Being the first game in Grand Theft Auto's 3D Universe, Grand Theft Auto III features a large amount of characters, including some who go on to appear in later games in the 3D Universe. As such, they have been given their own page. For information on characters from other GTA games, see their respective sections of the main GTA Characters Index.
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Main Characters
Claude
Click to see him in San Andreas
Voiced by: Hunter Platin (III)
Our "hero" in the series' first 3D title - a former San Andreas street racer, Claude met Catalina during a race in Red County, and after losing his garage to rival racer Carl "CJ" Johnson, he and Catalina set out on a lust-fueled, 9-year criminal rampage across the country. Unfortunately for him, Catalina wasn't the "long-term relationship" type - she shot him in a back alley after a bank heist in Liberty City, stealing his share of the money and leaving him for dead.He was picked up by the cops and sent to prison, but as luck would have it, the Colombian Cartel raided the bus transporting him in search of a mysterious VIP, and he escaped along with fellow prisoner 8-Ball. With 8-Ball's help, he began his criminal career anew, working his way up the criminal ladder in search of money, power, and - if possible - revenge.
Other Appearance: San Andreas
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Apart from being with Catalina for nine years (god knows how), Maria and Asuka both want him.
- Ambiguous Situation: What happens as the credits roll.
- Are Claude and Maria actually involved? Maria seems to think so, but Claude never shows any direct interest in her. He does save her, though it could be that saving her was just a bonus as he got to kill Catalina.
- Why Claude never speaks is never explained. It could be that he can speak, but chooses not too, or that he is legitimately mute.
- Ambiguously Evil: While there's no doubt that Claude is a Villain Protagonist, the fact he never speaks or expresses much personality makes him rather hard to read. It's unclear if Claude has any loyalty or friendship with associates, as he certainly has no issues killing former bosses (though when he does, it's notably those who betray or slight him); and notably he keeps Asuka in the dark about her brother's death, ostensibly to help each other fight Catalina's cartel. Though given Claude's status as an Audience Surrogate, it seems any personality can be projected onto Claude by the player.
- Audience Surrogate: According to
Word of God, the reason why Claude had no name, voice or any real character is because he was designed to be just an avatar for the player, and thus the player would project themselves onto him. Notably, Claude didn't get his name canonized until Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. - Best Served Cold: One interpretation of the game is that all of Claude's murders, mayhem, and madness was all to get at Catalina.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Catalina learns that the hard way in the end, of course.
- The Cameo: Has an appearance on a movie poster in Vice City, and in IV, Niko can don his leather jacket and green pants. In addition, graffiti with his name on it can be seen in an apartment building. He's also shown as the protagonist in the Grand Theft Auto II cinematic. Claude is also a parent option for the Online protagonist in Grand Theft Auto V.
- Dragon-in-Chief: Claude is a pretty effective enforcer for his bosses, be it Salvatore Leone, the Kasen siblings or Donald Love. However it's implied that Claude is using them more as a means to his own ends than the other way around, such as helping Donald Love start a war between the Yakuza and the Cartel. He also has no total loyalty to anyone as evidenced by him killing Kenji on Love's orders. When Asuka learns of Claude's history and vendetta towards Catalina, it becomes more like the Yakuza are helping Claude in his fight than the other way around.
- The Dog Bites Back: Catalina is implied to use, abuse, and discard men like tissue paper. Claude is the first to get back at her.
- Flipping the Bird: Possibly the only way he can emote in Grand Theft Auto III, where he can sometimes be seen sticking his middle finger up at cars when he stands in the middle of the road and drivers horn at him.
- Foil: To Carl Johnson, another protagonist in the series. CJ is extremely talkative, while Claude is perpetually silent. CJ remains steadfastly loyal to his allies throughout the game (Salvatore notwithstanding since CJ was acting as The Mole for the Triads), while Claude betrays pretty much everyone he works for. CJ lasts not even a year with Catalina, while Claude manages to stay with her for 9 years. Also, CJ is an ambitious business man, having business interests all over San Andreas to the chagrin of his brother, while Claude's lack of ambition is the entire reason why Catalina betrays him.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: Due to Claude's silence, we never actually get his opinions on any of his employers and whether or not he felt any loyalty to them whatsoever.
