Off the again of the highest 20 GTA: San Andreas missions checklist from September, it’s time to return to a different GTA: San Andreas countdown. This time, let’s have fun the varied personalities of San Andreas, from Grove Avenue’s resident homie and protagonist Carl “CJ” Johnson, all the best way to… Maccer! There are not any scarcity of loonies and leftists, and a few of the finest characters aren’t all the time those you’d sometimes facet with and even take pleasure in, however they keep burning in your reminiscence lengthy after the sport is over. So learn on and discover out the highest 15 characters!
15. Madd Dogg
You’ll be able to’t assist however really feel sorry for Madd Dogg. The primary time you hear about him is from OG Loc as a result of Loc needs CJ to steal Madd Dogg’s rhyme e book from his mansion. After CJ efficiently acquires the rhyme e book, Loc decides he hadn’t completed with messing up Madd Dogg’s profession, so implores CJ to steal a limousine and fake to be Madd Dogg’s supervisor’s chauffeur, simply so CJ may drive off a pier and drown the harmless bloke alongside together with his wench. After we first truly see Madd Dogg, he’s making an attempt to commit suicide as he’s staggering about on a roof, however when he decides to leap, CJ saves him and takes him to a close-by medical facility. From right here, Madd Dogg makes an enormous comeback, carries out his revenge on Loc, and finally ends up getting his first gold document.
Madd Dogg’s story is inspiring and he may very well be increased on this checklist if he made extra appearances and wasn’t made to be utterly oblivious to the actual fact CJ was answerable for stealing his rhymes and drowning his supervisor. Positive, Dogg wasn’t informed about what CJ did due to Loc, nevertheless it makes Dogg appear somewhat unimportant within the grand scheme of things- regardless that he’s fairly unimportant actually.
14. Barry “Massive Bear” Thorne
Massive Bear is a minor character in San Andreas, who we first see as a person slave for former Grove Avenue homeboy B-Dup. CJ and Ryder flip as much as B-Dup’s abode and discover Massive Bear being made to wash a bathroom and make it sparkle. Massive Bear dropped the Grove Avenue gang colours attributable to heavy affect on medicine, so moved in with B-Dup so he may get his repair. Nonetheless, in direction of the climax of the sport within the mission “Beatdown on B-Dup”, Massive Bear determined he had had sufficient of B-Dup telling him what to do, so he punches B-Dup to the bottom and guarantees to return to Grove Avenue in change for twenty bucks.
Regardless of his fleeting appearances, Massive Bear makes this checklist as a result of it’s comforting to know that he fought out of oppression from B-Dup and medicines and needs to get clear. It is usually becoming to notice that the downfall of Grove Avenue is the downfall of Massive Bear, and Grove Avenue’s rise noticed the rising of Massive Bear-so in a approach he is a good marker of progress for the Grove Avenue Households.
13. Jizzy B
Regardless of being named after male reproductive fluid, Jizzy B comes throughout extra like an irritating Kanye West-type. Jizzy is the proprietor of the Pleasure Domes Membership in San Fierro, and he’s additionally a pimp who needs CJ to wipe out his competitors throughout city, which features a sugar daddy who needs to cleanse one among Jizzy’s ladies of her demonic sins. Jizzy first involves CJ’s consideration as he’s a part of the Loco Syndicate, a drug-peddling group additionally together with T-Bone Mendez and Mike Toreno.
Jizzy performs it cool and appears laid again at first, however as his empire begins to crumble, so does he. It’s throughout CJ’s associations with Jizzy that he meets the opposite members of The Loco Syndicate, and undertakes missions to achieve their approval. In the end, CJ sneaks into Pleasure Domes with a purpose to take him out, and though Jizzy makes an attempt to make a vehicular escape, he’s gunned down by CJ.
Jizzy isn’t a very profound character, neither is he noble, however he does have a groove about him that makes him totally different from different characters within the sport. Possibly it is because he owns a strip membership and is a reminder of Kanye West. Regardless of the case perhaps, he positively has one thing additional about him.
12. Zero
Of all of the dorkiest dorks who ever dorked, Zero is a nerd you meet in San Fierro who owns an RC store, and he’s obsessive about somebody known as Berkley as a result of he’s ruining and toying with Zero’s life. When occupied with who this Berkley individual is, it’s straightforward to imagine it’s somebody like Toy Story’s Zurg due to how nerdy every part related to Zero is. At one level, CJ opens up a dresser to seek out Zero hung from his underwear-so that’s simply how straightforward it’s to consider that Zero is an A-grade nerd. Anyway, regardless that he’s an insecure determine, and encourages CJ to take part in a few of San Andreas’s worst mission, Zero isn’t all dangerous. Zero could be very tech-savvy, and he helps CJ throughout the heist mission at Caligula’s On line casino later within the game-even if CJ punches his lights out afterwards for revealing info he shouldn’t need to Berkley.
