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 way in which to… Maccer! There are not any scarcity of loonies and leftists, and a few of the greatest characters aren’t all the time those you’d usually facet with and even get pleasure from, 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 desires 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 faux to be Madd Dogg’s supervisor’s chauffeur, simply so CJ might drive off a pier and drown the harmless bloke alongside along with his wench. Once we first truly see Madd Dogg, he’s trying 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 report.
Madd Dogg’s story is inspiring and he might be greater on this checklist if he made extra appearances and wasn’t made to be fully oblivious to the very fact CJ was chargeable for stealing his rhymes and drowning his supervisor. Positive, Dogg wasn’t instructed about what CJ did due to Loc, but it surely makes Dogg appear somewhat unimportant within the grand scheme of things- regardless that he’s fairly unimportant actually.
14. Barry “Huge Bear” Thorne
Huge 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 Huge Bear being made to clean a rest room and make it sparkle. Huge Bear dropped the Grove Avenue gang colours on account of heavy affect on medication, so moved in with B-Dup so he might get his repair. Nevertheless, in the direction of the climax of the sport within the mission “Beatdown on B-Dup”, Huge 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, Huge 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 desires to get clear. It is usually becoming to notice that the downfall of Grove Avenue is the downfall of Huge Bear, and Grove Avenue’s rise noticed the rising of Huge Bear-so in a manner he is a superb 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 desires CJ to wipe out his competitors throughout city, which features a sugar daddy who desires 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 realize their approval. Finally, CJ sneaks into Pleasure Domes in an effort 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 recreation. Perhaps it’s because he owns a strip membership and is a reminder of Kanye West. Regardless of the case perhaps, he undoubtedly 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 desirous about who this Berkley particular person 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 search out Zero hung from his underwear-so that’s simply how straightforward it’s to imagine 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 unhealthy. 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 data he shouldn’t must Berkley.
He is perhaps annoying and he may put CJ and the participant by means of irritating errands, however Zero is unquestionably one of the 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 admittedly only a lowly lonesome chap who deserves just a few loyal associates and perhaps some TLC from a lover.
11. Ken Rosenberg
Recent off… properly 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 question, 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 is perhaps working the on line casino, however he solutions to the crime bosses, significantly Salvatore Leone, who takes up presence in Ken’s workplace to remind Ken that he may 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 hectic 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 in an effort to really feel higher concerning the scenario he’s in. The very best factor about Ken in San Andreas is that he’s the person who’s on the middle of all of the drama occurring 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 not less than he reveals up on the finish of the sport within the Johnson household house 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 choose him up from the police station when he’s recent out of jail. From right here, Loc desires to get revenge on a person who tormented him whereas he was inside, so he asks CJ to hop on a bike 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 in an effort to nab the chance to steal the van with the sound system in it, however that gear wasn’t sufficient for Loc. Subsequent, he desires 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. Nevertheless, he’s nonetheless not fully glad as a result of he desires CJ to drown Madd Dogg’s supervisor as a result of he “blackballed” him and instructed him he was whack. As an alternative of understanding the reality behind the message, Loc insists that CJ maintain this 5’3 man in order that Loc can sleep simpler at evening. The very last thing Loc desires you to do after you’ve taken care of this enterprise, is to attend his get together in Grove Avenue so you possibly can take heed 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 instructed he sucks, so as an alternative of proving everybody incorrect by working laborious in an moral manner, 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 chargeable for his sufferer eager to take his personal life. Fortunately Madd Dogg does get his revenge on Loc and Madd Dogg wins a gold report, however none of that will be attainable if Loc wasn’t so dreadful and determined. Bear 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 unhealthy or good. So far as Loc in involved, he’s one of many greatest 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 no 1? Nicely, this can be a checklist of the most effective character, and that doesn’t imply no 1 is reserved for the protagonist. CJ abandoned his Grove Avenue homies in 1987 in order that he might stay 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 choices, however not 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 choices 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 development staff simply because they labelled Kendl with demeaning phrases. CJ can be susceptible 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 automobile he was valeting with medication, simply because he was a D.A.
Though CJ could be very loyal and also you because the participant can customise him in numerous methods with tats, hairstyles and you may make him skinny, muscular and overweight, he doesn’t seem to have defining persona outdoors of his GSF leanings. He might be greater on the checklist if he was extra pronounced and assorted in his methods, however alas he isn’t and has to accept quantity 9. Oh, and regardless that he bests Officer Tenpenny within the recreation, 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 will not be protected. Cesar is all the time keen to offer CJ assist when he requires it as properly, which is notable when CJ is monitoring down and photographing members of The Loco Syndicate, and scoping out Pier 69 in San Fierro.