- Ironic Nickname: An accidental example, Maria calls Claude 'Fido' believing him to be Salvatore Leone's loyal lap/attack dog. The irony comes from fido being Latin for faithful, something Claude is not.
- Irony: Catalina originally betrays Claude for his supposed lack of ambition. From then on, Claude goes through the ranks and makes a name for himself in the Liberty City underworld, all but conquering it, all just to get his revenge on Catalina, with no apparent desire for personal power that Catalina sought.
- It's Personal: It's subtle; Claude's betrayals become much more pronounced and cold-blooded once Catalina (re)enters the picture.
- Limited Wardrobe: Outside of the first mission, in which Claude wears his prison jumpsuit, Claude is always seen in his iconic leather jacket and green pants. Even in his brief appearance in San Andreas, set nine years prior to this game, he is revealed to have worn the same clothes since then.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Salvatore thinks Claude is sleeping with his wife. Mostly because Maria said they were.
- Mythology Gag: He's almost identical to "Claude Speed" of the Grand Theft Auto 2 intro
. While no official statement has been made, the prevailing opinion in the fandom is that he's the same. This would be inconsistent however, since Claude Speed was in his late twenties during Grand Theft Auto II, which is stated to take place in 2013. This would mean that this Claude was 7 at the time San Andreas takes place, and 16 when GTA III does. There's also the fact that GTA 2 takes place in the 2D Universe while GTA III takes place in the 3D Universe. Then again, some characters (mostly background characters) in GTA games tend to have counterparts in multiple universes, most notably Lazlow, who has a counterpart in the 3D and HD Universes. Then again, some sources say that GTA 2 takes place in 1999... If it's really 1999, then Claude's 29-31 in III. - No Name Given: The name "Claude" was first found in in-game files, and later confirmed in San Andreas.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Claude's only apparent care towards the Yakuza conflict with the Cartel is if it will get him closer to killing Catalina. It helps that Claude himself helped start this war. Not that Asuka seems to mind when she learns of Claude and Catalina's history and becomes pretty willing to help get his revenge.
- One-Man Army: Near single handedly orchestrates and wins a war against the Colombian Cartel.
- Only in It for the Money: One of his main motivations, as evidenced by his willingness to enact revenge on the Bad Bosses he used to work for.
- Outlaw Couple: With Catalina, during the nine years between San Andreas and III.
- Pet the Dog: It should be noted that the final mission requires that Claude save Maria, even if he manages to kill Catalina first, meaning that saving Maria was one of his priorities. They even walk off into the sunset together. That is unless he kills her.
- Previous Player-Character Cameo: In San Andreas, he appears as one of CJ's street racing rivals.
- Revenge: His primary motivation along with money, going on a warpath against Catalina and entirely willing to kill Salvatore, who betrayed him.
- Roaring Rampage of Rescue: The final mission is basically this, to kill Catalina once and for all and to save Maria. Catalina even asks him what his real motives are here. Considering the mission requirements, it would seem to be both.
- Sociopathic Hero: Or Villain Protagonist. At face value, Claude is among the most ruthless and cold blooded protagonists of the series. If he has any kind of loyalty towards his associates or allies, he certainly doesn't show it. He has no issues killing for profit, and lets Miguel be tortured by Asuka, who falsely believes the Cartel killed her brother (who was killed by Claude himself to help frame the Cartel). With that said, Claude's betrayals are often towards those who betray and try to kill him (such as Salvatore) or even verbally belittle him (such as Kenji, though worth noting is the mission in which he does this can be skipped if the player does the one where Claude betrays him first). While he does have a Pet the Dog moment is rescuing Maria, the Ambiguous Situation on if he killed her or not makes things a little murky.
- The Stoic: He's always completely calm and impassive, regardless of the situation he's in.
