Protagonists | Friends, Family and Associates | Crime Families and Other Organizations | Other Characters
This is the character sheet concerning other criminals, girlfriends, and random characters in Grand Theft Auto IV and its downloadable expansions.
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United Liberty Paper
The United Liberty Paper Merchants, a perfectly legitimate company that is in no way a front for the IAA.
The Contact
The Contact
"You can't always tell who the good guys are. I'm not a good guy. But I'm fighting with them, and guess what? So are you."
Voiced by: Milton James
A mysterious, bespectacled man acting as Niko's handler on jobs for the company.
For tropes relating to his appearance in Grand Theft Auto V, see his entry in this character sheet.
- Ambiguously Evil: He coerces Niko in working with him via blackmail to get rid of people who are supposedly part of a terrorist group, but some other missions involve killing people who threaten the ULP, leaving it ambiguous how justified his actions are.
- Big Good: He's the closest thing to it in the game - while it's unclear how justified his actions are, he ultimately keeps his promises to Niko, periodically providing him with assistance from on high.
- The Bus Came Back: He returns in GTA 5 and Online.
- Confirmed Bachelor: He mentions during one conversation that he was never married, possibly due to the nature of his work.
- Cunning Linguist: He reveals himself to be fluent in Serbian during his first meeting with Niko.
- Deadpan Snarker: He and Niko trade snide, thinly-veiled insults in almost all their conversations.
- Demoted to Extra: Goes from a main character in 4 to a minor character in 5. He gains his prominence back in Online, though.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Examining the diploma hanging in his office reveals it to have been addressed to one "Edward T. Fortune
◊". It also contains the seal of the CIA, the first hint at his company's true affiliation.- While it is true that he is an IAA agent in V, however it is later revealed that his name is Bernard in the Doomsday Heist.
- Given Name Reveal: After going nameless in GTA 4 and 5, GTA Online gives us his name Bernard.
- The Handler: Though he is a much colder example than most.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Despite his very cold demeanor, it is implied that he has quite a bit of respect for Niko. This can be seen in his emails wherein he warns Niko to stay away from the Pegorinos, and later, when he delivers Darko Brevic to Niko as a parting gift.
- I Gave My Word: He parts ways with Niko by locating and delivering Darko Brevic as agreed.
- He also says that they did the same thing with Michelle and "gave her her life back" after she accomplished her mission of monitoring Niko.
- Interservice Rivalry: He loves talking smack about the FIB."The FIB? Do I look homosexual? Do you think I care about the size of your Johnson?"
- The Men in Black: He's essentially this, his company being a top-secret division of the IAA devoted to fighting terrorism from the shadows and using extensive cover-ups to keep their actions secret.
- No Name Given: He refuses to give a name to Niko, and the game files provide two entirely different ones. Given his line of work, it wouldn't be surprising if he had many names.
- Odd Friendship: With The Don of the Gambetti Family, Jon Gravelli.
- The Spook: No Name Given. Physical description matches most males in his workplace. No distinguishing features. Nature of employment undisclosed. The man reads like a checklist for black ops agents.
- Smug Snake: Always puts on a cool, collected, and confident air because he knows he has Niko completely under his control.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: He regularly engages in this with Niko.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He mentions that his organization always uses people the same way Michelle and Niko were used to supposedly help them take down people who are a threat to the country.
Michelle
Michelle (real name: Karen Daniels)
"I'm sorry that I lied to you. And... and weirdly in some ways you're a nice guy... better than the creeps I normally date."
Voiced by: Rebecca Henderson
A friend to Mallorie Bardas. She meets Niko on a date. It later turns out that Karen is one of the IAA's many agents, and working under The Contact at the ULP.
For tropes relating to her appearance in Grand Theft Auto V, see her entry in this character sheet.
- All There in the Script: See her folder in the character sheet linked above.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: It's heavily implied by The Contact that this was the reason she agreed to spy on Niko.
- Big Eater: If Niko takes her to a restaurant, she always says that she ate way too much, we don't see how much she eats, but it has to be a lot. And she can be taken to a restaurant every day.
- Damning With Faint Praise: Says Niko is better than most guys she dates—despite the fact that he's a hitman.
- Devil in Plain Sight: Mallorie remarks that Michelle always seemed rather odd to everyone in their office, and her shifty behavior on dates gives credence to this. Turns out she wasn't being truthful about herself.