He could be annoying and he may put CJ and the participant via irritating errands, however Zero is unquestionably one of the crucial excellent personalities in San Andreas. Zero’s nerdy missions are fairly refreshingly totally different from something you play in San Andreas, however the man himself is absolutely only a lowly lonesome chap who deserves a couple of loyal associates and perhaps some TLC from a lover.
11. Ken Rosenberg
Contemporary off… nicely extra like drugged up from his bonkers ambulance-chasing look in Vice Metropolis, former lawyer Ken Rosenberg has now discovered himself disbarred from the regulation, deserted by Tommy Vercetti, and he’s a coke-head in want of rehab. Ken is an absolute mess little doubt, however this mess he’s in will get a complete lot worse when he finds himself the middle-man in a mafia-run on line casino in Las Venturas. Ken could be working the on line casino, however he solutions to the crime bosses, notably Salvatore Leone, who takes up presence in Ken’s workplace to remind Ken that he will be at his beck and name anytime he requires it. Ken can’t afford for anyone to get capped on his turf or he’ll get iced, so his nerve-racking predicament has ratcheted up immensely, and it’s as much as CJ to free Ken of his burdens.
Ken isn’t fairly as central to the story of San Andreas like he’s in Vice Metropolis, however in San Andreas, he’s in dire straits and is an absolute mess. Ken is all the time on edge and nonetheless snorts coke with a purpose to really feel higher concerning the state of affairs he’s in. The perfect factor about Ken in San Andreas is that he’s the person who’s on the heart of all of the drama happening in Las Venturas, which permits this portion of the sport to be super-interesting. It’s laborious to not want that we should always’ve seen Ken far prior to we did, however no less than he exhibits up on the finish of the sport within the Johnson household dwelling to have fun with all people.
10. Jeffrey Cross (OG Loc)
Most likely the most important phony in San Andreas, OG Loc is a wannabe gangster rapper who can be a member of the Grove Avenue Households. We first me Loc when CJ and associates decide him up from the police station when he’s recent out of jail. From right here, Loc needs to get revenge on a person who tormented him whereas he was inside, so he asks CJ to hop on a motorcycle with him to offer chase to this flamboyant fellow. As soon as revenge is exacted, Loc subsequent wished CJ to steal a sound system in order that Loc can rev up his ambitions of being a rapper.
CJ in fact needed to shuck and jive to the beat of Hollywood Swinging by Kool And The Gang for a nice woman DJ with a purpose to nab the chance to steal the van with the sound system in it, however that gear wasn’t sufficient for Loc. Subsequent, he needs you to steal Madd Dogg’s rhyme e book from his mansion within the Vinewood hills. CJ wastes no time going there to stealthily assassinate guards and pinching the all-important tome. Nonetheless, he’s nonetheless not utterly glad as a result of he needs CJ to drown Madd Dogg’s supervisor as a result of he “blackballed” him and informed him he was whack. As a substitute of understanding the reality behind the message, Loc insists that CJ handle this 5’3 man in order that Loc can sleep simpler at evening. The very last thing Loc needs you to do after you’ve taken care of this enterprise, is to attend his celebration in Grove Avenue so you possibly can hearken to his ear-bludgeoning rap music.
Loc is within the high 10 as a result of he’s such a memorable and pretentious moron. He can’t rap and he’s informed he sucks, so as an alternative of proving everybody mistaken by working laborious in an moral approach, he asks someone to steal another person’s laborious work, and but he nonetheless sucks at rapping. You can not really feel sorry for somebody who steals different’s work, after which changing into answerable for his sufferer eager to take his personal life. Fortunately Madd Dogg does get his revenge on Loc and Madd Dogg wins a gold document, however none of that might be attainable if Loc wasn’t so dreadful and determined. Keep in mind, this isn’t only a checklist comprised of the best-loved characters, it’s additionally a listing about these characters who made the most important impression whether or not that impression be dangerous or good. So far as Loc in involved, he’s one of many largest losers in San Andreas and that sticks with you greater than the rise, then fall, then rise once more of Madd Dogg — it’s a merciless checklist, however Loc is unquestionably a greater outlined character than Madd Dogg.