- Silent Protagonist: The implication is that he genuinely lacks the ability to verbalize. This may or may not be
Fanon, though, due to the only "evidence" being CJ accusing him of being a mute in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. - Super Drowning Skills: Though the game handwaves it by explaining that Liberty City's water is polluted to the point of toxicity.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He is certainly tall, and several women, including Catalina and Maria find him attractive.
- Tranquil Fury: He literally doesn't say a word when he's putting up a fight, nor when plotting against his former girlfriend.
- Vague Age: No one knows what his age is. However, assuming he has owned the garage at Doherty in San Fierro and has raced cars for about at least a few years, he would have been about at least 20 years old during the events of GTA San Andreas, making him 29 at the youngest during the events of GTA III.
- Villain Protagonist: He's the Player Character of a Grand Theft Auto game, so this is a given. He wantonly steals cars, assaults people, murders, blows things up, and has sex with hookers. He has no loyalty to anyone and is willing to kill even his former bosses should they backstab or belittle him.
- The Voiceless: Claude is mute. He doesn't even make a noise when he is set on fire. The only sound he makes is a pained (albeit quiet) grunt whenever he gets shot, run over, punched, or falls from a great height. There is a video where he allegedly shouts "Get out of the car!" in the trailer, but Rockstar confirmed this to be a hoax.
Catalina
Click to see her in San Andreas
Voiced by: Cynthia Farrell
Claude's ex-girlfriend, Catalina is the cousin of Los Santos gang leader Cesar Vialpando. Through her cousin, she met Carl "CJ" Johnson, an exiled member of the Grove Street Families, and set out on a crime spree with him. She took a liking to him, and a violent, one sided love affair began to take form... That is, until she met Claude, whereupon she almost immediately dumped CJ and fled the state with her new boytoy.For the next 9 years, she and Claude rampaged across the country, but by 2001, she had grown bored of him. Hoping to find some other criminal opportunities, she shot and betrayed Claude after a bank robbery in Liberty City, and began a new career with the Colombian Cartel that often placed her in direct conflict with Claude.
Other Appearance: San Andreas
- Ax-Crazy: In GTA III, she already shoots two of her apparent love interests, but it goes even further in San Andreas — she has graves dug by her house, sexually abuses CJ while neurotically threatening to kill/castrate him (and still somehow thinks they're in love), and takes glee in killing any cops or civilians who get in her way.
- Big Bad: The main antagonist of Grand Theft Auto III. In addition to being behind the proliferation of SPANK, the new drug sweeping Liberty City, she betrayed Claude at the beginning of the game to join the Cartel, eventually becoming its de facto leader and having them shoot Claude on sight. She's also the most powerful mob boss of the entire game.
- Character Death: By Claude's hands at the end of III.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She is very willing to turn on anyone as soon as they stop being useful to her. First, she ditches CJ for Claude. Next, she shoots Claude (and an unnamed cartel goon) during their bank heist to take all the money for herself. When Claude catches up with her and Miguel, she shoots Miguel and ditches him to save herself. Finally, when Claude brings her the ransom money in exchange for Maria's life, Catalina takes the money and orders her men to kill him while also lampshading that she's "not to be trusted".
- Clingy Jealous Girl: In San Andreas, and how! She threatens to castrate CJ if he ever mess around and even after their "break up" she constantly calls through the game to insult him or to try to make him jealous by talking about Claude, culminating in her calling CJ while moaning during sex with Claude after the final mission.
- Dark Action Girl: She's the antagonist of Grand Theft Auto III and enjoys killing anybody with great glee, especially men. Even in San Andreas, where she's technically on the main character's side, she behaves much worse and even threatens to kill the main character over minuscule incidents.
- Does Not Like Men: By her own repeated admission, she hates men. She considers them stupid, untrustworthy and only able to think with their dicks. Her hatred is implied to stem from abuse at the hands of her step-father and step-brother, who did things to her like feeding her stale bread while the two of them ate whatever they wanted.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: In San Andreas, where her sexual abuse of CJ is Played for Laughs.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- Our first glimpse of her is shooting Claude and his partner, then snatching up the stolen money for herself.
- In San Andreas, Carl comes upon her threatening a bar full of helpless men with a knife, taunting their lack of masculinity.Catalina: You big streak of Yankee piss! I've seen fucking eunuchs with more balls than you!