- Foreshadowing: Any dates with her will involving some form of prodding towards Niko's personal life, the player's choice for a date (she reacts negatively if you took her somewhere like a cabaret club), and if Roman might be recruited as a crook, or involved in criminal activities and he never once imply such as he's trying to avoid getting him involved in his affairs. Niko however doesn't pick up on it.
- Girl Next Door: She introduces herself as a soft-spoken woman from the Midwest who just moved to Liberty City. It's likely she used this cover identity to elicit more sympathy from Niko.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: The first time Niko meets her after The Reveal, she is shown smoking. This is in direct contrast to her earlier behavior.
- Honey Trap: She seems like a sweet, if awkward, young lady from the Midwest, just looking for someone to spend time with in Liberty City but her demeanor is likely just a cover for her true identity as an IAA agent.
- In Love with the Mark: She seems genuinely upset after she is forced to betray Niko, but quickly casts this off in time for Niko's first meeting with her boss.
- Karma Houdini: She never receives any retribution for betraying Niko, in this game or the next.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Implies this during the first date, coming off as a little desperate.
- Statuesque Stunner: The cutscenes show her to be roughly the same height as Niko, who is estimated to be around 5'11" - 6'2" according to a wanted poster.
- The Teetotaler: Doesn't get drunk when you go to bars. This takes on a more sinister tone when it is revealed that she was spying on Niko.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Disappears from the story after she introduces Niko to her mysterious employer. She returns in Grand Theft Auto V, where she makes an appearance as a high ranking IAA agent involved in interrogating a suspect, but she disappears once again.
Other Criminals
Malc and DeSean
Malc and DeSean
Malc
DeSean
Voiced by: Walter Mudu (Malc) and Craig "muMs" Grant (DeSean)
Leading members of the Uptown Riders, an outlaw motorcycle gang. They maintain close ties with Johnny and The Lost MC.
For tropes relating to Malc's appearance in Grand Theft Auto V, see his entry in this character sheet.
- Badass Biker: Both of them.
- Bash Brothers: Malc is this mostly with DeSean, but becomes this to Johnny after the race.
- A Friend in Need: Malc has gotten Johnny out of many a bind; most notably, he helps Johnny escape a botched drug deal after the latter's bike was destroyed. Johnny can likewise help Malc and DeSean take vengeance on some rival bikers who illegally shot at DeSean during a race.
- Friendly Rival: When no business is at hand, Malc and Johnny are either snarking at each other or trying to best each other in a race, but they both keep everything good-natured.
- Honor Is Fair Play: They are pragmatic when it comes to Dirty Business, but race against them, and they expect fair play. When DeSean asks Malc and Johnny to help him take revenge on a rival biker who shot at him during a race, Johnny points out that he was barely hurt. DeSean insists that It's the Principle of the Thing and that the rival should have used a bat as per race rules.
- Jive Turkey: See Soul Brotha below. Others outside their gang can understand them perfectly, but the slang they use occasionally leads to strange moments like when Malc calls Johnny, who is three years his senior, "son."
- Soul Brotha: In contrast to the Heavy Metal aesthetic in other biker gangs, the Uptown Riders are more entrenched in Hip-Hop culture and it shows in their manner of speech, Malc's flamboyant hairdo, and DeSean's Bulletproof Vest.
- Spirited Competitor: They operate primarily for the thrill of the race, and they mostly associate with other biker gangs to look for Worthy Opponents they can compete with.
Stubbs
Congressman Thomas Stubbs III
"I'm a politician, I'm a cynic, I'm very needy. I need people to like me. I need people to like me so that they elect me. I need people to elect me so that I feel marginally less bad about myself when I stare into the mirror."
Voiced by: John Lantz
A Liberty City congressman who has coerced Johnny Klebitz into committing heinous crimes on his behalf to further his career.
- Affably Evil: Always addresses Johnny in a courteous manner, with nary a hint of snobbery. He also proves himself a loyal friend to Johnny by tipping the latter off to Billy Grey's plans to testify against the Lost.
- At Least I Admit It: He doesn't bother trying to hide that he wants to further his career by any means necessary.
- Big Good: In TLaD, he's the closest character to being this, as he ultimately helps Johnny in taking down Billy in the end.
