Trivia / Saints Row

Index: All Games | Saints Row (2006) | Saints Row 2 | Saints Row: The Third | Saints Row IV | Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell | Agents of Mayhem | Saints Row (2022)

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• All-Star Cast: Other than all of the A-listers mentioned below in Celebrity Voice Actor, you have a lot of veteran voice acting talent in Yuri Lowenthal, Laura Bailey, Tara Platt, Troy Baker, Nolan North (as himself, no less), Terrence C. Carson, Steve Blum, Robin Atkin Downes, Travis Willingham, Max Mittelman, Erica Lindbeck, Greg Chun, Jeannie Tirado, and Darin De Paul among others throughout much of the series.
• As Himself: Particularly in the third and fourth installments where we had Burt Reynolds, Keith David, Roddy Piper, and North all Adam Westing as themselves.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: Plenty across the whole series.
  • Keith David both as Julius Little in the first game, Saints Row 2 and Saints Row IV and also as himself in the latter game.
  • Daniel Dae Kim as Johnny Gat throughout the entire series, even reprising him in Agents of Mayhem.
  • Mila Kunis as Tanya Winters, though only in the first game. She would get The Other Darrin treatment in SR4.
  • The late Michael Clarke Duncan as Benjamin King in SR1. He would be recasted by Terry Crews in his return in SR4 though Duncan was set to return prior to his untimely death.
  • The late David Carradine as William Sharp, again, in SR1.
  • Michael Rapaport as Troy Bradshaw in the first two games.
  • Eliza Dushku as Shaundi in SR2. Darrin'd by Danielle Nicolet since SR3 with Jennifer Jules Hart also replacing Dushku as Shaundi's younger self from the former game in SR4.
  • Neil Patrick Harris as Veteran Child in Saints Row 2 and SR4.
  • Jay Mohr as Dane Vogel in SR2 and Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell.
  • Hulk Hogan as Angel De La Muerte in Saints Row: The Third.
  • Sasha Grey as Viola DeWynter in SR3 and Gat Out of Hell.
  • Nathan Fillion as, well, God in Gat Out of Hell.
• Channel Hop:
  • The first three titles were published by THQ, but after their bankruptcy, Volition and Saints Row were acquired by Deep Silver, who published 2013's Saints Row IV and 2017's Agents of Mayhem.
  • In 2018, THQ Nordic would acquire Deep Silver's owner Koch Media, putting Volition and the series back into the THQ... if only in name, as it's still a completely different company that uses the THQ trademark for business purposes.
  • And then they'd go from Deep Silver to Gearbox Software sometime after the reboot's release in late 2022, though any remaining DLC for the latter is to be published by Deep Silver, any project that Volition makes from the reboot onwards (Saints Row or no) will now be published by Gearbox.
• Production Nickname: During development, The Protagonist was named Mikey, but was pronounced as "Mickey". Fans decided to go with that name when needed to refer to a Male Boss by name (For the Female Boss, they use Michelle).
• Promoted Fanboy: Famous modder IdolNinja, creator of the popular "Gentlemen of the Row" mod (which fixed many of the issues with the PC port of SR2), eventually got hired by Volition.
• Sequel Gap: The reboot released on August 23rd, 2022, a whole nine years after Saints Row IV, which released in 2013.
• Working Title: Bling-Bling. It gets a Mythology Gag in the form of a store of the same name in the first two games.
• What Could Have Been: The original Beta trailer for the first game depicted the Saints as wearing green. Word is that, following the release of San Andreas, they were switched to purple to avoid accusations of the Saints being imitations or ripoffs of the Grove Street Families. YMMV on whether or not the Saints sharing a color with the GSF's main rival, the Ballas, is either a Take That! or Hilarious in Hindsight.

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