper.]] [[FromBadToWorse To make matters worse,]] this happened a total of three times, with it affecting a different member and happening at a different point in the heist each time.[[note]]In fact, it wasn't even apparent to them on the third occurence since the CM challenge was marked as Active for all four of them, [[ShootTheShaggyDog and yet they load into the mission being told their progress was reset anyway.]][[/note]] It happened with such inconsistency and crushed their spirits enough that they [[DownerEnding admitted defeat and gave up on the challenge, despite it being through no fault of their own.]]

** During version 1.07 of the game, players could actually fly to and roam around North Yankton in ''Grand Theft Auto Online'' via a glitch. Rockstar supposedly patched this out in version 1.08, but [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gta+online+north+yankton+glitch+1.08&sm=3 several YouTubers]] have managed to get back into North Yankton on that version regardless.

** For ''GTA Online'', there's usually at least one way for every platform to split off from a public session and sell illegal products in peace that Rockstar can't prevent because of either third-party software quirks or messing with network devices physically. On UsefulNotes/XboxOne, testing the console's NAT type is usually enough. On UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, lowering the console's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit MTU]] settings does the trick. Lastly, on PC, briefly suspending the game through Task Manager (or some equivalent) has the same effect. All of these trick the game into thinking that the client is lagging and separates the offending player into their own session so as not to interfere with other players. Of course, there's also briefly unplugging the device's ethernet cable for the less technologically-inclined.
** If the [[KillSat Orbital Cannon]]'s tracking shot is fired without killing anyone, the fee is refunded and you can fire again. If a cheater is using a mod menu to grand himself GodMode, you can just spam the Orbital Cannon at them for free, destroying any vehicles they might be in and making them victims of RagdollPhysics until they leave.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPJm1W5oZSU Demon Drag]], which is an extreme result of what can happen when two players' clients report that their position is opposite to where they actually are on each person's screen. As seen in the video example, each player's client thinks that the other car is to the left of the player. When one player moves to the right to create some distance from the car on left, their car on the other player's screen starts pushing the other player right from the left, which then causes the other player's car to push the first player's car right from the left, resulting in an endless cycle of pushing that's only broken apart by terrain or another obstacle.
** The ''Los Santos Tuners'' update accidentally left a bug in which the windows of the regular Kuruma were made unbreakable, rendering the car ''[[NoSell almost entirely bulletproof]]'' ([[AchillesHeel except it still can be destroyed when shot directly in the body or with explosives]]). Zig-zagged in a way while drive-bys become an absolute cakewalk in this vehicle, dealing with enemies driving Kurumas become [[GoddamnedBats extremely difficult]] in the proccess. Months later, this bug got patched out when ''The Contract'' update arrived, forcing the players to switch back to the armored variant of the car... until the Criminal Entreprises update, [[HereWeGoAgain in which that bug was applied to the Stirling GT instead]].

