History Characters / GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories

* ActionMom: She has a baby daughter.

[[folder: Barry Mickelthwaite]]

[[folder:Bryan Forbes]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Daniel Oreskes

An insider who employs Victor and Lance about the incoming drug shipments to the city. He turns out to be an undercover DEA agent.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Lance wanted Forbes alive so he would be able to give them the correct information about the drug shipments, however, he was already killed by Vic for tricking them twice and attempting to escape.
* CoolCar: He drives a Stinger, which is also a ShoutOut to Series/MiamiVice.
* DirtyCoward: After he gets exposed, he attempts to flee in a car loaded with money in its trunk.
* {{Expy}}: He is pretty much an evil version of [[Series/MiamiVice Sonny Crockett]].
* TheMole: He is an undercover DEA agent.
* LuredIntoATrap: He tricks Vic and Lance twice by giving them false information regarding the incoming drug shipments so they would fall into their deaths and he would be able to escape.
* UndercoverCopReveal: Lance exposes him as an undercover DEA agent.

[[folder:Phil Collins]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Music/PhilCollins

Yes, ''that'' Music/PhilCollins. An international music sensation, Phil's been in a spot of trouble lately, as his incompetent manager has borrowed an enormous sum of money from a powerful criminal. Victor is contacted to be a bodyguard to the star, and does so for several missions.

* AscendedFanboy: As noted on his creator page, Phil is a huge fan of gaming, Grand Theft Auto in particular.
* CelebrityCameo: Obviously. He appears as the subject of several [[EscortMission escort missions]].
* EscortMission: In all of the missions that involve Phil Collins, Victor must protect him from being assassinated by the Forellis.
** In ''Kill Phil'', Victor must protect him from Forelli hitmen not long after he arrived in Vice City.
** In ''Kill Phil: Part 2'', Victor must clear the stadium from Forelli hitmen before he arrives there.
** In ''In the Air Tonight'', Victor must prevent the Forelli hitmen from sabogating the lighting rigs during his concert.

[[folder: Barry Mickelthwaite]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Timothy Spall

Phil Collins' talent manager.

* BigBadWannabe: Marty is the leader of a small time gang and thinks he's a threat to Victor and his relationship with Louise. He wouldn't be out of place as an antagonist in a story revolving around domestic abuse, Marty is a small fish in a big pond, as Victor gets involved with more powerful and influential criminals. Being one of the early antagonists dealt with in the game, doesn't help.

* BigBadWannabe: Mary is the leader of a small time gang and thinks he's a threat to Victor and his relationship with Louise. He wouldn't be out of place as an antagonist in a story revolving around domestic abuse, Marty is a small fish in a big pond, as Victor gets involved with more powerful and influential criminals. Being one of the early antagonists dealt with in the game, doesn't help.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Uses Vic's need for money to provide for his family to manipulate him into doing dubious jobs for him and then discards of him [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once he has no further use for him]].]]

* {{Expy}}: An incredibly sociopathic, sadistic, corrupt official who appears in the game's first mission, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishing himself as the scum that he really is]] and striving to make the protagonist's life as difficult as possible. Are we talking about Jerry Martinez or [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas Frank Tenpenny]]?

* {{Expy}}: An incredibly sociopathic, sadistic, corrupt official who appears in the game's first mission, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishing himself as the scum that he ''really'' is]] and striving to make the protagonist's life as difficult as possible. Are we talking about Jerry Martinez or [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas Frank Tenpenny]]?

* {{Expy}}: Are we talking about Jerry Martinez or Frank Tenpenny? An incredibly sociopathic, sadistic, corrupt official who appears in the game's first mission, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishing himself as the scum that he ''really'' is]] and striving to make the protagonist's life as difficult as possible. Are we talking about Jerry Martinez or [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas Frank Tenpenny]]?

* BigBadDuumvirate: With the Mendez Brothers.

* BigBadDuumvirate: With Jerry Martinez.

* JerkAss: Diego is rather harsh in his interactions with Vic. Armando is more sociable, but he's still rotten to the core.

* CelebrityCameo: Obviously. He appears as the subject of several escort missions.

* AxCrazy: Armando Mendez before his death. He brutally kills Louise, and tries to burn Vic to death with a flamethrower while shouting comments like: "I want his head!"

* JerkAss: Both of them but especially [[FauxAffablyEvil Armando]].