9. Carl “CJ” Johnson
What the F? Why is the protagonist at quantity 9 on this checklist, shouldn’t he be number one? Properly, it is a checklist of the perfect character, and that doesn’t imply number one is reserved for the protagonist. CJ abandoned his Grove Avenue homies in 1987 in order that he may reside in Liberty Metropolis and lay low for 5 years earlier than returning and getting a chunk of his brother Candy’s thoughts upon his return. CJ is unquestionably flawed and has made some terrible selections, however no less than he’s very loyal and does every part in his energy to revive the religion of his family members all through his adventures in San Andreas.
A few of these horrible selections embody serving to OG Loc by stealing Madd Dogg’s rhyme e book, the aforementioned abandoning of the Grove Avenue Households for Liberty Metropolis, betraying the belief of Salvatore Leone in Las Venturas, following C.R.A.S.H’s orders unquestionably, and murdering building staff simply because they labelled Kendl with demeaning phrases. CJ can be vulnerable to Catalina’s manipulative methods too as an alternative of leaving her as a result of she’s loopy. Additionally, let’s not neglect that he ratted on a D.A by loading the boot of a automotive he was valeting with medicine, simply because he was a D.A.
Though CJ could be very loyal and also you because the participant can customise him in varied methods with tats, hairstyles and you may make him skinny, muscular and overweight, he doesn’t seem to have defining character outdoors of his GSF leanings. He may very well be increased on the checklist if he was extra pronounced and assorted in his methods, however alas he’s not and has to accept quantity 9. Oh, and regardless that he bests Officer Tenpenny within the sport, he aint beating him on this checklist!
8. Cesar Vialpando
The nicest character in San Andreas, Cesar has a laid again disposition the second CJ meets him, even when CJ was initially aggressive about Cesar courting Carl’s sister Kendl. Cesar loves his lowriders and encourages CJ to race in each Los Santos and The Badlands, and afterward CJ participates in vehicle-procuring missions-so we all know precisely what makes Cesar tick-his rides. Cesar can be very loyal to Kendl and does every part he can to guard her from hazard, like getting Kendl out of Los Santos when the world shouldn’t be protected. Cesar is all the time prepared to offer CJ assist when he requires it as nicely, which is notable when CJ is monitoring down and photographing members of The Loco Syndicate, and scoping out Pier 69 in San Fierro.
Cesar may very well be increased on the checklist if he had a bit extra angle about him. There’s nothing mistaken together with his mostly-chill methods, however his loyalty and devotion doesn’t make him as engrossing as a few of these increased up on the checklist. Even so, it’s improbable that he’s as good as he’s and as prepared to assist when CJ requires it. Maybe it could’ve been good if he was round when CJ was coping with mafia enterprise in Las Venturas, however he was probably taking care of Kendl on the time, which is comprehensible. Cesar is a top-notch man and deserves to be counseled total.
7. Wu Zi Mu
Together with Cesar, Wu Zi Mu is without doubt one of the nicest guys in San Andreas, and his mild-mannered character could be very welcoming. You meet Wu Zi earlier than a race Cesar organizes in The Badlands, and he needs you luck within the race and he was a participant within the race as nicely.As soon as CJ bests Wu Zi in a race, he invitations you to fulfill him in San Fierro, the place CJ works for him alongside his gang The Mountain Cloud Boys to take out their rivals The Da Nang Boys. Memorable missions on this regard embody the mission Amphibious Assault, the place CJ should swim and plant bugs on boats, and a mission the place The Mountain Cloud Boys and CJ assault a container ship and rescue hostages. Afterward, Wu Zi invitations you to his on line casino in Las Venturas, and when you’re there you arrange an bold heist on Caligula’s On line casino by photographing blueprints, stealing police bikes, and pinching a key card by courting a feminine Caligula’s On line casino employee. Though Wu Zi’s posse helps you assault Vagos on high of Madd Dogg’s mansion throughout the Dwelling In The Hills mission, Wu Zi isn’t concerned within the final portion of the sport.
Regardless of his blindness, Wu Zi could be very succesful and is a good chief. He sits within the quantity 7 spot as a result of he’s positively worthy of the place, and he’s very likable and presents you with some fulfilling missions. He could be a bit too laid again and chill, however he’s actually one of many good ones in San Andreas and a strong ally CJ should be glad to have on his facet.
6. Melvin “Massive Smoke” Harris
He could by no means have eaten from a trash can and his quick meals orders are intensive, however this tub of blubber is without doubt one of the finest characters in San Andreas attributable to how nicely his character his fleshed out contemplating his intentions. Sure, Massive Smoke betrayed CJ because of the affect of medicine and cash, which makes him a tragic character as nicely, in contrast to Officer Tenpenny who has a coronary heart of charcoal.