** Players in a [[TankGoodness Rhino]] are also a pain in the ass if you happen to run into one. They take ''at least'' five rockets to destroy, and considering a player can only carry thirty at once[[note]]Twenty for the RPG, plus ten for the homing launcher[[/note]], and considering that the player driving it ''will'' will put you in his sights, it can sometimes be damn near impossible to get rid of them.
** The Gunrunning and Doomsday updates added far more annoying versions of the Rhino, the APC and the TM-02 Khanjali. Each are faster than the Rhino and can eat much more rockets. It's with the unlockable weapons when things get [[ThisIsGonnaSuck really fun]]. The Khanjali can be equipped with a rail cannon that can destroy even the toughest vehicles in a few shots, and the APC can use a missile battery that's effective against everything.
** You thought a troll in a Rhino was bad? A troll in a P-996 Lazer fighter jet will make you cry. They have a rapid-firing explosive cannon that can take out anything, even a Rhino (thanks to a nerf to the Rhino's armor), in milliseconds. Furthermore, while a Rhino's slow speed makes the problem only confined to one area, a Lazer can easily swoop around the ''entire'' map. It is not unheard of for a skilled jet pilot to dominate a lobby to the point that everyone else has no choice but to cower in the shelter of a building. Oh, and don't bother trying to take it down with a homing launcher. It is too damn inaccurate, and the pilot can dodge it with ease.
** The Heist Update brings us the Armored Kuruma and the Insurgent, two powerful cars that start with [[MadeOfIron bulletproof tires and 100% armor]]. The Kuruma is a fast sports car with bulletproof windows and the durability of the single player car the Duke o' Death. The Insurgent is an outright LAPV with enough armor to survive ''multiple rockets and sustained minigun fire'', and enough mass to smash through anything smaller than the Rhino or Dump, even causing smaller cars to explode on impact with a wall. The Insurgent is so powerful that it even has its own minimap blip, and there's an armed version deliverable by Pegasus that carries a [[MoreDakka .50 caliber heavy machine gun]].
*** Speaking of the Duke O' Death, ''it got unbanned during the Gunrunning update''. This speaks for itself.
** Hell, just about ''any'' enemy with a shotgun or an assault rifle can be this, since they can potentially kill you in seconds (if not ''instantly'') if you're not careful.
** Thermal Juggernauts, introduced in the Doomsday Heists Update. As [[TheJuggernaut their name implies,]] they're mooks in heavily padded bomb suits armed with miniguns, which can easily rip any player apart in seconds. Furthermore, they can only be detected and shot at with Thermal vision, and even then they'll take a hell of a beating before going down. The only good news is that they're [[MightyGlacier relatively slow.]]
** [[FromBadToWorse The worst of all]], however, is anybody piloting an Oppressor Mk II. Not only is it a flying motorcycle, it is also armed to the teeth with homing missiles, meaning that a single missile fired from this bike can end your player and your personal vehicle. Expect to see many players flying with one of these while delivering the cargo. Oh, and try hitting it with your homing launcher, because it's a small target that's hard to hit. In short, it's all the advantages of the P-996 Lazer and few of the drawbacks. They were thankfully nerfed with the release of the Diamond Casino Heist, which added a five-minute respawn cooldown after they are destroyed. Thankfuly this is adverted in the Criminal Enterprises update where the missiles are now nerfed as its now less accurate as well as the countermeasures in which you can't spammed.

* MemeticLoser:
** The Diamond Casino valet, who seemingly exists just to get [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential punched, shot, or run over]] by every player who passes by.
** El Rubio. Due to how profitable the Cayo Perico heist is, being able to complete it within a short time span, and you can do it solo with ease, people joke that he gets robbed multiple times a day and how they use his treasure for stuff like cars. When ''Los Santos Tuners'' was announced, people said that El Rubio is gonna be robbed even more.

** Long John Teabag, a new phone contact introduced in the Bikers Update, has gained a lot of hate due to his annoying phone calls telling you that your Business is running out of supplies and you need to get some more. He says the same call ''every single time you enter a new session''. And it gets annoying ''very'' quickly, especially if you're doing Heists as he calls even if you're not registered as a Motorcycle Club President, bringing back some painful memories of "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV HEY NIKO! IT'S YOUR COUSIN! LET'S GO BOWLING!]]"

** KDJ and Sessanta from the ''Los Santos Tuners'' update are wildly hated for their obnoxious and annoying personalities, their [[SmallNameBigEgo delusions of being massive gangsters]] despite the [[PlayerCharacter Online protagonist]] being much bigger than they could ever hope be, from robbing a successful drug lord to saving the world, acting like they own the Auto Shop the player bought and thinking the Online protagonist doesn't have what it takes despite said accomplishments. People wish [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter they should've gotten Hao and Mimi as the main characters of the update]] as a result from the former two's very poor reception.

* {{Woolseyism}}: One of Trevor's rampages is triggered when someone makes fun of his Canadian accent ("aboot"). The game has not foreign dubs (localizations only translate dialogs' subtitles). As a plot point based on pronounciation diferences between two English dialects wouldn't work in written form in another language, in the French localization Trevor snaps when the other guy tells him "tabarnak", a Quebecois vulgar word which in France is considered emblematic of the Quebecois French dialect.