- Final Boss: Catalina isn't just the last enemy you face in GTA III, she is also the last enemy of the 3D Universe in a chronological order.
- For the Evulz: While most other antagonists have personal or professional reasons for their actions against the "heroes", she just enjoys robbing, killing, and betraying people.
- Freudian Excuse: This dialogue from San Andreas, spoken in one of her robbery missions.Catalina: Carl, you have to be fast and totally ruthless! No fucking about like in the betting shop!
CJ: What?! If you hadn't started bustin' things would've been sweet!
Catalina: They had to die because you were slow and stupid! [choking and seemingly quietly sobbing] Like a big fat brat who eats chocolates while his father gives nothing to his stepdaughter but stale bread!
CJ: What? Where did that come from?
Catalina: Enough! I'm not speaking to you anymore! - Hair-Trigger Temper: Just about anything pisses her off! The fact that she seems uncertain how she really feels doesn't do it any justice.
- Hate Sink: She's clearly not meant to be likable in the game due to her attitude and Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
- Hellish Copter: Killed after Claude blows her helicopter out of the sky with a rocket launcher.
- Hot-Blooded: In San Andreas, she is incredibly hotheaded and energetic.
- Hotter and Sexier: In the PlayStation 2, PC and Definitive Edition versions of Grand Theft Auto III, she wore a fairly modest set of black jacket with a blouse, black slacks, and brown shoes. In the Xbox and mobile versions, she instead wears a black leather mini-jacket with a white top that shows off more of her midriff and cleavage, trimmed dark green pants with visible thong, and black shoes instead.
- I'm a Humanitarian: In San Andreas she threatens to cook and eat a police officer's testicles, and, while angry with Carl for some reason, says he's lucky he's not on her barbecue being eaten.
- It's All About Me: She only cares about working by herself, and betrays just about anyone whom she works with. This would later come back to bite her hard when she decides to betray her current boyfriend, Claude.
- Jerkass: She's hotheaded and aggressive in the most unpleasant way possible.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: In San Andreas, she gets off scot free belittling and abusing CJ for no reason (as well as from committing all the robberies in the countryside), and leaves the state before he ever gets a chance to give her some payback. About a decade later in III, she betrays Claude and meets her end at his hands as a result.
- Laughably Evil: In San Andreas, even CJ doesn't often take her seriously.
- Mood-Swinger: She can turn from depressed, to kill happy, to enraged, and back within a matter of seconds. It's surprising how she is even barely coherent.
- No Indoor Voice: In San Andreas. She never stops screaming at the top of her lungs.
- Noodle Implements: Carl's unpleasant experience with her "rack."
- Outlaw Couple: With Claude during the nine years between San Andreas and III, as well as with CJ in the former, since her mission chain involves helping her commit robberies across the countryside.
- Pet the Dog: Her relationship with CJ. As disturbing as it is to say, Catalina does seem to have some positive feelings for him. She says she "loves" him, and even though it's creepy and destructive, both parties seem to care for one another in some capacity, and Catalina never tries to kill CJ like she does with her other boyfriends.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: She acts more like a Bratty Teenage Daughter in a grown woman's body in San Andreas.
- The Queenpin: She's the absolute leader of a large drug cartel based in Liberty City, wielding resources that even Salvatore Leone can only dream of. Her organization traffics tons of drugs on ships and is extremely armed.
- Riddle for the Ages: How she became the leader of the Colombian Cartel after spending years as part of an Outlaw Couple with Claude is never explained.
- Sanity Strengthening: In GTA III, for the most part she's just a drug kingpin with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, aside from a few crazier moments. But ten years ago in San Andreas, she was a complete psychopath who changed mood within a few minutes and made a lot of references to torture and even cannibalism. Justified, being the drug kingpin for her cartel (and the sole distributor of SPANK) meant that she needed to keep her own psychotic impulses in check to rule effectively.
- Serial Killer: She has three bodies buried in her yard, and it is unknown why.
- The Sociopath: Plain and simple, she cannot resist in killing, stealing and betraying for pure enjoyment. She's also very manipulative and intelligent.
