List of characters in Grand Theft Auto Advance

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A number of recurring characters appear during the various missions or cut scenes in the video game Grand Theft Auto Advance. Prominent characters are listed here in rough order of appearance.

Note also that facts covered in this article is as of the release of Advance in 2004, and as such, primarily discusses the characters based on information in Advance and earlier Grand Theft Auto games. While San Andreas was released at the same time as Advance, Advance was developed by a different development house, the consistency of canons from Advance and San Andreas is unconfirmed. Thus San Andreas is not currently considered when discussing characters in Advance. For information on listed characters in later GTA games, see their respectable "see also" link(s) at the end of each section (when available).

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Major characters

[edit] Major characters

[edit] Mike

Mike.

Mike is Grand Theft Auto Advance's protagonist and player character. He and partner Vinnie had earned enough money to leave Liberty City for good, but Mike was coaxed by Vinnie to take a few more jobs from the Mafia before leaving. After Vinnie was thought to be killed by a car bomb, Mike attempted to trace the killer, while attracting negative attention from all gangs in the city. Learning that Vinnie was still alive, was responsible for killing several of his bosses, and was intending to leave with Mike's share of the earned money, he killed Vinnie. Mike eventually escapes the city with a private aircraft owned by Cisco, Mike's deceased ally and leader of the Colombian Cartel.

[edit] Vinnie

Vinnie.

Vinnie is the partner and boss of Mike, who insisted Mike in doing a few more jobs before leaving the city. He was allegedly killed by a car bomb, with "his" remains found in the car. He would be killed by Mike, as he reveals his true nature and motive.

[edit] 8-Ball

8-Ball.

8-Ball is Mike's second boss after Vinnie was thought to be killed. Initially supplying Mike with several missions while aiding him in tracking Vinnie's murderer, 8-Ball would be on the run as he was chased by Vinnie's assassins.

A mission near the end of the game features Mike ambushed by the Colombian Cartel while meeting 8-Ball at a diner. During this attack, the Cartel members use flamethrowers as their primary weapons; 8-Ball was caught in the crossfire. Upon completion of the mission, 8-Ball reveals that he has been severely burned, and tells Mike to escape as police arrive on the scene. He is eventually arrested by the police, connecting to the start of Grand Theft Auto III's storyline (in which he would later escape, with his "messed up" hands wrapped in bandages, from police custody along with Claude in GTA III). This is disputed, however, as an article from the Liberty Tree's website, created as a teaser for GTA III, states that 8-Ball's hands were scalded by a pot of burning fat while involved in a scuffle with police.

See also: GTA III rendition & GTA: Liberty City Stories rendition

[edit] Jonnie

Jonnie.

Jonnie is a bartender in the Red Light District, Portland Island. He served as Mike's third boss, before he was assassinated. Mike's discovery of Jonnie's death was followed by a pursuit of Yardies members that led to King Courtney, the head of the Yardies.

[edit] King Courtney

King Courtney.

King Courtney is the leader of the Uptown Yardies and Mike's fourth boss. Involved in a turf war with the Colombian Cartel, Courtney is also involved in illegal racing around Staunton Island. He and his gang would serve as another primary antagonist alongside Vinnie near the end of the storyline.

See also: GTA III rendition

[edit] Cisco

Cisco.

Cisco is the leader of the Colombian Cartel and Mike's fifth boss. He was killed by Vinnie and was succeeded by an unnamed lieutenant (it remains to be seen if the successor is Miguel, a key member of the Cartel in Grand Theft Auto III and Liberty City Stories).

[edit] Asuka Kasen

Asuka Kasen.

Asuka Kasen is the leader of the Yakuza and is Mike's sixth boss. Asuka is revealed to have bizarre fetishes and sexual preferences.

See also: GTA III rendition

[edit] Yuka

Yuka.

Yuka is Asuka Kasen's young niece. Yuka served in only one major plotline, in which Mike was ordered by Cisco to kidnap Yuka as Cartel blackmail to the Yakuza, before she would eventually be rescued by Mike and returned to Asuka. It is speculated that Asuka finds out about this and leads to her double-crossing Mike.^{[verification needed]}