- Blackmail: A few of his jobs involve gathering dirt on his political rivals. One notable mission has Johnny stealing the Deputy Mayor's Infernus and having it fitted with a wire in order to out the man as a closeted homosexual. Yes, this is the same Infernus that Bernie Crane gives Niko Bellic in the main game.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Openly embraces being a corrupt official.
- Corrupt Politician: Par for the course in a GTA game, but Stubbs stoops pretty low, even for the series, when he hires Johnny to kill his uncle just so he can receive his inheritance and use it to fund his reelection.
- The Cynic: By his own admission.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He may be unapologetically corrupt, but he doesn't seem to think too highly of Billy Grey's decision to sell out the Lost.
- Evil Nephew: His first mission involves Johnny killing his uncle so he can inherit the family funds.
- False Flag Operation: His MO. He needs someone like Johnny to commit the violent crimes he needs carried out so that these can be attributed to terrorist attacks or to the recent rise in gang activity, and not, say, the House of Representatives.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed. He is corrupt, selfish and sleazy, but ultimately willing to help those who helped him back.
- Honor Among Thieves: He may have forced Johnny to commit acts of state terrorism on his behalf, but he always makes sure to repay the latter handsomely for a job well done. At the end of the game, he even informs Johnny of Billy Grey's plans to become a state witness, stating that he was "good for a favor."
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He wants the support of his constituents so that he can feel "marginally less bad about himself."
- Inheritance Murder: In his Establishing Character Moment, he instructs Johnny to assassinate his uncle in a manner reminiscent of a terrorist attack so he can appropriate the Stubbs family trust for use in his reelection campaign. He is completely nonchalant and completely naked as he gives these orders.
- It's All About Me: Almost all of his missions involve Johnny commiting a crime in order to help Stubbs further his political career.
- Naked First Impression: Johnny first meets him lounging about naked in the massage parlor of his favorite Smoky Gentlemen's Club. This scene sparked a fairly huge controversy when Lost was released due to the Male Frontal Nudity present therein.
- Odd Friendship: Calling it a friendship is pushing it a bit, but he and Johnny share a pretty cordial relationship for a Corrupt Politician and an outlaw biker. At least from Stubbs' perspective, he considers it friendship since Johnny saw him naked.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: Convinces Johnny to work for him by threatening to have The Lost's officers arrested and convicted of drug trafficking.
- Pet the Dog: Deeply corrupt as he is, he does shows loyalty to Johhny when he repays him for all his help by informing of Billy's plans to sell him and the Lost out to the authorities, telling him that he was "good for a favor".
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Fittingly for a politician, he dons a nice suit outside his house.
- Smoking Is Cool: His concept art shows him with a cigar in his left hand, and he's seen smoking one in the last mission (Though he's oddly holding it with his right hand instead).
The Cook
The Cook
- Voiced By: Dennis Paladino
A nameless kitchen cook who worked on the Platypus, the ship that brought Niko to Liberty City. Despite being an extra with no name, he sets in motion a chain of events that affect not only the main game's story, but its side-stories as well.
- Ascended Extra: He only appears for one moment during the main game's intro scene, and is only seen again during the expansion packs when he is trying to sell the diamonds off to Gay Tony.
- Decapitation Presentation: Ray Bulgarin takes his head and puts it in a box for Luis to see.
- No Name Given: His real name is never spoken.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He is a nobody on the grand scheme of things, but his diamonds' steal lures Bulgarin to Liberty City in search of Niko, causing Dimitri Rascalov to betray him and put the Mafia on his heel, sets the Lost MC against Ray Boccinno which leads to their complete destruction by the end of their story and also paint a target on Tony Prince and his assistant Luis. Had this cook not stolen from Bulgarin, their stories would have taken waaaay different paths.
- Too Dumb to Live: You'd have to be stupid in order to steal 2 million worth of diamonds from an Ax-Crazy Russian gangster like Bulgarin. And sure enough, he pays with his life. Messily.
Curtis Stocker
Curtis Stocker
Voiced by: T. Ryder Smith
A cannibalistic serial killer encountered by Johnny in The Lost and the Damned that finds himself in a prison bus full of white-collar criminals that he is supposed to release on Stubbs' orders.- Affably Evil: Much like the character that inspired him, he is very refined and cordial while speaking to Johnny even when the latter shows disgust at him for being a cannibal. He also sings a very cheery song while relishing his new found freedom.