* WouldHitAGirl: Armando kidnapped and fatally injured Vic's love interest, Louise.

While ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'' features several characters from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', there are several characters who exclusively appear in the game.

!Trailer Park Mafia
[[folder:Marty Jay Williams]]
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Louise's abusive husband and leader of the Trailer Park Mafia.

* AbusiveParents: In addition to his abuse on Louise, Marty even threatens to ''beat down on their baby daughter!''
* TheAlcoholic: When he's not abusing his wife, Marty spends most of his free time drinking with his buddies.
* AssholeVictim: No one would miss him after he gets gunned down by Vic in the beginning of the story, thus weakening the Trailer Park Mafia.
* BaldOfEvil: The "evil" part comes mostly from his abusive ways.
* DomesticAbuse: He's verbally and physically abusive towards Louise.
* HateSink: His whole character revolves around how much of an abusive prick he is to make killing him in the beginning all the more satisfying.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's an unpleasant redneck with no redeeming traits at all.
* LeanAndMean: Very slender and extremely unpleasant at the same time.
* ObviouslyEvil: His abuse on his wife doesn't have a single lick of subtlety.
* StarterVillain: He gives Vic missions early on; however, when Marty kidnaps Louise to whore her out in his brothel, Vic kills Marty.
* WouldHitAGirl: Marty never hides his abuse on Louise and even threatens to beat her sister as well.
* WouldHurtAChild: He flat-out states he would ''beat on his infant child'' [[DisproportionateRetribution just for Louise using her as an excuse to not clean up]]. One could only imagine the traumatic abuse Mary-Beth would go through in childhood had Marty stayed and lived.

[[folder:Louise Cassidy-Willams]]
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Phil Cassidy's younger sister.

* ActionMom: She has a baby daughter.
* DomesticAbuse: Suffers psychological and most likely physical abuse from her husband. Poor woman.
* LoveInterest: For Vic, after her husband's betrayal and death.
* MistakenForCheating: At one point, Vic accused her cheating with Lance. She's not, but [[FromBadToWorse she's consuming Lance's drugs at the time]].
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her exercise outfit is part pink, and her fur jacket is all pink.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a fur jacket in the later half of the game.
* RapeAsDrama: Martinez rapes and nearly kills her as his first revenge for Vic and Lance crossing him.
* TooDumbToLive: What did she really expect was going to happen to her when she attempted to take on Martinez and his goons all on her own?
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: How she ever got married to an abusive, drunk redneck to begin with is an enigma.

!Mendez Cartel
[[folder:The Mendez Brothers]]
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The Mendez brothers are Vice City's biggest drug cartel in 1984 consisting of Armando and his brother Diego Mendez.

* AxCrazy: Armando Mendez before his death. He brutally kills Louise, and tries to burn Vic to death with a flamethrower while shouting comments like: "I want his head!"
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Jerry Martinez.
* BullyingADragon: They really should not have kidnapped and murdered Louise. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge It ends with Vic killing both of them and wiping out their entire empire]].
* BilingualBonus: Diego speaks exclusively in Spanish. To the point that when Vic interacts with him, he calls Armando to speak for him as [[LanguageBarrier Diego doesn't speak English]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Armando makes a big show of acting friendly, but it doesn't fool anybody.
* JerkAss: Both of them but especially [[FauxAffablyEvil Armando]].
* ManipulativeBastard: The pair force Vic to do their dirty work for them under threat of death. At one point, after the DEA has busted the Mendez’s coke, Armando happily informs Vic that he told the police the coke belonged to him, forcing Victor to dispose of the drugs or be arrested.
* SiblingTeam: A pair of twin brothers that run the most powerful drug cartel in Vice City together.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: In a glamorous setting like Vice City, the brothers stand out for their viciousness.
* WouldHitAGirl: Armando kidnapped and fatally injured Vic's love interest, Louise.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: They pull this on Vic and Lance by trying to force them to hand over all their businesses and leave town, and trying to have them killed when they refuse. Lance even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.