At first, Massive Smoke arrives to greet CJ at his home, initially with a baseball bat as a result of Smoke thought there was an intruder in the home, however when he discovers it was CJ they hug it out. Smoke then takes CJ to Beverley Johnson’s funeral, and The Ballas come alongside as unwelcome company to destroy his automotive, however everybody in attendance made it dwelling from the memorial on push bikes. Smoke would then issue into the early missions in San Andreas, like when he craved some hen and ordered two quantity 9s, a quantity 9 giant, a quantity six with additional dip, a quantity 7, two quantity 45s, one with cheese, and a big soda. When The Ballas have been hassling GSF, Smoke selected to eat his meals up as an alternative of firing at them, which is a touch to the betrayal we might see formally below the Mulholland Intersection due to Cesar. Smoke would go on to forge his drug empire till the top of the sport the place CJ efficiently takes out Smoke (to not a restaurant this time), however not earlier than Smoke explains his betrayal.
Smoke doesn’t appear to be an evil man as a result of he was caught up within the medicine and the cash, and that is what Officer Tenpenny influenced. Whilst you can’t simply forgive Smoke for betraying GSF, he simply wished energy and energy is a corrupting pressure. At the very least CJ prayed and made peace with Massive Smoke finally as Smoke is a tragic determine who received swept up in malevolence, however finally his loyalties are fractured and fractious, and you’ll’t belief anyone like that. He’s excessive up on this checklist due to all of the memorable moments he’s concerned with, in addition to his characterization and character traits.
5. Officer Frank Tenpenny
Performed by Samuel L. Jackson, Officer Frank Tenpenny is a continuing thorn up CJ’s rectum as quickly as he returns from Los Santos. Tenpenny has recognized CJ for some time, seeing as Tenpenny asks CJ whether or not he’s forgotten about him and Pulaski since he moved to Liberty Metropolis. Tenpenny ensures CJ has no baggage to take with him to his household dwelling, and takes his cash believing it to be drug cash, then proceeds to throw CJ out of the Police Automotive he was arrested in and has to stroll round on Ballers’ turf earlier than stealing a bicycle to trip dwelling on.
This introduction to Officer Tenpenny’s abhorrent therapy of CJ is the tip of the iceberg, as CJ is made to work for Tenpenny and his “C.R.A.S.H” team-meaning Neighborhood Assets In opposition to Avenue Hoodlums. Clearly Tenpenny thinks CJ is road trash and treats him as such all through San Andreas by making him do his soiled work. Tenpenny’s angle in direction of Carl is usually aggressive, although typically he seems cheap and isn’t all the time offended. He does punch CJ within the abdomen in Las Venturas as a result of a file revealing Tenpenny’s abhorrent behaviour is threatening to complete his policing career-so Tenpenny can positively be unhinged and aggravated.
There may be additionally the matter that he blackmailed and manipulated Massive Smoke into betraying the Grove Avenue Households, which is a really sinister a part of the entire San Andreas storyline. Tenpenny is the poison that turned homies in opposition to one another as a result of Tenpenny needs the no-good gangsters off the road, however actually he’s a gangster mastermind in police clothes. He’s a crafty and malicious hypocrite, which in fact makes him the probably the most evil entity in San Andreas.
No shock why Tenpenny is excessive on the checklist then, he’s the final word dangerous man in San Andreas and manipulates folks into getting what he needs. This implies he is without doubt one of the finest characters within the sport from a writing and attitudinal standpoint, so that is why he’s quantity 5 on the checklist.
4. Catalina
The craziest most unhinged character in San Andreas by far is unquestionably Catalina. From the second you meet her in a bar threatening to knife hillbillies, she comes throughout as a lunatic. She encourages CJ to rob 4 targets inside The Badlands, and most worryingly of all, she accompanies you to each single theft. This in fact means you can not cope with these robberies with out Catalina nagging you the entire time, which is absolutely uncomfortable for CJ and for our ears, however she could be very entertaining to hearken to on the identical time. At one level she threatens to make testicle kebabs out of CJ’s genitals, which I suppose fits her to a tee as a result of she’s demented.
Catalina performs with CJ’s feelings too, pretending to be his lover as a result of the robberies they dedicated collectively turned her on. She does one thing very disturbing and presumably R-rated inside her ranch, and when CJ known as her a silly B phrase, she comes from behind him and holds a gun to his head. Fortunately, all of the emotional weirdness is ended when it’s revealed that Catalina doesn’t love CJ anymore, and has as an alternative discovered a “snake with out a tongue” often called Claude, who treats her nicely, a lot so in truth that CJ has to listen to about how a lot pleasure he offers her on the finish of the sport… yeah attempt to block this sentence out of your reminiscence.
