Grand Theft Auto has a lot of people to hate, for obvious reasons.
3D Universe
- Grand Theft Auto III: Catalina, who was also in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, betrays and repeatedly tries to kill Claude, and every one of her associates for her ambitions in the Colombian Cartel, later targeting and his supposed girlfriend, Maria, out of spite. In her appearance in San Andreas, it’s shown nine years prior, she was a raging psychotic murderer and generally unpleasant to those around her. She would also constantly abuse and belittle CJ throughout their one-sided relationship over incredibly petty reasons, even blaming him for some of her own mistakes. When she hooks up with Claude, she would constantly call CJ whilst having sex with the former, for no reason other than to annoy him.
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City:
- Sonny Forelli is the smug Don of the Forelli's, having set his supposed friend Tommy up to get arrested and imprisoned for fifteen years, because of the influence he gained in Liberty City. Sending Tommy to Vice City to run his drug trade, when Tommy branches out, Sonny goes after him, ranting that he "owns" Tommy while trying to kill him.
- Lance Vance is lazy, childish, and a complete parasite for almost everyone around him, even his brother as the prequel shows. He constantly causes trouble for Tommy, but he also whines that Tommy isn't treating him fairly even though Tommy not only saved his life, but carried him throughout all of their criminal endeavors. His subsequent betrayal in the final mission angered so many players that most, if not all, enjoyed killing him.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas:
- Officer Frank Tenpenny. Considering that he's a monstrous, hypocritical, sadistic, disgusting Dirty Cop who uses his police badge, his influence, and his connections to corrupt everyone around him and advance his selfish and criminal interests, it's clear that Tenpenny was meant to receive as much hatred and revulsion from players as possible. It certainly doesn't help that Tenpenny comes too close to the kind of corrupt individuals that can very well be found in real life.
- Tenpenny's Dragon, Pulaski. Just as big a scumbag as Tenpenny, minus his coolness and humor.
- OG Loc. Throughout all of his appearances he displays himself as an annoying, whiny brat with delusions of grandeur, who somehow thinks he can make a career as a rapper despite being utterly devoid of any semblance of talent and having the personality of sour milk. First, he coaxes CJ into committing several outrageous crimes without even rewarding him anyhow. First, he tells CJ to ruin the party at the beach by stealing a van with the sound system in it. Then, on Loc's behalf, CJ massacres a manor full of guards to steal Madd Dogg's rhyme book and assassinates Dogg's manager by drowning him with his mistress in their car. All this ruins Dogg's career, and he almost commits suicide in the process. After Dogg's entire works is in shambles, Loc bastardizes Dogg's lyrics with his atrocious music and finally proves be a Dirty Coward when CJ and Dogg decide to get back at him.
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories:
- Mrs. Cipriani, Toni's mother, was much worse than she was depicted in III. She constantly berates Toni for not being fearless like his father and even though Tony proved to Ma countless times that he is capable of handling problems all by himself (including butchering poor Casa and selling his remains to meat shop) she still disowns him. Her despicable attitude reaches extreme levels when she decides to call a hit on her own son, wanting Toni to die like a "real man". On the bright side, when Toni becomes a made man she calls the hit off and is never seen nor heard from ever again.
- Vincenzo, who is heavily implied to be a Green-Eyed Monster. At first, it's ambiguous whether he really set Toni up to be arrested by the police or not, causing Toni to be pissed off at him and crushing his car. Then, because of this, he tries to kill Toni and fails.
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories:
- Jerry Martinez is a corrupt military Sergeant, and is introduced as an immature and perverted oaf, whose ties with the Vice City criminal underworld put Vic in a downward spiral. At the start of the game, Martinez frames Vic for the possession of drugs and soliciting a prostitute, getting him booted from the military. Afterwards, Martinez repeatedly tries to screw Vic over out of spite, including having his love interest Louise kidnapped and assaulted.
- Marty Jay Williams is the head of the Trailer Park Mafia, and the abusive husband to Louise. If that wasn't enough, he also threatens to beat his own newborn daughter. When Louise eventually leaves Marty, and takes their daughter with her, Marty retaliates by abducting Louise, planning on making her one of his prostitutes'.
HD Universe
- Grand Theft Auto IV:
- Dimitri Rascalov, despite seeming more level headed and polite than his boss and alleged friend, Mikhail Faustin, is shown to be an arrogant, and cowardly backstabber. Throughout the game, after having Niko kill Mikhail, Dimitri takes control of Mikhail's operations and tries to sell Niko out to Ray Bulgarin, before burning down Niko's apartment and Roman's cab depot. Dimitri would later have Roman kidnapped to try to get at Niko, and in the Deal Ending, sends a hitman after Niko at Roman's wedding, getting Roman killed. In that same ending, Dimitri betrays and kills his new partner Jimmy Pegorino to take his shares from their deal.
- Vlad Glebov is a loan shark who Roman is in debt with and has a big ego, which made a lot of enemies among the named cast and everyone hates him. Not helping his case is the reveal that Mallorie slept with him to help pay off Roman's debt.
- Playboy X. An arrogant, self-centered asshole who believes he can be rich with his limited resources. Not only that, he is more than willing to kill Dwayne, his own mentor and friend. Even Niko tells him (before killing him) that he is a bad joke. To make matters worse, if you do choose to kill Dwayne, Playboy tells Niko off and blames him for Dwayne's death, even though he was the one who ordered Niko to kill Dwayne to begin with. Because of this and the fact that Dwayne gives you a much better reward, many players choose to kill Playboy instead.
- Francis McReary. Given that he is Dirty Cop with delusions of being a good person who was more than willing to commit fratricide, it's not hard to imagine that Francis was deliberately written to be hated. He is this In-Universe as well, since if you kill him instead of Derrick, Patrick will not mourn his death at all. Many people killed him instead of Derrick in his last mission despite the fact that he offers money and the ability to remove wanted levels, while Derrick rewarding you with higher respect for Patrick.
