Off the again of the prime 20 GTA: San Andreas missions listing from September, it’s time to return to a different GTA: San Andreas countdown. This time, let’s have a good time 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 among the finest characters aren’t at all times those you’ll 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 may’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 fake to be Madd Dogg’s supervisor’s chauffeur, simply so CJ might drive off a pier and drown the harmless bloke alongside together 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 may very well be greater on this listing if he made extra appearances and wasn’t made to be utterly oblivious to the very fact CJ was chargeable for stealing his rhymes and drowning his supervisor. Positive, Dogg wasn’t advised about what CJ did due to Loc, nevertheless it makes Dogg appear relatively 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 bathroom and make it sparkle. Huge Bear dropped the Grove Avenue gang colours as a result of heavy affect on medicine, 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 listing 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 method 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 desires CJ to wipe out his competitors throughout city, which features a sugar daddy who desires to cleanse certainly one of Jizzy’s women 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 so as 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. 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 excited about who this Berkley individual is, it’s straightforward to imagine it’s somebody like Toy Story’s Zurg due to how nerdy the whole lot 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 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 data he shouldn’t need to Berkley.
He is perhaps annoying and he may put CJ and the participant via irritating errands, however Zero is certainly one of the vital 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 de facto only a lowly lonesome chap who deserves just a few loyal mates 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 doubt, however this mess he’s in will get an entire lot worse when he finds himself the middle-man in a mafia-run on line casino in Las Venturas. Ken is perhaps operating 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 might be at his beck and name anytime he requires it. Ken can not 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 at all times on edge and nonetheless snorts coke so as 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 occurring in Las Venturas, which permits this portion of the sport to be super-interesting. It’s exhausting to not want that we should always’ve seen Ken far before we did, however not less than he reveals up on the finish of the sport within the Johnson household house to have a good time with all people.
10. Jeffrey Cross (OG Loc)
Most likely the largest phony in San Andreas, OG Loc is a wannabe gangster rapper who can also be a member of the Grove Avenue Households. We first me Loc when CJ and mates decide 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 after all needed to shuck and jive to the beat of Hollywood Swinging by Kool And The Gang for a nice woman DJ so as to nab the chance to steal the van with the sound system in it, however that tools 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 utterly happy as a result of he desires CJ to drown Madd Dogg’s supervisor as a result of he “blackballed” him and advised him he was whack. As a substitute of understanding the reality behind the message, Loc insists that CJ care for this 5’3 man in order that Loc can sleep simpler at night time. 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 may take heed to his ear-bludgeoning rap music.
Loc is within the prime 10 as a result of he’s such a memorable and pretentious moron. He can not rap and he’s advised he sucks, so as an alternative of proving everybody fallacious by working exhausting in an moral method, he asks anyone to steal another person’s exhausting work, and but he nonetheless sucks at rapping. You can’t 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 potential if Loc wasn’t so dreadful and determined. Bear in mind, this isn’t only a listing comprised of the best-loved characters, it’s additionally a listing about these characters who made the largest impression whether or not that impression be dangerous 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 listing, however Loc is certainly a greater outlined character than Madd Dogg.
9. Carl “CJ” Johnson
What the F? Why is the protagonist at quantity 9 on this listing, shouldn’t he be no 1? Properly, it is a listing 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 certainly flawed and has made some terrible choices, however not less than he’s very loyal and does the whole lot in his energy to revive the religion of his family members all through his adventures in San Andreas.
A few of these horrible choices embrace 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 employees simply because they labelled Kendl with demeaning phrases. CJ can also 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 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 can also make him skinny, muscular and overweight, he doesn’t seem to have defining character exterior of his GSF leanings. He may very well be greater on the listing 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 recreation, he aint beating him on this listing!
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 also be very loyal to Kendl and does the whole lot he can to guard her from hazard, like getting Kendl out of Los Santos when the realm will not be protected. Cesar is at all times 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 may very well be greater on the listing if he had a bit extra perspective about him. There’s nothing fallacious together 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 listing. Even so, it’s implausible that he’s as good as he’s and as keen to help 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 seemingly taking care of Kendl on the time, which is comprehensible. Cesar is a top-notch man and deserves to be recommended general.
7. Wu Zi Mu
Together with Cesar, Wu Zi Mu is likely 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 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 embrace 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 set up 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 prime 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 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 satisfying 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 should be glad to have on his facet.
6. Melvin “Huge Smoke” Harris
He might by no means have eaten from a trash can and his quick meals orders are in depth, however this tub of blubber is likely one of the finest characters in San Andreas as a result of how properly his character his fleshed out contemplating his intentions. Sure, Huge Smoke betrayed CJ as a result of affect of medication and cash, which makes him a tragic character as properly, in contrast to 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 friends 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 massive, a quantity six with additional dip, a quantity 7, two quantity 45s, one with cheese, and a big soda. When The Ballas had 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’d see formally underneath 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. When you can’t simply forgive Smoke for betraying GSF, he simply wished energy and energy is a corrupting pressure. At the 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’ll’t belief anyone like that. He’s excessive up on this listing 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 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 journey 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 Group 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 perspective in the direction of Carl is usually aggressive, although typically he seems cheap and isn’t at all times indignant. 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 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 in opposition to 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 after all makes him the probably the most evil entity in San Andreas.
No shock why Tenpenny is excessive on the listing then, he’s the last word dangerous man in San Andreas and manipulates individuals into getting what he desires. This implies he is likely one of the finest characters within the recreation from a writing and attitudinal standpoint, so for this reason he’s quantity 5 on the listing.
4. Catalina
The craziest most unhinged character in San Andreas by far is certainly 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 after all means you can’t deal with these robberies with out Catalina nagging you the entire time, which is de facto 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 with out a tongue” referred to as Claude, who treats her properly, a lot so in truth that CJ has to listen to about how a lot pleasure he provides 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 among the best 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 de facto 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 Challenge,” and accumulate up inexperienced goo from a prepare. He at all times has good vibes and vitality, even when he doesn’t at all times make sense, or get that smoke out of CJ’s face.
The Fact is mostly a implausible character performed by the late Peter Fonda. He’s acquired a heavy Sixties vibe about him, and that coincides with the missions he provides CJ, and in flip that provides an exquisite layer of depth to San Andreas. The Fact is likely one of the most likable characters within the recreation, and one of the vital chilled out too, so for this reason he’s to this point up on this countdown.
2. Maccer
Some might 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 attraction. 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 distributed to rescue them by The Fact. Maccer and Paul had 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 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 non-public 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
With no 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 necessary, 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 assume you’ve found out, however he ensures you don’t know as a lot as you assume you do about him, and that’s one of many the 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 take care of 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 advised to hop right into a monster truck and to finish a checkpoint-laden course. Nonetheless none the wiser about who this individual is, Carl reveals up, and out of nowhere Toreno sneaks up on him and CJ could be very shocked pondering 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 categorised 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 among the funniest and most-insistent calls within the recreation in the event you delay 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 under 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, they usually’re very ambitious-almost feeling like a Metallic Gear Stable recreation at factors.
Toreno himself is at all times to the purpose and doesn’t fiddle, save for when he decides to sneak up on Carl whereas he’s unaware. Toreno can also be an necessary determine for guaranteeing 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. That is why he has earned the coveted spot as the most effective character in GTA: San Andreas, and no person ought to argue about that.