Cesar might be greater on the checklist if he had a bit extra angle about him. There’s nothing incorrect along with his mostly-chill methods, however his loyalty and devotion doesn’t make him as engrossing as a few of these greater up on the checklist. Even so, it’s unbelievable that he’s as good as he’s and as keen to assist when CJ requires it. Maybe it will’ve been good if he was round when CJ was coping with mafia enterprise in Las Venturas, however he was doubtless 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 among the nicest guys in San Andreas, and his mild-mannered persona 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 properly.As soon as CJ bests Wu Zi in a race, he invitations you to satisfy 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. In a while, Wu Zi invitations you to his on line casino in Las Venturas, and when you’re there you manage an formidable 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 Residence 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 superb chief. He sits within the quantity 7 spot as a result of he’s undoubtedly worthy of the place, and he’s very likable and presents you with some pleasurable missions. He is perhaps a bit too laid again and chill, however he’s definitely one of many good ones in San Andreas and a strong ally CJ must be glad to have on his facet.
6. Melvin “Huge 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 among the greatest characters in San Andreas on account of how properly his character his fleshed out contemplating his intentions. Sure, Huge Smoke betrayed CJ because of the affect of medication and cash, which makes him a tragic character as properly, not like Officer Tenpenny who has a coronary heart of charcoal.
At first, Huge 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 visitors to destroy his automobile, however everybody in attendance made it house from the memorial on push bikes. Smoke would then issue into the early missions in San Andreas, like when he craved some rooster 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 beneath 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 medication and the cash, and that is what Officer Tenpenny influenced. When you can’t simply forgive Smoke for betraying GSF, he simply wished energy and energy is a corrupting power. At the very least CJ prayed and made peace with Huge Smoke finally as Smoke is a tragic determine who acquired swept up in malevolence, however finally his loyalties are fractured and fractious, and you may’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 persona 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 identified 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 house, 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 experience house on.
This introduction to Officer Tenpenny’s abhorrent remedy 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 Towards Avenue Hoodlums. Clearly Tenpenny thinks CJ is avenue trash and treats him as such all through San Andreas by making him do his soiled work. Tenpenny’s angle in the 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 undoubtedly be unhinged and aggravated.
There may be additionally the matter that he blackmailed and manipulated Huge 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 towards one another as a result of Tenpenny desires 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 essentially the most evil entity in San Andreas.
No shock why Tenpenny is excessive on the checklist then, he’s the last word unhealthy man in San Andreas and manipulates folks into getting what he desires. This implies he is among the greatest characters within the recreation from a writing and attitudinal standpoint, so because of this 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’t cope with these robberies with out Catalina nagging you the entire time, which is admittedly uncomfortable for CJ and for our ears, however she could be very entertaining to take heed to on the identical time. At one level she threatens to make testicle kebabs out of CJ’s genitals, which I assume 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 and not using a tongue” referred to as Claude, who treats her properly, a lot so actually 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 probably the greatest characters in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and totally 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 admittedly 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 highway 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 prepare. He all the time has good vibes and vitality, even when he doesn’t all the time make sense, or get that smoke out of CJ’s face.
The Fact is mostly a unbelievable character performed by the late Peter Fonda. He’s acquired a heavy Sixties vibe about him, and that coincides with the missions he offers CJ, and in flip that provides an exquisite layer of depth to San Andreas. The Fact is among the most likable characters within the recreation, and one of the chilled out too, so because of this 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 appeal. 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 approach to put it. What follows is loads of vulgarities which are only a crying with laughter pleasure to listen to popping out of Maccer’s mouth.
This countdown might 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 personal components, or his infatuation with a deceased former feminine Prime Minister of the UK, however the particulars could 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
And not using a shadow of a doubt (regardless that he’s a shadowy determine himself) Mike Toreno is the best possible 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 form of man you suppose you’ve found out, however he ensures you don’t know as a lot as you suppose you do about him, and that’s one of many the reason why he’s such an enchanting 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 Huge 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. Nevertheless, CJ receives an nameless cellphone name by unclear however insistent voice, who tells Carl to satisfy this supposed thriller particular person within the desert. As soon as there, Carl is instructed to hop right into a monster truck and to finish a checkpoint-laden course. Nonetheless none the wiser about who this particular person is, Carl reveals up, and out of nowhere Toreno sneaks up on him and CJ could be very shocked considering he’s seen a ghost and that Toreno ought to cap him proper then and there. Nevertheless, Toreno settles Carl down and CJ begins working for Toreno and interesting in his labeled CIA-style actions.
At first CJ groups with Cesar to steal a tanker, however quickly you’re keeping off a fleet of choppers, studying to fly (together with a few of the funniest and most-insistent calls within the recreation for those who postpone studying to fly), dashing onto the again of a airplane to set an explosive after which leaping from that airplane, utilizing a airplane to fly beneath radar detection to drop off provides, and assaulting a naval base to steal a Hydra jet. Toreno’s missions are the most effective in San Andreas collectively, and so they’re very ambitious-almost feeling like a Steel Gear Stable recreation 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 is perhaps a besuited and principally 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 most effective character in GTA: San Andreas, and no one ought to argue about that.