* {{Woolseyism}}: One of Trevor's rampages is triggered when someone makes fun of his Canadian accent ("aboot"). The game has not foreign dubs (localizations only translate dialogs' subtitles). As a plot point based on pronounciation diferences between two English dialects wouldn't work in written form in another language, in the French localization Trevor snaps when the other guy tells him "tabernak", a Quebecois swear word which in France is considered emblematic of the Quebecois French dialect.

** Trevor Philips is the French Prime Minister[[labelnote:explanation]]Between 2017 and 2020, the French Prime Minister was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard_Philippe Édouard Philippe]], who has a similar surname and at the time of his nomination [[https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/315744623868476125/ looked eerily like a clean version of Trevor]] (he changed quitte a bit since due to vitiligo and alopecia)[[/labelnote]]

** Mr. K., the poor bastard [[spoiler:you have to torture to get information from.]] He seemed like a normal guy with a family, and he receives one of the most visceral beatings in the franchise's history, going from being battered by the IAA, only to be gruesomely tortured by Trevor and Steve [[YankTheDogsChain when he thought he was being rescued]]. He also has little to no hope of seeing his family again; he's left at an airport without a passport or identification, not that either would do much other than get him taken into custody again. And that's assuming he didn't die of his wounds or when he fell down the stairs.

** Mr. K., the poor bastard [[spoiler:you have to torture to get information from.]] He seemed like a normal guy with a family, and he receives one of the most visceral beatings in the franchise's history, going from being battered by the IAA, only to be gruesomely tortured by Trevor and Steve [[YankTheDogsChain when he thought he was rescued]]. He also has little to no hope of seeing his family again; he's left at an airport without a passport or identification, not that either would do much other than get him taken into custody again. And that's assuming he didn't die of his wounds or when he fell down the stairs.

** Mr. K., the poor bastard [[spoiler:you have to torture to get information from.]] He seemed like a normal guy with a family, and he receives one of the most visceral beatings in the franchises history. He also has little to no hope of seeing his family again; he's left at an airport without a passport or identification, not that either would do much other than get him taken into custody again. And that's assuming he didn't die of his wounds or when he fell down the stairs.

* CompleteMonster: ''[[ArcVillain GTA Online: The Doomsday Heist]]'': [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Avon Hertz]] is a genius [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire tech mogul]], inventor and "father" of the [[AIIsACrapshoot insane A.I.]] Clifford, and the true [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the Doomsday Heist scenarios. [[EvilIsPetty Petty]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical]] to the extreme, Avon had his own vision for a perfect world. He sought to [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans create a dystopia]] where all of mankind was replaced with sapient machines who [[AGodAmI worshiped him as God]]. He tricks the Online protagonists into feeding data to Cliffford under the guise of rooting out the Russian terrorist Bogdan, when he was actually using them to gain access to the United States defense grid. After trying to blow of the submarine the players and Bogdan are on, he reveals that he will use Cliffford to hack into missile systems throughout the world and unleash nuclear armageddon to completely wipe away humanity. Hiding out in an abandoned missile silo, Avon tried to use a nuclear warhead to wipe away San Andreas and buy time to allow Cliffford to hack into weapons systems around the world to unleash doomsday. While Avon and Cliffford are ultimately killed, his genocidal ambitions lifted him above all other villains in the franchise in terms of evil grandeur.]]