- Expy: A very obvious one to Hannibal Lecter, being a cannibal with a sophisticated personality that even wears the same mask to prevent him from eating people.
- Karma Houdini: Curtis gets released alongside all the other criminals by Johnny and is never seen or heard from again.
- Noodle Incident: While we never see it, he apparently disemboweled a orderly during custody earlier.
- Slashed Throat: He kills a police officer by ripping his neck open with his teeth.
Girlfriends
Kiki Jenkins
Kiki Jenkins
Voiced by: Kim Howard
An idealistic lawyer at Goldberg, Linder, & Shyster who is planning to run for District Attorney. Niko meets her on Love-Meet, and can date her if he so desires.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Niko at one point confesses to her that he's an assassin. Her response? Blame society for his problems and continue to date him!
- Clingy Jealous Girl: If Niko is in a relationship with her and dates another girl or hires a prostitute, she'll send him threatening text messages and make angry, paranoid phone calls. If you go upstairs to the other girl's home, on rare occasions you will come out to your car (if you didn't use a taxi.) vandalized in various ways, such as having its hood or one of the doors removed, or having its tyres slashed.
- Dating Catwoman: Niko is a contract killer murdering his way across Liberty City's criminal underworld. Kiki is running for DA.
- Hello, Attorney!: She works as a lawyer and is attractive.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While she takes her jealousy too far, Kiki does have the right to be mad at Niko for cheating on her with other girlfriends and/or prostitutes.
- Society Is to Blame: Her belief in this trope is why she has exclusively represented (now-convicted) criminals in court. In-game, she can clear your Wanted Meter by using her connections with the current DA to threaten the cops with Police Brutality charges.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Kiki is very sympathetic and naive in nature, as she dated some of her clients, only for them to commit crimes again and be imprisoned.
- Yandere: If Niko dates Kiki while dating other girlfriends, after a while, she starts stalking Niko. On rare occasions, Kiki will appear in the cutscenes which precede entering venues when Niko is dating other women. She will shout various things, such as threatening to kill Niko's date, calling her derogatory terms as well as claiming that Niko is hers.
Alex Chilton
Alexandra "Alex" Chilton
Voiced by: Samantha Soule
A haughty socialite who runs a blog called "Liberated Woman." Niko meets her through a Craplist post, and can date her if he so desires.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Her attraction to Niko is based solely on him being a mysterious foreigner.
- Alpha Bitch: Egotistical and annoying as hell.
- Ambiguously Bi: She’s happy if Niko takes her to a strip club (all of which only have female strippers).
- And Your Reward Is A 50% Discount On Clothes: If you call her with a high enough relationship status, that is. The discount applies to all available shops in the city, but she'd prefer you use it at Perseus.
- Attention Whore: She apparently aspires to write books and movies about herself.
- Cassandra Truth: Niko flat out tells her that he kills people for a living. She doesn't buy it, forcing him to claim that he works for construction instead.
- Conspicuous Consumption: Her credit card is always maxed out because she insists on bying extremely expensive clothes.
- Dumb Blonde: Doesn't even know who Stalin is.
- Gold Digger: Her go-to method of advancing in life is sleeping with rich men for money or other benefits. On her blog, she mentions dating an old man with a prosthetic limb who has "more money than a third-world country" and how she reluctantly sleeps with him, despite his breath smelling like "dog shit".
- Home Porn Movie: If Niko goes on enough dates with her she will mention that she has made a video of her and Niko having sex.
- Hypocrite: Claims that she doesn't need any man to get her what she wants, even though her extravagant lifestyle is funded entirely by her father. When Niko points this out, she just says that her father doesn't count as a man because he's her daddy. After breaking up with Niko, she also claims that she's done fooling around and needs to start finding a rich man to marry her.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: If she's had a few to drink she states outright that she hates herself and isn't happy at all. Even without being drunk, she lets it slipped on a few occasion that she's deeply unhappy with being unable to get her life together, before backtracking and claiming that everything is fine.
- In Vino Veritas: Like most characters that you can take out for drinks, she's actually deeply unhappy and suffering from some serious self-loathing.