So it’s with out query that Catalina could be very entertaining and monstrously strict and short-tempered. This certainly makes her the most effective characters in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and completely deserving of the quantity 4 rank.
3. The Fact
Time for somebody who’s just about the alternative of Catalina, The Fact is a mellow hippie and child boomer, who is absolutely fairly the pleasure to see in cutscenes whether or not he’s getting excessive with Officer Tenpenny to the tune of Nautilus by Bob James, or he’s chatting to you on a street journey to San Fierro. Throughout your dealings with The Fact, you drive a Mix Harvester, burn crops, steal a “Black Mission,” and gather up inexperienced goo from a practice. He all the time has good vibes and power, even when he doesn’t all the time make sense, or get that smoke out of CJ’s face.
The Fact is mostly a improbable character performed by the late Peter Fonda. He’s received a heavy Sixties vibe about him, and that coincides with the missions he offers CJ, and in flip that provides a beautiful layer of depth to San Andreas. The Fact is without doubt one of the most likable characters within the sport, and one of the crucial chilled out too, so that is why he’s to date up on this countdown.
2. Maccer
Some could not take to his crudeness and dirtiness, however Maccer is undoubtedly the funniest character in San Andreas. He’s revolting, however that’s a part of his ghastly allure. A Manchester-based lead singer of a band known as The Gurning Chimps, him and his supervisor Kent Paul discover themselves stranded within the desert up in Arco Del Oeste, and CJ is shipped to rescue them by The Fact. Maccer and Paul have been presumably unconscious and coming to when CJ arrives on the scene, and Maccer states he was dreaming of an intimate affair with a lady till he confirmed up… and that’s the well mannered and PG solution to put it. What follows is loads of vulgarities which might be only a crying with laughter pleasure to listen to popping out of Maccer’s mouth.
This countdown may go into extra particulars of what Maccer is concerned with in San Andreas, together with being tied to a board the place a knife nearly lands on his non-public components, or his infatuation with a deceased former feminine Prime Minister of the UK, however the particulars can be too graphic. Simply know that Maccer is vulgar however one of many funniest Rockstar Video games characters there ever was. And yeah he’s at quantity 2 on this countdown as a result of Maccer is nice at obliterating style and decency.
1. Mike Toreno
With no shadow of a doubt (regardless that he’s a shadowy determine himself) Mike Toreno is the very best character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. His participation within the story is essential, the missions you undertake really feel heavy and essential, and Toreno’s backstory and attract are second to none. Performed by James Woods, Mike Toreno is the type of man you assume you’ve discovered, however he ensures you don’t know as a lot as you assume you do about him, and that’s one of many explanation why he’s such an interesting character.
Toreno first comes into the story of San Andreas as a part of The Loco Syndicate, which is a bunch of drug pushers who make a cope with Massive Smoke’s empire. CJ is tasked with taking down Mike Toreno whereas he’s touring in his helicopter, and CJ proceeds to destroy the helicopter and we assume Toreno had perished with all people else on board. Nonetheless, CJ receives an nameless telephone name by unclear however insistent voice, who tells Carl to fulfill this supposed thriller particular person within the desert. As soon as there, Carl is informed to hop right into a monster truck and to finish a checkpoint-laden course. Nonetheless none the wiser about who this individual is, Carl exhibits up, and out of nowhere Toreno sneaks up on him and CJ could be very stunned pondering he’s seen a ghost and that Toreno ought to cap him proper then and there. Nonetheless, Toreno settles Carl down and CJ begins working for Toreno and fascinating in his labeled CIA-style actions.
At first CJ groups with Cesar to steal a tanker, however quickly you’re heading off a fleet of choppers, studying to fly (together with a few of the funniest and most-insistent calls within the sport when you delay studying to fly), rushing onto the again of a airplane to set an explosive after which leaping from that airplane, utilizing a airplane to fly under radar detection to drop off provides, and assaulting a naval base to steal a Hydra jet. Toreno’s missions are the perfect in San Andreas collectively, they usually’re very ambitious-almost feeling like a Metallic Gear Strong sport at factors.
Toreno himself is all the time to the purpose and doesn’t fiddle, save for when he decides to sneak up on Carl whereas he’s unaware. Toreno can be an essential determine for making certain CJ’s brother Candy is launched from jail too. He could be a besuited and largely no-nonsense man, however Toreno is the neatest and most-interesting character in San Andreas. Because of this he has earned the coveted spot as the perfect character in GTA: San Andreas, and no person ought to argue about that.