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* AcceptableTargets: If you played this game years ago, you probably know that GTA V is a '''complete {{satire}}''' of TheNewTens. It should be noted this game purposefully uses {{Stereotype}}s for both humor and social commentary, so none of these examples should probably be taken seriously.
** In this game, Millennials, the generation that was in its 20s and early 30s in the early [[TheNewTens 2010s]], are portrayed as being spoiled, idiotic, [[{{Manchild}} childish]], hypocritical and/or lazy, with an overblown sense of entitlement. Jimmy [=DeSanta=] himself is a personification of the worst stereotypes of the Millennial generation.
** At the main docks, you'll find a drugged out guy who looks suspiciously like Jesus reciting parables and talking about God as his 'father'. Michael, Franklin, and Trevor each call bullshit on him and say they want to go back to reality. He's even said to have shagged Michael's wife according to Tracy and Jimmy.
*** Of course, [[VillainProtagonist considering Michael, Franklin, and Trevor would probably be the kind of people who would go straight to hell for the things they do in their everyday lives]], they themselves may be AcceptableTargets with a good dose of HypocriticalHumor.
** The Baby Boomer generation are shown to be past-their-prime losers who are desperate to even pretend to have a shred of their GloryDays, and on top of ''that'' are depicted to be the reason the Millennials got fat, selfish, lazy, and over-entitled in the first place. [[AuthorTract Really gets summed up]] in this exchange between Franklin and a random encounter he saved from being killed and eaten by Altruists.
--->'''Lacy:''' They kept saying that youth is wasted on me. Like I ruined society.\\
'''Franklin:''' Shit, which is rich for the generation that screwed everything for everyone but ''them.''\\
'''Lacy:''' I know right; the generation before them survived the great depression, fought the second World War, and built America to greatness. Then they stepped in and squandered it all. And it's ''our'' generation taking all the flak. [[SarcasmMode Blame the millennials.]] Even if we are self-absorbed narcissists who expect 3-hour work days, [[AtLeastIAdmitIt who do you think we learned it from?]]
** {{Hipster}}s get the short end of the stick. [[AxCrazy Trevor]] in particular can't stand them, and even goes on an rampage against them when he sees one wearing a "Yes, you ARE a motherfucker" T-shirt (though more because of Trevor's mommy issues making him dislike the word "motherfucker", and the hipster in question telling him to go back to Canada). So Trevor's rampage get progressively more dangerous, going from rednecks to street thugs, then to organised gangs, followed by the ''military''... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and then ending with hipsters]].
--->'''Trevor:''' If there's one thing I cannot stand, it's Post. Ironic. Hipsters!
** Middle-class, White marijuana advocates, represented by Barry, are called out for being hypocrites. While they talk about racial and social justice in their fight to decriminalize cannabis, what they're really doing is looking for a way to partake without guilt or fear of prosecution.
** Political extremists and wingnuts of course are the butt of many jokes.
*** The left wing (particularly on the Liberal superhero show "Impotent Rage") and their efforts to better society end up being sidelined by an unwillingness to confront the conservatives, and sometimes [[NiceJobBreakingItHero their efforts make society even worse]]. In particular, their message of environmentalism is undercut by flying private jumbo jets to accept the awards (TruthInTelevision, as this is a common criticism of climate change activists like UsefulNotes/AlGore), they want to legalize weed, heroin and crack for the mass market, and their needs to have workers unionize and demand outrageous wage hikes and personal benefits are becoming so expensive that corporations are outsourcing to the third world and China (note that the developers just acknowledge the left-wing is causing this; they also criticize outsourcing at several points, most notably in ending C [[spoiler:as part of the TheReasonYouSuckSpeech against Devin Weston]]) and the sense of self-entitlement the middle class has means workers are too lazy to work anyways.