- Irony: For someone who's constantly on the lookout for a good story to prop up her floundering autobiography, she's pretty quick to dismiss Niko's confession about being a mob hitman as a joke. Poor girl caught gold with Niko but is too dense to see it.
- It's All About Me: Any given date between her and Niko mostly consists of her going off on tangents about how great she is, while Niko merely offers one-word responses every now and then. She's also writing a novel (after failing to make a movie) entirely about herself because she believes that her superior life will touch people.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Thinks she's this to Niko (whom she believes to work in construction), when in reality he lives a far more interesting life than her as a hitman for multiple crime syndicates. She sounds almost giddy upon hearing how mundane his job is, as if she's always wanted to be this trope to someone but all of the guys she's dated so far had a more interesting life than her. Due to the fact that she's writing an autobiography, it's highly likely that she believes being one in real life will help it sell better.
- Marriage of Convenience: Straight up asks Niko to marry her, not out of love, but because their marriage will add a marketable Uptown Girl arc into her autobiography. She also hopes to turn Niko into a media star, thinking that his story of going from a poor immigrant to marrying a rich girl will prove popular among the "border jumpers" of America.
- Motor Mouth: She doesn't shut up, ever.
- Nice to the Waiter: If Niko picks her up for a date in a cheap car she will mention that she bought the same car for her maid.
- Pet the Dog: She agrees to go out with Niko, even though he's by every indication just a poor immigrant (Gameplay and Story Segregation aside, Niko tells her that he works in construction and she makes frequent snide remarks about how poor he is on her blog). That being said, it's possible she plans from the start to go out with him only to make her autobiography better with the addition of an Uptown Girl love story.
- Really Gets Around: Started sleeping her way to the top since the age of 15, and continues to do it nowadays.
- Rich Bitch: Haughty, self-centered, vain beyond reason...
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: ...and also impossible to take seriously due to her sheer pretentionousness and Brainless Beauty.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She's confident that she will become someone important, like Stalin (too ignorant to realize that Niko compares her to Stalin as a Stealth Insult). The reality is that she's just a blogger nearing her 30s who's still smooching off her parents while constantly insulting one of them.
- Socialite: A pretty stereotypical one at that.
- Upper-Class Twit: A Spoiled Brat with a lot of self-importance and little intelligence.
Carmen Ortiz
Carmen Ortiz
Voiced by: Elan Luz Rivera
A lustful nurse currently dating Armando Torres, who has been in relationships with Luis Lopez, Henrique Bardas, and even Elizabeta Torres. Despite currently being in a relationship, she still lists herself as single on Love-Meet, where she meets Niko, who can date her if he so desires.
- Ambiguously Bi: Carmen will be happy if Niko takes her to a strip club (all of which only have female strippers) and in one cutscene can be seen dancing very suggestively with Elizabeta Torres.
- Brainless Beauty: Which makes you wonder how she got through med school to become a nurse.
- Fake Boobs: If Niko takes Carmen to a strip club she will mention that her silicon breasts are better than the ones the strippers have.
- Hospital Hottie: Works as a nurse, and is very damn good-looking.
- Meaningful Name: She shares her name with one of the most famous seductresses in literature which is appropriate given her sexual nature.
- The Medic: She can provide you with Regenerating Health if you call her once your relationship status is high enough.
- Parental Issues: Carmen mentions that her dad regularly berates her for her lifestyle.
- Really Gets Around: If Luis and Henrique are to be believed, she's slept with pretty much everyone in South Bohan at least once.Armando: Who hasn't had this piece of ass!?
- Self-Deprecation: Her nickname on Lovemeet.net (SoBoHoe) is short for "South Bohan Whore".
- Spicy Latina: She is a Hispanic woman who is very comfortable with her sexuality.Carmen (when playing pool with Niko): Let’s see how good you are with your stick.
- Third-Person Person: A big fan of this. In one instance, she even refers to herself as The Carmen.
Random Characters
Eddie Low
Edward "Eddie" Low
"Eddie never jokes. Eddie needs to be taken seriously."
Voiced by: Victor Verhaeghe
A serial killer and rapist prowling the streets of Alderney.
- Abusive Parents: His dad molested him and his mother beat him.
- Asshole Victim: Since he's a depraved serial killer and rapist who later attempts to kill Niko, you won't feel bad about filling him full of lead when you get the chance.