- Spicy Latina: Doesn't even begin to describe her. Cesar describing her as "intense" is the understatement of the century.
- Would Hurt a Child: "Leave the panic button or I kill your children, too!"
- Yandere: In San Andreas, where she often goes from sweet and caring to batshit insane on a whim.
Colombian Cartel
Miguel
Voiced by: Al Espinosa (III), Jamie Hector (Liberty City Stories)
A high-ranking member of the Colombian Cartel and Catalina's right-hand man.
Other Appearance: Liberty City Stories
- Cold-Blooded Torture: He gets tortured by Asuka for "killing" her brother, however she doesn't know that people the really responsible are Donald Love and Claude.
- Cool Car: In the first cutscene in the game, he drives a black Banshee with a white stripe.
- The Dragon: To Catalina, until she betrays him.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's unceremously killed offscreen by Catalina in the final act.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His dead body was impaled on a construction pole.
Leone Crime Family
- They have their own page here.
Forelli Crime Family
- They have their own page here.
Yakuza
Asuka Kasen
Voiced by: Lianna Pai
Asuka is the head of the Yakuza in Liberty City. A fierce rival to the Leone family, she is an "old friend" of Maria's.Other Appearance: Advance
- Affably Evil: Very friendly, very polite, and one of the few people who won't ever betray Claude (in fact, Claude betrays her when he murders her brother Kenji, and she never learns the truth). Still a ruthless Yakuza boss.
- Ambiguously Bi: Some of her interactions with Claude come across as flirtatious (and she forces Mike to sleep with her in Advance), but she also implicitly plays bondage games with Maria.
- Benevolent Boss: To Claude and the only one that properly treats him with respect.
- Brains and Bondage: Is one of the most erudite characters. Is also into BDSM.
- Brother–Sister Team: Downplayed. She and Kenji are on good terms, but they appear to be independent in doing their jobs.
- Cool Aunt: For Yuka in Advance. Bordering on Knight Templar Parent and Mama Bear, too.
- Covers Always Lie: Her promotional art portrait? That's not what she looks like in the game. She has much shorter hair and wears a black turtleneck and suit ensemble.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: She's unceremoniously killed offscreen by Catalina in the final act.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Starts a Mob War with the Colombian Cartel and kidnaps and tortures its co-leader Miguel in response to Kenji's death, unaware that the people really responsible are Donald Love and Claude.
- Sadist: It is heavily implied that she takes sexual pleasure in torturing Cartel co-leader Miguel in III.
- Yakuza: Co-leader of Yakuza along with her brother Kenji.
Kenji Kasen
Voiced by: Les Mau
The brother of Asuka and owner of Kenji's Casino in Liberty City. He is the co-leader of the Yakuza in the city.- Alliterative Name: Kenji Kasen.
- Asian Speekee Engrish: His accent is far stronger and more stereotypical than Asuka. Lampshaded in his bio, which claims that his "funny way of speaking" is one of the reasons he's lower on the Yakuza chain of command than Asuka.
- Brother–Sister Team: Downplayed. He and Asuka are on good terms, but they appear to be independent in doing their job.
- Cool Car: In one mission, Claude has to steal three rare sports cars. Kenji is in a debt of honor to some man who loves cars and gives the cars Claude steals to him as a gift.
- Disc-One Final Boss: The second one in the game after Sal.
- Japanese Politeness: Unlike his more casual sister, Kenji abides more closely to the rules of Japanese civility. His demeanor is polite, if a bit passive-aggressive, he greets and dismisses Clause with a bow, and treats all of his jobs as displays of honor. This goes completely out the window in his last mission, where he furiously lambasts Claude, openly insults him for supposedly failing a previous task, and even shoves his own subordinates around.
- Permanently Missable Content: If you assassinate Kenji before finishing his mission strand, his missions are gone for good.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Belittles Claude constantly for his gaijin heritage. Becomes a case of The Dog Bites Back when Claude betrays him.
- Speech Impediment: Besides his thick Japanese accent, he also has a very pronounced lisp, which only adds to his "funny way of speaking."