*** There is a constant theme of the left-wing allegedly supporting the common man but actually furthering elitism among the liberal caricatures in the game. The Democratic candidate in the game even admits that her new extreme tax plan wouldn't affect people like her who have already made tons of money. When the interviewer accuses her of "shutting the door on everyone else," just to gain political support, she doesn't even detect the criticism and explains how the people of San Andreas realize that they need a rich hypocrite to run their lives.
*** Both Joe and Josef embody the ugliest side of the right-wing, particularly the alt-right.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Devin Weston]] embodies the worst traits of the so-called liberal elite (or upper class liberals), a stereotype that became very popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s. In many ways, Devin is the epitome of everything upper-class liberals have been accused of being: totally hypocritical, elitist, greedy, opportunistic, materialistic, {{narcissist}}ic, and self-centered. He likes to pose as a liberal and engage in stereotypically liberal activities such as yoga, however it's clear that this is just a facade to cultivate a good public image, as he is very close to law enforcement and is even a major shareholder in a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors private military company]], aspects that make him politically much closer to the right-wing than he would even like to admit. Even Lester calls him a "pseudo-liberal."
** Fourth-wave feminism finds itself the butt of jokes due to be represented by [[StrawFeminist Aunt Denise and Mary-Ann.]]
** Celebrities in general. It's not just not all the "NoCelebritiesWereHarmed" characters, either: The very ''concept'' of celebrity is scathingly mocked.
*** Along with that, paparazzi who leech off of said celebrity culture are mocked just as badly, if not moreso. Any mission with Beverly highlights how depraved and desperate one has to be to keep such a career.
** Although no one is safe in GTA Online, new or low-level players are often targets for griefing and trolling, notably "squeakers" (children).
** The December 2015 update is called [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Executives]] and ''Other'' Criminals.
** Labor unions get crapped on with noticeable frequency. Multiple in-game TV and radio segments depict them as lazy whiners that strike at the drop of a hat over outrageous demands, and the one supporting character who is explicitly a unionized tradesman is a wimpy ButtMonkey with a [[TeenyWeenie small penis]].
** Unsurprisingly, America's police and military. Law enforcement is depicted as needlessly brutal, racially biased and unapologetically corrupt, while the military is portrayed as arrogant and completely unhinged. [[PrivateMilitaryCompany Military privatization]] is also relentlessly raked over the coals in the form of Merryweather, an {{Expy}} of Blackwater, which is portrayed as an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores who forment chaos across the world in order to [[WarForFunAndProfit line their own pockets]] and are paradoxically both well-connected and well-equipped enough to take on the police and operate combat missions on American soil without a second thought and so staggeringly incompetent that they repeatedly get their schemes thwarted by a crazed meth dealer.