- Eddie Low, a deranged Serial Killer and a pathetic Psychopathic Manchild who acts by his own impulses. Fortunately, you can kill him as you wish in his last mission.
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned:
- Billy Grey is an arrogant, and hedonistic president of the LMC, becoming more of a prick as the story goes on. When Jason is killed by Niko, Billy lies and says the Angels of Death killed him, using this as an excuse to steal their heroin, which belonged to the Liberty City Triads who demand it be returned. When Johnny and Jimmy talk Billy into giving it back, Billy works out a deal with the Triads to get them both killed. Billy is arrested after the ensuing firefight, which in turn starts a civil war among The Lost with his loyalists. For all his talks to Johnny about loyalty, he decides to testify against the Lost in order to be released from prison. He also bragged about previously sleeping with Johnny's girlfriend, Ashley.
- Brian Jeremy, the annoying, bigoted, uncool, cowardly and incredibly irritating Billy Grey's Dragon who is always antagonizing Johnny, even for very pathetic reasons. Sure, he talks tough, but when the gunfight starts, he runs and hides.
- Ray Boccino takes a level in jerkass in TLaD, becoming far worse than he was in GTA IV. His sheer prickery and pretentiousness is taken to an extreme, as shown in his Establishing Character Moment when he treats Johnny with no respect at all, pissing him off completely when he off-handedly remarks that "everybody's friends with Ashley". Later, he ends torturing Jim Fitzgerald with a blowtorch while forcing Johnny to watch. Any Pet the Dog moments towards Ashley are effectively retconned because in reality he sees her as little more than onetime hook-up and he also trashtalks Niko behind his back, reacting with indifference if Johnny kills him, stating that he never liked him and only laments about how "they don't usually come this cheap".
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony: Rocco Pelosi is ends up as this due to his xenophobic insults thrown constantly at Tony Prince and Luis. And unlike Mori (who is just a Jerkass), Rocco is a malicious, despicable Jerkass who gets worse as the storyline progresses; initially having Luiz and Tony preform dangerous tasks to pay off the Ancelotti's, including putting Luiz through an ambush, before trying to get Luiz to kill Tony. While he manages to escape any sort of revenge at first, he resurfaces in V as a corrupt talent agent, trying to screw over Solomon Richards' movie production, before beating down the old man. Luckily, his brief appearances in V has Rocco punished; once by getting beat down by Michael, and later being killed by Michael.
- Grand Theft Auto V:
- Devin Weston, one of the game's main antagonists, and is despised by everyone. He's shown throughout as an narcissistic, cowardly and immature scumbag, thinking his wealth and power entitles him to do whatever he wants. At first he's pretty passive, ripping off Franklin and Michael, and Trevor after several jobs, and trying to shut down Michael and Solomon's movie. He only gets worse when he sends Merryweather to Michael's family out of spite, and later tries to get Franklin to kill him, blaming him for ruining his business. Thankfully, you can Take a Third Option by having him killed, and the protagonists face no repercussions as the FIB simply lists him as "missing" and his former allies are grateful that he's gone.
- Steve Haines, the game's other main antagonist, is a corrupt FIB Agent, making Michael, Franklin and Trevor do his dirty work, acting generally arrogant, controlling and obnoxious throughout the game. At one point he tries to throttle Michael because he stood up to him, and later has Trevor torture an innocent man before ordering said man killed. When their usefulness wears out and his corruption comes to light, he attempts to frame Michael for his operations, and tries to strong arm Franklin into killing Trevor to tie up loose ends. Thankfully, you can Take a Third Option by having him killed, and the protagonists face no repercussions as his former allies are grateful that he's gone and the FIB doesn't care much either.
- Franklin's aunt Denise doesn't do much to endear herself. Considering she spends most of her time complaining, being lazy, and insulting Franklin (and her deceased sister, who is Franklin's mother) every chance she gets. Even when Franklin is doing far better in life than she is, she still acts like an ungrateful hypocrite.
- Dr. Friedlander, the Dr. Jerk who keeps scamming money out of Michael for his therapy sessions, and not even trying to hide the fact he wants to milk Michael's mental issues for all they're worth. Thank God you have the option to kill him.
- Fabien LaRouche, the rude, perverted yoga instructor, has not endeared himself to fans at all. It's rather satisfying to see Michael whack him with a laptop for being just simply an awful person in general.
- Stretch. He has no characterization outside of being a pathetic Smug Snake who thinks his big-shot status in the Families means he controls Franklin and Lamar's lives, repeatedly trying to get them killed while working with the Ballas. Thankfully, you can Take a Third Option by having him killed, and the protagonists face no repercussions as he's no longer a threat to the Families once he's dead.
- Peter Dreyfuss. An absolutely deranged film director who killed a young woman in an extremely twisted way, even raping her post mortem. His reasoning for doing so is that he thinks his status puts him above everyone else. When Franklin finally confronts him about it, Dreyfuss runs off.
- One of Franklin's assassination targets, Jackson Skinner is an arrogant tech mogul, who makes the most of his short screentime of being a perverted scumbag. Picking up his favorite prostitute, he verbally abuses the woman on the trip to their hiding spot, threatens her daughter to keep her quiet, and can even knock her out when he's done with her. Upon killing him, Franklin states he doesn't even feel bad about it.
- Beverly Felton is a self-important douche who makes Franklin capture degrading evidence of various celebrities, dressing it up as trying to "humble" them for seeing themselves as gods, when he's little more than a paparazzo who ruins people's lives for clout. When he finally does get his own show, he has the gall to cut Franklin out.
