History VideoGame / GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony

* AwesomeButImpractical: The [[MoreDakka Advanced MG]]; while it has an incredible firing rate and magazine size it's stopping power is low, effective range is limited, accuracy is pretty bad for something in the assault rifle slot and because there isn't an ammo limit increase with this weapon you can't really go crazy with it and spray an area with bullets without running out of ammo very fast. The [[DeathFromAbove Buzzard]] is also one since unlike the hunter of previous games you have to manually aim every weapon which thanks to clumsy helicopter physics and controls is a lot more trouble than it's worth.

* The Pelosi family and Rocko Pelosi in particular who works for the Ancelotti family who is friends with Tony. Rocko uses the debt to make Tony do unsavory tasks ranging from mob work to making use of Luis'..."talent" with women.

* Mori Kibbutz, an entrepreneur and older brother of Brucie who loves nothing more than the thrill of adrenaline and pushing his little brother around and have the intellect and fitness skills to prove it.

* Yusuf Almir, the son of an Arab tycoon who wants nothing than to have a good time and steal some things that isn't exactly street legal.

* Ray Bulgarin: the newcomer who served as Niko's former client which kicked off the Diamonds subplot and serving as the major wrap up for the story as his appearance causes the delicate web of lies to fall apart.

* BalladOfX

* BrooklynRage

* EducationMama: Luis' mother.
** {{Hypocrite}}: While she constantly berates Luis for choosing the lifestyle he currently leads, and keeps urging him to go back to school, she always accepts the heaping wads of cash Luis produces from his pockets every time he visits. Luis gets angry about it at one point.
* ExpansionPack

* RightThroughHisPants

* BigApplesauce

* Ray Bulgarin: the newcomer who served as Nico's former client which kicked off the Diamonds subplot and serving as the major wrap up for the story as his appearance causes the delicate web of lies to fall apart.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler: The random encounter with a girl named Daisie Cash-Cooze. She asks Luis help to prevent ction star Chris Hunt from publishing a video of her giving him a handjob to disprove rumors that he is gay. After a WildGooseChase, they track him down at Star Junction, but too late; the video is shown on the Weazel News mega screen.]]

The protagonist this time around is Luis Fernando Lopez, a part-time hoodlum from Northwood (Liberty City's version of Inwood) who works as a body guard for "Gay Tony" Prince, one of Liberty City's top club entrepreneurs with a drug habit. As opposed to the slums and poverty-stricken protagonists of ''IV'' and ''The Lost and Damned'', ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' focuses on Liberty City's upper-class nightclub culture. However as debts rack up and collectors comes looking for their cut from a debt ridden club owner, Luis must decide if sticking around with the king of Liberty City's nightlife is a good idea or will it kill him faster than the debauchery of the nightclub life.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Parodied with a [[Radio/GTARadio radio show]] called ''Conspire'' hosted by "John Smith", a parody of Radio/AlexJones and similar right-wing/libertarian conspiracy theorists. "John" entertains, and often voices, every single crazy conspiracy theory and bit of paranoia and racism his listeners phone in with.

The protagonist this time around is Luis Fernando Lopez, a part-time hoodlum from Northwood (Liberty City's version of Inwood) who works as a body guard for "Gay Tony" Prince, one of Liberty City's top club entrepreneurs. As opposed to the slums and poverty-stricken protagonists of ''IV'' and ''The Lost and Damned'', ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' focuses on Liberty City's upper-class nightclub culture. However as debts rack up and collectors comes to pay, Luis must decide if sticking around with the king of Liberty City's nightlife is a good idea or will it kill him faster than the debauchery of the nightclub life.

The protagonist this time around is Luis Fernando Lopez, a part-time hoodlum from Northwood (Liberty City's version of Inwood) who works as a body guard for "Gay Tony" Prince, one of Liberty City's top club entrepreneurs. As opposed to the slums and poverty-stricken protagonists of ''IV'' and ''The Lost and Damned'', ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' focuses on Liberty City's upper-class nightclub culture.

* ShowWithinAShow: As with the other GTA IV-era games, a number of TV programs can be viewed in-game, including the anime spoof Princess Robot Bubblegum and Republican Space Rangers. And the radio stations featured in the other games are available once again, some of which contain complete episodes of programs like the HowardStern-spoofing ''Martin Serious Show''.

* HandCannon: The .44 automag fits this quite nicely.

* FriendingNetwork: Mocked with ''[[{{Twitter}} Bleeter]]''. One character [[InsistentTerminology bleets]] ''as he is being murdered'', and another mission involves chasing a guy across town while deciphering the clues in his asinine posts.

* ContinuityDrift: Averted for the most part. Unlike ''The Lost and Damned'', which broke continuity from GTA IV by allowing the player to free-roam all of Liberty City at a time when, in the main game, the bridges connecting the boroughs should be closed, ''Gay Tony'' starts after the events of the GTA IV mission that open up all the bridges.

* GrandFinale: For the IV trilogy. Interestingly, it was the last game which is set during the events of the [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV main game]] and ends after [[spoiler: Dimitri's death.]]

'''''Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony''''', released on 29 October 2009, is the second of the two ''Episodes from Liberty City'' expansion packs for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' (the first being ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost and Damned]]''), and is the finale of the ''GTA IV'' trilogy.

** Underlining the "optional" part, there seems to be no game-advancing purpose to engaging in this. You don't even win a trophy (in the PS3 version) if you previously made it to third base with one of Niko's girlfriends in GTA IV.

* NetworkDecay: In universe, the [[ArtifactTitle Vladivostok FM]] radio station returns from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' but no longer plays Russian/Eastern European pop music and instead plays American/European EDM.

* BookEnds: Not within the game per se, but for the ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV GTA IV]]'' era as a whole. The main game's introductory CutScene features a cook aboard the ship that ferried Niko Bellic to Liberty City holding up a diamond ([[MacGuffin from the batch the protagonists would later fight over]]) before dropping it into a cake mix to be smuggled into the city. After ''Ballad'''s final mission, [[spoiler: Luis accidentally bumps into a hobo who discovers the diamonds in a trash can and examines one the same way the cook did.]]

* NetworkDecay / TotalAbandonment: In universe, the [[ArtifactTitle Vladivostok FM]] radio station returns from [[GrandTheftAutoIV [=GTAIV=]]] but no longer plays Russian/Eastern European pop music and instead plays American/European EDM.

'''''Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony''''', released on 29 October 2009, is the second of the two ''Episodes from Liberty City'' expansion packs for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' (the first being ''[[GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost and Damned]]''), and is the finale of the ''GTA IV'' trilogy.

The protagonist this time around is Luis Fernando Lopez, a part-time hoodlum from Northwood (Liberty City's version of Inwood) who works as a body guard for "Gay Tony" Prince, one of Liberty City's top club entrepreneurs. As opposed to the slums and poverty-stricken protagonists of ''IV'' and ''TheLostAndDamned'', ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' focuses on Liberty City's upper-class nightclub culture.

* ForegoneConclusion: In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost And Damned]]'', [[PlayerCharacter Johnny]] bungles a diamond deal involving Gay Tony, and steals [[MacGuffin the gems]] off of the corpse of an associate of Tony's: a [[DarkSkinnedBlond tanned, blond]], [[MachoCamp muscular gay man]] who attempted to escape via limousine. [[spoiler: This pretty much describes Evan Moss.]] When you play the mission from Luis' perspective, and [[spoiler: Evan]] decides to tag along, you know what he's gonna be in for.

->''"I'm the only man in the history of this town with the hottest gay and straight clubs at the same time, and I'm about to lose everything!"''