- Ax-Crazy: To the Nth degree. Much of his dialogue is littered with mentions of dismemberment, torture, sexual violence, bestiality, and more. You could almost see killing the guy as a Mercy Kill. Almost.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Had a record of animal cruelty as a kid and is also implied to sexually harass his own pet cat.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Aside from a number of very questionable situations with critters written in Eddie's blog, he's also rather curious about animal masturbation.
- Berserk Button: He flies off the handle when Niko tells him his behaviour is "not cool", apparently triggering some bad memories from his childhood.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He quickly realizes that Niko is a foreigner and correctly guesses that he’s from the Balkans which is especially notable given how other characters frequently confuse Niko for a Russian or a Pole.
- Cain and Abel: He killed his little brother by frying him in the oven and dumped his body in the pond.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Eddie doesn't bother to hide his insanity in the slightest, brags about his crimes on the internet and even outright taunts the authorities about how they fail to catch him.
- Creepy Blue Eyes: It's kind of hard to tell, but it's there.
- Creepy Child: He was an utter psychopath and a pervert since elementary school.
- Depraved Bisexual: And a whole list of other things.
- Disproportionate Retribution: When he's not killing people for fun, he flies into murderous rage over the smallest reasons, as when he killed a female clerk when she refused to "nurse" (breast-feed) him, or when he attacked Niko for simply calling him out on his creepiness.
- Enfant Terrible: Low started racking up a body count as a child, killing off three of his family members before targeting his classmates, and was also arrested for animal cruelty at the age of 9.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In his own words, he did love his mother and seems to like his mischievous cat, Boo Boo Wilkins.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He claims the victims in his bag are "heading off".
- Eddie never jokes, though, he needs to be taken seriously.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Has raped men, women, children, animals, bodyparts, corpses, dismembered corpses...
- For the Evulz: His primary reason for murdering people is this.
- Freudian Excuse: It's not much of an excuse, but Eddie's father did abuse and sexually harass him as a kid.
- Hate Sink: He's a deranged Serial Killer and a really Psychopathic Manchild who acts by his own impulses and has raped, tortured and murdered numerous victims of various genders, ages and species. Fortunately, you can kill him as you wish in his last mission.
- Hidden Depths: He makes his money by pickpocketing, something that requires subtlety and skill, neither of which Eddie displays on-screen. That would mean that Eddie, despite his strange behavior, is somewhat capable of blending in with the crowds and performing the necessary maneuvers for pickpocketing.
- Horrifying the Horror: Niko Bellic has witnessed humanity at its worst as a Child Soldier in The Yugoslav Wars, works freelance for the various criminal organizations in Liberty, and has a body count in the hundreds. This guy manages to disturb him.
- I Love the Dead: In his own words, he's had sex with with either tens or hundreds of people depending on if dead people count or not.
- Joggers Find Death: The vast majority of Eddie's most recent murders are joggers, which pops up on the in-game news often.
- Karmic Death: At the hands of Niko. Bonus points if you choose to get him gunned down by a cop.
- Karma Houdini: Only if you take his knife from him and then let him run away. You'll even get a message saying "Eddie Low is still out there, waiting...". Luckily this counts as 'failing' the encounter so you get to try again.
- A Love to Dismember: Eddie has a... relationship with his mother's severed breasts. He keeps them in a shoebox!
- Mugging the Monster: Trying to kill Niko didn't end well for him, to say the least...
- To wit, even if Niko doesn't directly kill him and instead the player lures him towards a nearby cop, rather than go through the usual arresting procedure, the cop empties his clip into Low on sight like he knows he's dealing with an exceptional piece of work and to make sure he's dead no matter how Niko's second encounter with him goes.
- Named After Somebody Famous: He shares the same name as Edward "Ned" Low, the English pirate from The Golden Age Of Piracy. And for a reason: Ned Low was an absolute fucking psychopath too, who regularly tortured his victims before killing them.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Eddie Low is partially based on David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz, New York City's most infamous serial killer during 1976-77.
- His extreme sexual deviancy, debatable grip on reality, and willingness to harm children evoke Albert Fish, another New York-based serial killer.
- Noodle Incident: Eddie's dialogue is peppered with these, mostly related to the torture Eddie inflicted on his victims.
