
Liberty City's bomb maker, working through bandaged hands and supplying anybody who can pay. Freed from the same prison transport as Claude and the first friendly face in the story.
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Liberty City's bomb maker, working through bandaged hands and supplying anybody who can pay. Freed from the same prison transport as Claude and the first friendly face in the story.

An intelligence handler of unstated allegiance who supplies crews with military hardware and never quite explains on whose behalf.
An Irish associate of Derrick McReary's from the old country, and one of the three men Derrick needs dealt with before they deal with him.
One half of the pair who run London's underworld in both expansions, and the half who does the thinking. He is the voice giving the protagonist his instructions, and the war with Harold Cartwright and Jack Parkinson is the length of the story.
Umberto's father, who has run the family cafe in Little Havana since the fifties and holds the room while his son runs a gang out of it.
Congressman Shrub
A congressman campaigning against pornography while keeping a penthouse with the city's best-known adult film star. Tommy Vercetti photographs the arrangement, and the photographs end the campaign.
A Middle Park East heiress who blogs her own life in detail, and one of the four women Niko can date.

Michael's wife, a former dancer who took to Rockford Hills far more comfortably than he did. The marriage runs on spending, tennis coaches and open contempt in both directions.
A low-ranking Russian working Hove Beach for Dimitri Rascalov, and the man sent to bring the Bellic cousins in.
Jimmy Pegorino's wife, and the only person in Alderney willing to tell him what his ambitions are costing him.
A founding member of The Lost who has not ridden since the accident that put him in a wheelchair, and who runs the club's bike thefts from it.
Mikhail and Ilyena Faustin's daughter, whose choice of boyfriend her father settles by having him killed.
Jimmy Pegorino's bodyguard and adopted son, who wears a wire and does not live long enough to testify.

Gay Tony
Liberty City's best-known club owner, whose two venues are propped up by loans from people he should never have borrowed from.
Albert's brother and the other half of the operation — the muscle where Albert is the planning. The two are inseparable in both expansions and are hired from as one.

The elder of the two brothers running Vice City's cocaine trade from a fortified mansion, and the more openly violent of them.

A friend of Luis's from Northwood who never left the corner they grew up on, and keeps trying to pull Luis back onto it.

Johnny's on-and-off partner, whose debts and habits keep arriving as his problems.

The Yakuza's head in Liberty City, colder and considerably more capable than her brother, and the employer Claude does his Staunton Island work for.

The head of the Haitian community and the one figure in Vice City who gets Tommy to do exactly as he is told without ever raising her voice.

A property developer who explains his method to anybody who will listen: buy cheap, make the neighbourhood unliveable, buy the rest cheaper.
A technology billionaire whose plan for the country is run by the artificial intelligence he built to have it, and who is entirely comfortable with that.

A former Grove Street member who left the set for the trade that is destroying it, and does very well out of the decision.
Miss Management
An English talent manager whose client list has run from a talking dog to Phil Collins, and who hires Victor Vance for the parts of the job a manager cannot do himself.

Florian Cravic
A friend from Niko's old unit who reinvented himself entirely in Liberty City, and had nothing to do with the betrayal Niko came looking for.

A paparazzo who recruits Franklin as a driver and treats celebrity harassment as a craft with standards.

A Grove Street member the crack trade takes apart in front of everybody, and the clearest evidence of what Smoke's business is doing to the neighbourhood.

The president of Vice City's biker chapter, who will not lift a finger for anybody who has not first done something for the club.
Head of the Rednecks, who run pickups out of a trailer park in the Residential District and are the least corporate outfit in a city otherwise carved up by a conglomerate.

President of The Lost's Alderney chapter, out of court-ordered rehab and determined to undo every truce Johnny made while he was gone.
A retired Vice City Mambas tight end who went into business, bought Sunshine Autos, put his own name over the door and then sold it on to Tommy Vercetti.
Robert Jefferson
A former Secretary of Security Enforcement whose speech on foreign gangs is worth a Gambetti escort to hear delivered.

A Vice City name who made the crossing from the street to the balance sheet and never lets anybody forget either half of it. His holdings run to property, a club and a recording studio.

The third man on the North Yankton crew, and the reason Michael and Trevor spend the next nine years believing very different things about what happened there.

A survivor of the Keys smuggling era who still moves product through his boat yard, with his third wife Lori alongside him. Jason has a roof from him, and the rent is paid in favours.
A Lost member loyal to Billy Grey rather than to the club, who takes a faction with him when the two halves stop pretending.
A university-educated banker whose crack habit has taken everything else, and who keeps finding Niko rather than the other way round.

A street-racing promoter with a steroid habit, a helicopter and an unshakeable belief that he is the most impressive man in any room.
A buyer working his way into the Vances' operation, and an undercover federal agent doing it — which Victor finds out later than he should.
The mob boss the original game's Liberty City work comes from — a voice on a payphone with a rap sheet running to murder, robbery and extortion, and the man who eventually puts the player on a flight out to the next city.
Another of Derrick McReary's old associates, and another name on the same list.

Cal keeps to himself with a scanner tuned to Coast Guard traffic and a drink within reach. He is content at the bottom of the map and would happily stay there. The trouble is that Jason is not.
Klepto Cam
A safecracker with a business of his own and a compulsion that keeps putting him back in a cell. Tommy Vercetti takes him out of one to open a bank.

Candice Shand
Vice City's best-known adult film star, and the studio's most reliable asset once Tommy owns it.

Home in Los Santos after five years in Liberty City for his mother's funeral, and stopped by the same two police officers who drove him out. Rebuilding the family's standing turns into rebuilding most of the state's.
A pizza delivery man killed on a contract placed with Mr. Black, for a reason the game never gives.
A Bohan nurse who dispenses medical advice online with rather more confidence than qualification.

Shoots her partner on the steps of the bank they have just robbed and spends the rest of GTA III trading up through Liberty City's organisations. San Andreas, set five years earlier, shows her doing the same thing to somebody else.
Wayne
The head of Liberty City's bikers, billed by the nickname rather than the name, and dealing out of the gang the same way the families deal out of theirs.

Kendl's partner and the leader of the Varrios Los Aztecas, distrusted by Carl on sight and the first person to tell him the truth about Smoke and Ryder.

Hsin's son, who expects to inherit the organisation and has done nothing to earn it beyond being born into it.
Dwayne Forge's former girlfriend, found in an arcade with the man who informed on him, and spared or shot at the player's discretion.

Lamar's Rottweiler, more often in Franklin's care than in Lamar's, and the best tracker either of them has access to.
The Colombian Cartel's man in Liberty City, and one of the factions Mike ends up working for while looking for the people behind the bombing.
A dealer running his own set out of an East Holland housing project, and the name Francis McReary wants taken off the street.

Left for dead by his partner during a bank job and freed from a prison transport by an explosion he had nothing to do with. Says nothing at all for the length of the story and works his way through every organisation in Liberty City regardless.
The protagonist of Grand Theft Auto 2, named by the game's own live-action promotional film rather than by anything in its missions. He works every gang in all three of Anywhere City's districts, which is the point of the game: standing gained with one is standing lost with its rivals. Nothing in the series connects him to Grand Theft Auto III's Claude.

A long-serving member of The Lost who keeps the chapter's bikes running and its arguments from becoming permanent.
A senior man in Vice City's biker chapter, and one of the two racers Big Mitch Baker puts up against Tommy Vercetti to find out whether he is worth the club's time.