- Yakuza: Co-leader of Yakuza along with his sister Asuka.
Other Characters
King Courtney
Voiced by: Walter Mudu
The leader of the Yardies, and one of the few antagonists to survive. He offers Claude some work via payphone, but seems to have his own agenda.Other Appearance: Advance
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Vinnie in Advance.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Not as bad as Dimitri, but he betrays both Claude and Mike in their respective games.
- Faux Affably Evil: He's cordial towards the player character in both games, but still betrays you when he has no more use for you.
- The Ghost: He doesn't physically appear in Grand Theft Auto III, instead communicating with Claude through a payphone.
- Karma Houdini: Mike doesn't have time to finish him off because the police showed up after their gunfight, and they don't appear to arrest him. Claude doesn't even hunt him down for his betrayal in GTA III.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: He takes advantage of the cops showing up to give Mike the slip.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Fond of pulling this. Though hasn't ended up dead despite failing to follow through.
Leon McAffrey
Voiced by: Ron Orbach (Liberty City Stories)
A corrupt LCPD officer with connections to several gangs.Other Appearance: Liberty City Stories
- Ascended Extra: In III, McAffrey only appears in two missions, in which his first name isn't given, he doesn't speak, and Claude is instructed by Ray to take him out. In LCS, he has a much larger role.
- Cool Car: He owns a blue Banshee with a white stripe in Liberty City Stories.
- Cop Killer: He's widely suspected of killing several LCPD officers.
- The Corrupter: Responsible for making Ray into a Dirty Cop.
- Dirty Cop: Works for several criminal gangs in Liberty City.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: He was paired with Ray in Liberty City Stories, who was a honest cop at the time.
- Not Quite Dead: He turns out to have survived his assassination by Claude, Ray later sends him to kill him for real.
Ray Machowski
Voiced by: Robert Loggia (III), Peter Appel (Liberty City Stories)
A Dirty Cop in Liberty City with connections to the Yakuza and Phil Cassidy. He needs Claude's help in avoiding being arrested for the numerous crimes he's committed both against the people of Liberty City as well as the United States at large.Other Appearance: Liberty City Stories
- By-the-Book Cop: In Liberty City Stories, he is just trying to uphold the law.
- Cool Car: He owns a bulletproof Patriot, which he eventually gives to Claude.
- Dirty Cop: In III, where the corruption of the LCPD has finally gotten to him.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: He's being investigated by the CIA, rather than one of the series' many Government Agencies of Fiction.
- Fallen Hero: In Liberty City Stories, he is a straight cop and looks to enforce the law. His partner, Leon McAffrey, changed all of that.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: When he was paired with McAffrey, he used to be a honest cop.
- Infinity -1 Sword: Completing all of Ray's missions takes a bit of effort, but you are rewarded with a bulletproof Patriot which can be very handy for driving through areas with heavy gun fire. It's not exactly a Rhino Tank, but the off-roading capability is more agile and it's a pretty well-rounded vehicle. Just be careful to not flip it, drive it into water, or get it blown up, and remember to store it in a garage when you're done with it.
- Karma Houdini: All of his efforts are devoted to becoming one of these. He succeeds.
- Properly Paranoid: He forces Claude to go to elaborate lengths in order to make contact with him. This is because he's being investigated by the CIA.
- Revealing Cover Up: He might have done better by not murdering everyone remotely connected to him.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When he realizes that the CIA and Internal Affairs are out for him.
Phil Cassidy
Voiced by: Hunter Platin (III), Gary Busey (Vice City & Stories), Unknown (Liberty City Stories)
Phil Cassidy is a weapons dealer who specializes in big guns... really big guns. His first appearance is a single mission in GTA III, wherein Claude helps him defend his weapon supply from the Colombian Cartel. At this point he wears military clothing and is nicked-named "The One Armed Bandit" because of his missing left arm, which he claims to have lost during a battle in Nicaragua.In Vice City, he gains a great deal of screen time, with his own mission chain. It is revealed over the course of his missions that he was never actually in the army, having been repeatedly turned away because of his drinking problems and poor behavior, and actually lost his arm in an accident involving a batch of moonshine and some homemade explosives.