- No Social Skills: His attempts at conversing with Niko range from discussing disturbing topics like animals masturbating or hearing people's screams, understandably creeping Niko out. When Niko calls him out for asking if he likes to be spanked, Eddie completely loses it.
- Only Sane Man: Eddie claims that his only problem is not accepting the world's "bullshit". He's way off on that one.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Behaves like a toddler, while being a serial killer.
- Red Baron: Averted, as police in Liberty City are reported to have trouble coming up with a nickname for him. Considering this is the GTA universe, they're of course more focused on that than actually catching him.
- Self-Made Orphan: He killed his dad for abusing him, but accidentally killed his mom by putting her head under sand.
- Serial Killer: Throughout the game we get to hear reports about new victims of the "Keep-fit killer" on the radio and on the internet.
- Slasher Smile: He's never seen without a creepy grin on his face.
- The Social Darwinist: He believes that people who practice footing are "Inferior filth" and have to be eliminated.
- The Sociopath: In the highest order possible. As you might expect from a violent Serial Killer, he has a need for stimulation, violent behavior, and a tendency to rationalize his behavior.
- Stalker with a Crush: Took a clerk saying the standard "have a nice day" to mean she liked him, followed her home and when she understandably freaked out about him wanting her to nurse him, killed her in anger and considered her a "whore."
- Talkative Loon: A serial killer who's happy to share the intimate details of his handiwork, among other things...
- Third-Person Person: Eddie sometimes slips into this.
- Villainous Breakdown: Though Eddie is by no means sane, he completely flips his shit when Niko says his way is not cool, gleefully ranting about two of his most brutal murders. Niko is utterly horrified.“Not cool? You say Eddie's not cool? I don't fit in with the in crowd? Well Mrs. Smith, Eddie's taken your star son, your prized little quarterback - and FUCKED him in the ass and then tied him up, strangled him into knots! And your daughter, your pretty little daughter, Mrs. Abrahams... Eddie's ripped out her intestines, just to see if he could feel anything. And you know what... he couldn't... he couldn't...”
- Villainous Crossdresser: Apparently Eddie likes to wear his mother's (and other women's) old clothes and underwear.
- Would Hurt a Child: He has commented having molested children in his first random encounter.
Jeff Harlingford
Jeff K. Harlingford
Voiced by: Harry Chase
A paranoid man who hires Niko to stalk his wife.
- Ax-Crazy: It's clear from his first encounter with Niko that he is completely insane.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: And how.
- Here We Go Again!: Defied. After he killed his wife, in his final encounter with Niko, he says that he started to date another woman... and soon asks Niko to kill her, which he immediately refuses.
- Hypocrite: If Niko kills Jeff's wife in their first encounter (whether he sends a picture to Jeff or not), Jeff has a My God, What Have I Done? moment as he believes he hired a psychopath who killed his wife. This is in spite the fact that if Niko just takes the picture as he is told to, Jeff kills his wife himself.
- Look Both Ways: Gets unceremoniously run down by a car during his final encounter with Niko.
- Nervous Wreck: Besides the homicidal tendencies, his jealously also makes he very impulsive and nervous.
- Talkative Loon: After killing his wife, he acts unhinged and talks like a madman when Niko meets up with him.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Mentions that he stabbed his wife over 50 times, and nearly shoots her corpse on top of that.
- Would Hit a Girl: Murders his wife because he believes she's cheating on him.
Marnie Allen
Marnie Allen
Voiced by: Reyna de Courcy
A junkie and prostitute that Niko encounters in Algonquin.
For tropes relating to her appearance in Grand Theft Auto V, see her entry in this character sheet.
- Broken Bird: She came to Liberty City seeking fame as an actress, only to be duped into filming porn and contracting a heroin habit.
- Drugs Are Bad: Her heroin habit forced her to take up prostitution and petty theft.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: She only became a prostitute to support her drug habit. Outside complaints about her withdrawal symptoms, she becomes quite friendly to Niko when she finds out he isn't interested in her services.
- As evidenced by the thank-you email she sends Niko if he helps her leave Liberty City, she is otherwise quite intelligent, getting on the fast track to becoming a psychologist.
- Street Walker: Her current profession.