** Trevor's insistence that he's not a {{hipster}}, when you realise that one of the DLC packs was called "I'm Not A Hipster." Even better, it has numerous additions to single player --- including very [[BuffySpeak Hipster-ey]] clothing and car choices.

** Michael's hatred of yoga instructors is funny once you consider that Ned Luke, Michael's voice actor, is currently married to a yoga instructor.

** ''Online''[='=]s ''The Criminal Enterprises'' update added oil barons to the list. All of the update's gameplay changes are justified in-universe as being caused by price hikes by oil barons, and the intense heat several [=NPCs=] complain about is also attributed to them, through environmental pollution. In some of the new VIP {{Escort Mission}}s added for nightclubs, Gay Tony in particular has a thinly-veiled seething hatred for any [=VIPs=] in the industry the player happens to escort. He's almmost always heard trying to contain his anger while trying to convince the player it's ultimately a good thing they're building rapport with oil barons, in the hopes they get lower gas prices.

* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: Long John Teabag/LJT used to potentially become this, if production issues aren't addressed by the online player. He'll make a call ''every time the player enters free roam''. This was addressed when the Los Santos Summer Update made his calls into texts.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'''s missions were criticized for being repetitive in their nature, a lot of them having Niko being told to chase and assassinate someone with little variation. Rockstar addressed this with a wide plethora of missions, particularly with the heists. The assassination missions proper were reduced to being optional but with high payouts, particularly with manipulating the stock market.
** 2018 has seen many Online cash giveaways just for logging in. Each one has been at least 150 000$ worth, usually more. While the prices are still high, at least now even those who don't play the game often can gain pretty good money by just starting up GTA Online every now and then.
** The nightclubs that you can own seem to be this for money over time business. Gun running and motorcycle club side business have been unpopular for a while due to how stingy the rewards are and how much time you have to spend, ironically, on these "idle" money making methods, having to constantly get supplies and not seeing a dime until it's sold, which can be interrupted by other players. The club will not only link the business together in one place, let you sell them in one place, and give you more opportunities the more diverse a "portfolio" of over time business, but they will also be automatically run by the warehouse technicians you hire, meaning no more having to go out and grab more materials every 15 minutes. The club itself will also make you money on a "lose profit over time" scale, but instead of ''needing'' the supplies to keep up payment you simply lose total profit over time and need to do "resupply", actually promoting your club, to get it back, getting $10,000 every time the game ticks off as a day with it lowering as your club becomes less popular. Finally those missions will grant you a few thousand each one you do, which isn't much but it's enough to buy more ammo/supplies you may have used, or just a small amount to tuck away, compared to nothing you get from other business.
** After numerous complaints about LJT phoning the online player a lot to the point of sheer annoyance, the Los Santos Summer Update instead made him text only rather than phone you, which is considered to be much less annoying than receiving a phone call from him.
** The first Heists released in ''Online'', while lucrative for early game content, were marred by, among other things, padding in the form of Setup missions, sharp difficulty spikes, a 4-player requirement, and the Heist ending automatically if anyone leaves. Later Heists, such as the Diamond Casino Heist, addressed these: once you unlock one method of carrying the Heist out, you can do it again as much as you want. In addition, player requirments were reduced to two minimum (which also meant players receiving bigger cuts in exchange for fewer Heist members, albeit with more difficulty), and Heists can continue so long as the party leader and one other player stick to it.
** One aspect of ''Online'' that really bugged players was the explicit lack of any reference or presence from the main characters of the single player campaign outside of Trevor and Lester, especially due to their rather large popularity. ''The Contract'' update finally reveals what Franklin and Lamar have been up to since the main story wrapped up, where players can not only accept missions from them, but can briefly play as them during one mission (which makes Lamar PromotedToPlayable in the process).
** A major aspect of ''Online'' that many players were furious about was the griefers who harassed users using the MKII Opressors and the inability to do anything business related on non-public servers (Cargo shipments, Nightclub activities, MC drug buisnesses, Gunrunning) as well as the lack of activities behind the buisness aside from the ones that involves selling your product. ''The Criminal Enterprises'' update remedies that by not only toning down the capabilites of the MKII Opressors, but it also allowed players to do their business activities on private sessions (with the exception of solo mode) so that they could play away from other players and essentially cut out the risk of being griefed while also putting in more activites related to the four businesses to give it more depth.

** ''Online'' has the [[{{Pun}} Top Fun]][[note]]A play on ''Film/TopGun'' as well as a MythologyGag from [-GTA3-].[[/note]] [[http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Top_Fun_(GTA_V) trilogy]] of versus missions. One team of runners have to run off with some valuable stuff in their hands without the whole team dying on either Sanchez dirt bikes, Voltic and Coquette sports cars, or even Mallard planes. What are they running from? Oh, nothing but some hunters flying '''freakin' [[CoolPlane P-996 LAZER fighter jets]] that can blow the runners' asses off.'''
** In the Heists update on Online, there's a setup for the "Humane Raid" heist. What are you stealing? An EMP from a [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas Hydra]] [[CoolPlane jump jet]]. Who are you stealing it from? Oh, only the Navy! After lifting off with the jet, you then get a dogfight with around 12 Lazer jets, and just to top it all off, "Danger Zone" is automatically put on the radio for the last stretch to the Sandy Shores airfield.

** ''Grand Theft Auto Online'':
*** ''Cunning Stunts'' is arguably this on the scale of an entire update as it adds crazy and colorful set piece racetracks that dwarf even Mount Chilliad in scale.
*** The Doomsday Heist raises the stakes several notches above the Pacific Standard Heist, to a ridiculous degree. Instead of possibly facing life in jail for failing the heist, it's [[spoiler:possibly facing nuclear fire at the hands of an eccentric billionaire and his army of clones]].
*** Rockstar made a huge deal out of a casino penthouse decoration, of all things -- the "Yellow Dog with Cone" statue, which was initially missing from the list of decorations when the Diamond Casino and Resort update dropped (there were green, blue, and pink versions of "Dog with Cone" instead). The inclusion of the statue was accompanied by a loading screen announcement titled "Worship the Cone" with [[https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/emgvdg/worship_the_cone/ a related line of clothing]] and a few websites like Reddit and Kotaku [[https://www.reddit.com/r/yellowdogwithcone/ played]] [[https://kotaku.com/finally-you-can-purchase-the-yellow-dog-with-cone-st-1836891193 along]] with Rockstar's shenanigans.