Phil later has a short cameo in Liberty City Stories, and eventually returns in Vice City Stories as a major character.
Other Appearances: Vice City, Liberty City Stories, and Vice City Stories
- Ambiguously Trained: Phil Cassidy is alleged to have served in the army in some games, but others say they doubt this in others. Notably, he claims to have lost his arm in combat in Grand Theft Auto III, but Grand Theft Auto: Vice City shows he lost it due to an accident with explosives.
- An Arm and a Leg: Contrary to what he says, he didn't lose it in Nicaragua. Accidentally blew it off in Vice City with a small explosive while drunk.
- Ascended Extra: After playing a bit part in III, he plays a much bigger role in the Vice City games.
- Drowning My Sorrows: In Vice City Stories, after Louise's death.
- Gun Nut: He's pretty enthusiastic about his love of guns, especially in Vice City.
- Hidden Depths: He may not have served in the army, but his marksmanship is really good, without any formal training.
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood:Phil: [extremely intoxicated] The thing is, Vicky boy, my daddy was an angry man. He never, ever told me I was special. In fact - he used to beat me. Especially when he caught me staring at my cousin or my sister. You know what he said to me? He said I'd be better off dead...
- Hillbilly Moonshiner: He doesn't actually live in a rural area, but he otherwise fits this trope to a T.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: in Vice City Stories, he doesn't take Louise's death well.
- Major Injury Underreaction: He has severely blown his arm off through a massive explosion, yet he's so drunk that his reaction to said injury involves him simply laughing it off.
- Phony Veteran: He desperately wishes he'd been in the army, and constantly makes up stories about wars he didn't fight in to sound tough.
- Porn Stache: In Vice City Stories.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Downplayed. In Vice City Stories, he clearly wants to avenge his sister's death, but all he winds up doing is drunkenly ramming a truck full of explosives into Fort Baxter to help Vic steal a helicopter, and doesn't appear again afterwards.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: He wasn't really in the military, but he apparently experiences "flashbacks" to Vietnam after losing his arm.
- Too Dumb to Live: He should have known that it was a bad idea to play with dangerous explosives while drunk.
Miles O'Donovan
Voiced by: John Braden (Liberty City Stories)
The elected mayor of Liberty City after Roger C. Hole's assassination. However, like R.C. Hole, he is under the Forelli's influences.Other Appearance: Liberty City Stories
- Blatant Lies: He assured that the ferry service will continue when he is elected, despite the construction of the Callahan Bridge and Porter Tunnel. However, he later reneged on these promises, as the ferry service ceased operation in 2001.
- Corrupt Politician: He is no better than his precedessor as he faced several allegations of corruption before he was elected.
- The Ghost: He is only mentioned in III, though he appears physically in the last mission of Liberty City Stories.
- Mayor Pain: He is extremely corrupt and often reneges on his promises.
- Puppet King: Like R.C. Hole, he is controlled by the Forellis. After the Forellis were weakened, he is now controlled by the Leones.
Marty Chonks
Voiced by: Chris Phillips
The owner of the Bitch'n' Dog Food Factory in Portland. He appears to have some financial issues and requests for some special help through the pay phone next to his factory.- Human Resources: He disposes of his victims by grinding them up and selling their remains as dog food.
- Karmic Death: Is killed by his wife's lover for not paying him back and for planning to turn him into dog food.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: He never seems to think of any other way to solve his problems other than with murder.
- The Voice: Is not seen in person until his final mission when he meets his victim face-to-face.
El Burro
Voiced by: Chris Phillips
The leader of the Diablos who's also stated to have been a porn actor prior to becoming a gang leader. Is still involved in the porn business as he sells donkey pornography.- Bald of Evil: If his artwork is anything to go by. Not one strand of hair and is a gang leader.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: In addition to being a gangleader, he also sells Donkey Does Dallas, a porn magazine fetishizing donkeys.
- The Voice: Despite having artwork, he doesn't physically appear in-game and is only heard giving Claude missions via phone.