Brian Meech
Brian Meech
Voiced by: Justin Reinsilber
A cocaine addict that Niko meets in Hove Beach.
- Break the Haughty: The first time he meets Niko he makes fun of his accent, then gives him $100 just to show off how rich he is. He's a lot more humble the second time they meet, when he's coming down hard from his high.
- Drugs Are Bad: Despite graduating from Vespucci University with the GTA-verse equivalent of an Ivy League education, he let cocaine ruin his life, even working as a crack whore at one point.
- Epiphany Therapy: He later joins a support group with a nine-step recovery program that encourages him to reach out to people he has wronged while high. Of course, the people he reaches out to aren't quite as friendly, and try to kill him.
- Nice Guy: While he starts out as a dickish addict, rehab completely turns him around and he begins trying to repay everyone he ever harmed (which he admits is an expensive process). He even gets engaged in the interim.
- Tropaholics Anonymous: By the time of his final meeting with Niko, his support group has helped him kick his cocaine habit and get engaged.
- The Stoner: He is high off his mind the first two times Niko meets him. He seems to have kicked his habit during their last meeting.
Pathos
Pathos
Voiced by: David Shaw
An amateur rapper selling self-published albums in Star Junction.
- Can't Take Criticism: He responds to his haters by sending Niko to kill them. To be fair, the haters shot at him first in a later instance.
- The Last DJ: He self-publishes socially conscious songs because record labels "are just pimps." Later subverted; he treats a grievous gunshot wound from an angry heckler as a marketing opportunity.
- Street Musician: Albeit one without an instrument.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Thinks he can affect the music industry selling his work on street corners. When he is shot by hecklers, he giddily expects a ton of street cred, and plans to use it as inspiration for a new album.
Margot
Margot
Voiced by: Sarah Clements
One of Luis's past flings. She is now stalking him in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
- Driven to Suicide: Margot ends up committing suicide by jumping off a balcony.
- Not Good with Rejection: Her defining attribute. She threatens to kill herself during both of her "chance" encounters with Luis in an attempt to get the latter to go out with her again.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: She believes that she and Luis share a deep personal connection, despite Luis's reputation as a womanizer (and the fact that they had one fling over a year ago) making this unlikely. Regardless, she tries to reconnect with Luis at the most inopportune moments and in the most inappropriate ways.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Luis manages to save her the first time she attempts suicide only for her to succeed on her second attempt.
- Spurned into Suicide: During her first reunion with Luis, she reveals that she had just taken a potential overdose of sleeping pills when Luis rejects her. Days after Luis manages to get her stomach pumped, he encounters her once more on a third story ledge, ready to leap to her death, should he reject her again. She goes through with it and successfully kills herself.
- Stalker with a Crush: She continues to send Luis emails and gifts long after their fling ended, and routinely camps out for him at his usual haunts.
- Suicide by Pills: Her first suicide attempt involves an overdose on sleeping pills.
- Taking You with Me: Before committing suicide she writes a letter blaming Luis for her death which causes bystanders to think that Margot did not kill herself but was killed by Luis. This causes the bystanders to gang up on Luis forcing him to either run away or kill them all. Not doing either will result in Luis being beaten to death.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Margot can end up being indirectly responsible for Luis killing several bystanders in self-defense.
Performers
Bluesy St. John
Bluesy St. John
Voiced by: Melody Sweets
A blues singer at the Cabaret Club who often talks/sings about questionable subject matter.
- Black Comedy: Her performances run on this, with songs and anecdotes about things such as abuse, kidnapping, drugs and a number of other things.
- Leg Focus: She has quite an impressive pair of legs that are highlighted by the camera.
The Incredible Kleinman
The Incredible Kleinman
Voiced by: Kurt Rhoads
A magician who performs regularly at the Cabaret Club.
- Boom, Headshot!: One of the acts sees him accidentally getting shot through the head and somehow surviving.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Each of his magic acts usually end with either him or his assistant getting maimed or fatally wounded.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He gets rather on edge sometimes at the thought of the stagehand being with his assistant, Laurel.
- Large Ham: He puts on a grandiose and dramatic performance, even gesticulating quite often.
- Made of Iron: He somehow manages to survive being shot in the head and continue performing afterwards.
- Stage Magician: The classic kind, performing magic tricks for the audience, although he's not as competent in it as he may appear...