!Other Characters
[[folder:Bryan Forbes]]
An insider who employs Victor and Lance about the incoming drug shipments to the city. He turns out to be an undercover DEA agent.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Lance wanted Forbes alive so he would be able to give them the correct information about the drug shipments, however, he was already killed by Vic for tricking them twice and attempting to escape.
* CoolCar: He drives a Stinger, which is also a ShoutOut to Series/MiamiVice.
* DirtyCoward: After he gets exposed, he attempts to flee in a car loaded with money in its trunk.
* {{Expy}}: He is pretty much an evil version of [[Series/MiamiVice Sonny Crockett]].
* TheMole: He is an undercover DEA agent.
* LuredIntoATrap: He tricks Vic and Lance twice by giving them false information regarding the incoming drug shipments so they would fall into their deaths and he would be able to escape.
* UndercoverCopReveal: Lance exposes him as an undercover DEA agent.

[[folder:Phil Collins]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Music/PhilCollins

Yes, ''that'' Music/PhilCollins. An international music sensation, Phil's been in a spot of trouble lately, as his incompetent manager has borrowed an enormous sum of money from a powerful criminal. Victor is contacted to be a bodyguard to the star, and does so for several missions.

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!!Victor Vance (Vice City Stories)
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* AntiHero - Victor starts out as probably the most heroic of all III-continuity protagonists. He sure doesn't end that way.
* AlliterativeName
* BaldOfAwesome
* TheComicallySerious
* DoomedByCanon
* FallenHero: You can count just how much he lampshades this throughout the game's story.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Lance's foolish sibling.
* TheFettered
* ItsPersonal: To Martinez.
** SpitefulSpit: Spits on Martinez corpse after he kills him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Probably the least villainous protagonist of GTA series.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: All he wants throughout the game is gathering money for medication of his sick, unseen, third brother, Pete Vance. And.... well, you may say he is this for Lance, too, since despite how mess Lance is and how often Vic is irritated on him, Vic never kills him and always protects him in various missions.
* MommyIssues: He and Lance don't get along with their drug addict mother, Janet. As such, she steals their drug and fled with her boyfriend in the middle of story, and she never returns.
* SiblingTeam: with Lance, despite [[TheScrappy the latter's antics]].
* UniversalDriversLicense

!!The Mendez Brothers (Vice City Stories)
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* AxCrazy: Armando Mendez before his death. He brutally killed Louise, and willing at all costs to kill Vic with a flamethrower, and in one of his comments he said: "I want his head!"
* BigBad
* BigBadDuumvirate: with Jerry Martinez.
* {{Jerkass}}: {{Understatement}}.
* BullyingADragon / EvilIsPetty: Try to force Vic and Lance to give their bussiness to them, and then try to have them killed when they refuse.
* ManipulativeBastard
* SiblingTeam / TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: to Vance brothers.

!!Louise Cassidy-Willams
* [[DarkActiongirl Dark]] ActionMom: She has a baby daughter.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:If it's any concelation, Victor dies at the begining of ''Vice City'', [[TogetherInDeath So]]...]]
* LoveInterest: for Vic, after her husband's betrayal and death.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her exercise outfit is part pink, and her fur jacket is all pink.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a fur jacket in the later half of the game.
* RapeAsDrama: Martinez rapes and nearly kills her as his first revenge for Vic and Lance crossing him.
* StarCrossedLovers: to Vic after [[spoiler:she's killed by Armando Mendez.]]
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Her fate before the end of ''Vice City Stories''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse
--> '''Louise''': [[spoiler: We could have had somthing special.]]
--> '''Victor''': [[spoiler: Yeah...no. We did have somthing special.]]
* WidowWoman: after her husband's death.

!!Jerry Martinez (Vice City Stories)
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* BerserkButton: Don`t call him an asshole.
* BigBad
* BigBadDuumvirate: With the Mendez Brothers.
* ConflictKiller
* FaceHeelTurn
* HookersAndBlow
* IShallTauntYou
* {{Jerkass}}
* ManipulativeBastard
* RevengeByProxy:
* SurroundedByIdiots: During The Mugshot Longshot mission.
* TheSociopath: Off the buffoonish variety.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: To both Vic and Phil.

!!Music/PhilCollins
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Yes, ''that'' Phil Collins.

* MacGuffinEscortMission
* [[ThePresidentsDaughter The Rock Star in Danger]]

* StarCrossedLovers: [[to Vic after she's killed by Armando Mendez.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: If it's any concelation, Victor dies at the begining of ''Vice City'', [[TogetherInDeath So]]...]]

* StarCrossedLovers: [[to Vic after she's killed by Martinez.]]

* FallenHero: You can count just how much he lampshades this.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

* FallenHero

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Her fate before the end of ''ViceCityStories''.

* TheOtherDarrin