** For races in ''Grand Theft Auto Online'' nearly every vehicle category has one particular vehicle model that clearly stands out as the best, meaning that almost everybody will choose it. The Sports Car class has the Pariah, the Sedan class has the Schafter V12, the Muscle Car class has the Pißwasser Dominator, the Motorcycle class has the Shotaro, and the Super Car class has the Vagner. On a similar note, most of the races you join will be using either the Super or Sport class. Trying to find a race for the other classes available is a tall order, especially if you're looking for the SUV, Van and Utility classes.
** Criminal Records and Down The Drain are the two tracks occupying 90% of Quick Job -> Join Race results.
** Boneyard is the most popular survival map in ''Online'' because it can easily be beaten with as little as two people. Just go behind the trailer near the player spawn point, put a player on each side, and mow down wave after wave of enemies who are unable to outflank you because they can only approach your fortified position by crossing large areas of open ground. Processed is another, where you can hole up in the sheds.
** 90% of the job invites you'll get from other players will likely be for Rooftop Rumble, a ridiculously easy mission given how late in Online it gets unlocked that [[PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling pays out more RP and money than any other mission in Online]]. With the rebalancing of the RP from jobs, that percentage is now more like 40%, which, given the number of other jobs available, is still pretty high.
** The most common Heist you'll be invited to will likely be The Prison Break, since it has a series of easy enough missions and a good payout of four hundred grand.
** When it comes to actual heist setups, the EMP setup in the Humane Labs heist is by far the most popular, since it involves stealing a CoolPlane and getting into an epic dogfight. Invites to this setup can be as frequent as Prison Break invites. One could argue that [[JustHereForGodzilla this setup is the only reason why this heist even gets any play time]].

* CompleteMonster: ''[[ArcVillain GTA Online: The Doomsday Heist]]'': [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Avon Hertz]] is a genius [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire tech mogul]], inventor and "father" of the [[AIIsACrapshoot insane A.I.]] Cliffford, and the true [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the Doomsday Heist scenarios. [[EvilIsPetty Petty]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical]] to the extreme, Avon had his own vision for a perfect world. He sought to [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans create a dystopia]] where all of mankind was replaced with sapient machines who [[AGodAmI worshiped him as God]]. He tricks the Online protagonists into feeding data to Cliffford under the guise of rooting out the Russian terrorist Bogdan, when he was actually using them to gain access to the United States defense grid. After trying to blow of the submarine the players and Bogdan are on, he reveals that he will use Cliffford to hack into missile systems throughout the world and unleash nuclear armageddon to completely wipe away humanity. Hiding out in an abandoned missile silo, Avon tried to use a nuclear warhead to wipe away San Andreas and buy time to allow Cliffford to hack into weapons systems around the world to unleash doomsday. While Avon and Cliffford are ultimately killed, his genocidal ambitions lifted him above all other villains in the franchise in terms of evil grandeur.]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Several articles, including some from [[https://www.engadget.com/gta-v-trans-ps5-xbox-series-x-representation-rockstar-180041678.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIsLVjO4uSOVHGE-bPogm0Snx0bmg4_pqvrnVoZanmgHP1EnSXBBWLTGLA4TfeSaNyH2VjG0eCdAtyQOe6_VuZ0-36ElcIhvxk3hL0Gr-FnYluFguQ2C0FPxwN-iuOQkY5JFacliF7y2mgaS2aOgsXi75E4K4CKsu2JId7qtYgY3 Engadget]] and [[https://kotaku.com/gtav-s-enhanced-2022-release-should-leave-the-2013-tran-1847723098 Kotaku]], have pointed out the game's problematic treatment of UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} people. The transgender civilians seen are masculine men in drag and wigs with narcissistic and superficial dialogue, and the player characters have rude greeting dialogue towards them. The in-game media has a meme about a "tranny pig" on [=LifeInvader=], there's a postal service called Post OP with the slogan "No longer just mail!" (with a logo depicting an axe wound), and there's an Internet ad for a Fame or Shame segment where they are presented as carnival attractions. Rockstar later responded to these criticisms by removing the transgender civilians (they still appear as an option in Director Mode, although their dialogue has been cut) and changing an in-game object's description.