The Best Supporting Characters in Grand Theft Auto, Ranked

 When it comes to GTA series, everybody adores playable protagonists like Trevor for his unhinged insanity and CJ for being a softie at heart.

But GTA diversions are pressed to the gills with extraordinary supporting characters who are adorable, terrible, imperfect, and silly – regularly all at once. Let’s take a see at a few of the important identities who made a difference make the recreations as awesome as they are.

Top 18 Supporting Characters in Grand Theft Auto, Ranked :

GTA's Best Supporting Characters, Ranked :

18. Phil Cassidy - GTA III, GTA: Vice City, GTA: Liberty City Stories, GTA: Vice City Stories

Arms dealer and boomshine entrepreneur Phil Cassidy has featured in a quartet of GTA games but it’s his Vice City appearances that are the most memorable.

17. Auntie Poulet - GTA: Vice City

In a series filled with shady characters, Auntie Poulet is one of the shadiest. As the leader of the Haitian gang in Vice City, she runs her business without any apparent moral guidelines.

16. Toni Cipriani - GTA III

Toni Cipriani is probably the most memorable character in the game (he even led his own prequel later on in 2005’s Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories).

15. Jimmy De Santa - GTA V

Michael’s son Jimmy is no role model but he’s still pretty hilarious in GTA V despite regularly being an awful, entitled brat.

14. Elizabeta Torres - GTA IV

If you want to make a professional-grade drug deal in Liberty City, Elizabeta Torres is your woman. Not only is she a well-connected dealer, but she has the distinction of being one of the less cartoonish characters in GTA IV. She’s a serious business woman who puts up with no nonsense from stoners like the Rastafarian Little Jacob when they cross paths.

13. Brucie Kibbutz - GTA IV, GTA V, GTA Online

On the surface, Brucie is not a very likable guy. Every other word out of his mouth is “bro,” and to stay strong he injects bull shark testosterone before working out, which gives him a raging temper. But he somehow manages to be an endearing presence in GTA IV.

12. Lazlow - Basically Every GTA Since GTA III

Lazlow is a background character in every GTA game since GTA III, hosting a large variety of radio shows across three decades and a variety of cities. However, his career – which began as a meek intern alongside Cousin Ed on V-Rock in ’80s Vice City – has just about petered out by the time we get to the events of GTA Online and GTA V (where we meet Lazlow in the flesh for the first time).

11. Love Fist - GTA: Vice City, GTA V

Like the rest of Vice City, this hair metal band is straight out of the ’80s. Led by the irrepressible Jezz Torrent they’re a rambunctious bunch of “drunken Scottish bisexuals” who manage to be more absurd than Spinal Tap. They even have an album called “Fat Chicks All Day and Night,” for crying out loud. In your missions for them, you discover that they’re hopelessly addicted to the drug “love juice,” and they’re being stalked by a murderer.

10. Ken Rosenberg - GTA: Vice City & GTA: San Andreas

Every respectable criminal needs a lawyer and Ken Rosenberg is one of the best. The thing is, he’s usually too busy complaining about his lot in life to be of much use in front of a judge.

09. Lamar Davis - GTA V, GTA Online

Employee of the Month runner-up Lamar Davis is probably the funniest character in GTA V this side of the unhinged Trevor. Franklin’s foul-mouthed but faithful friend.

08. Yusuf Amir - GTA IV

Yusuf Amir is a filthy-rich real estate developer who first appears in GTA IV. He loves to hang out in his luxurious penthouse suite and boast to anyone who will listen about his money, conquests, and desire to own all the property in Liberty City.

07. Phil Collins - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Songs by Phil Collins have appeared in a handful of GTA games, but Phil himself features as a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Stopping off in Vice City for an upcoming gig, Phil becomes the target of multiple assassination attempts over a bad debt his manager owes.

06. Wade Herbert - GTA V

Possibly the dumbest character ever to grace the cast of a GTA game (and that’s saying something), Wade Herbert is so pathetic you can’t help but love him in GTA V.

05. Kent Paul and Maccer - GTA: Vice City

Kent Paul turns up in Vice City as the manager of Love Fist, but he really comes into his own with his buddy (and compulsive masturbator) Maccer in GTA: San Andreas. These two idiots get blitzed on bad peyote and pass out in the desert.

04. Umberto Robina – GTA: Vice City, GTA: Vice City Stories

Chubby Cuban café owner Umberto Robina – worshipper of women, admirer of real men, and hater of all things Haitian – is a passionate man full of oddball advice (“How do you take out a snake? You bite him in the ass!”).

03. Frank Tenpenny - GTA: San Andreas

Any character voiced by Samuel L. Jackson should be cool, but Frank Tenpenny is one of the most despicable villains in the whole series. This cop is as crooked as a corkscrew, robbing CJ and pinning the murder of a police officer on him the moment he arrives in San Andreas.

02. Tony Prince - GTA IV, GTA IV: TLatD, GTA IV: TBoGT, GTA Online

The man who ran the 1980s and was the 1990s, “Gay” Tony Prince is known primarily for his appearances during the GTA IV era, but he also recently reappeared in GTA Online as a key character in the nightclub-centric ‘After Hours’ update.

01. Fernando Martinez - Almost Every GTA Since GTA III

Latin lothario Fernando Martinez has found a gig on the radio in nearly every Grand Theft Auto game since GTAIII; only Lazlow has shown up more often. A serial sex pest who became an American the “courageous way” (by “outrunning the speed boat”), Fernando’s third-person musings on the airwaves are typically as absurdly hilarious as they are madly mysoginistic.