Saints Row (series)/Characters

A list of characters from the Saints Row series. Gang affiliation is a big part of the character's identities, so they're grouped by the gang they work/worked for (if applicable).

The Boss/Playa (all incarnations)
Main Tropes

""I'm gonna skull fuck that bitch." "Hope you don't mind hepatitis.""
 * Ascended Fanboy: In the third game Male 1 will sometime shout "Murder time, fun time!" when he kills someone. Also, The Boss working for Burt Reynolds.
 * BADASS
 * Determinator: He/she is like a walking talking blender - anything between their goal goes down.
 * Also even when completely stoned he/she can still fight off enemies en masse.
 * One-Man Army: NPC allies aren't exactly competent fighters so you'll be doing most of the work.
 * Berserk Button: In the sequels, harming the Boss's subordinates is enough for them to take a break from carefree mayhem and give the perpetrator their full attention.
 * Also betrayal, you can be an undercover cop or a former rival gang member but never fuck with the Boss when it comes to loyalties or he/she will hunt you down to the ends of the earth.
 * Book Dumb: Zigzagged. At times the Boss comes across as downright stupid, but there are occasional hints that it's of the obfuscating variety and every once in a while the Boss says something genuinely insightful or smart (which almost always results in a shocked reaction from the other characters).
 * The Captain: After the first incarnation of the Saints.
 * Character Development: Goes from Julius' lieutenant to a borderline psychopath in the second game. The range of voice options can elaborate this further. The third game has Boss come across as more level headed than Shaundi, helped further by player input on certain decisions (nuke the Syndicate's headquarters or keep it as a base, use zombie gas to create more homies or dispose of it, sacrifice Shaundi to go after Killbane or save her). Third-game Boss is also noticeably nicer than second-game boss and can even be outright heroic at times, though s/he's still completely nuts. By game four, The Boss is firmly on the higher end of the anti-hero scale
 * Coup De Grace Cutscene: S/he finished most of the gang leaders in the series like this.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Even in the game where he barely talks.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Even in the game where he barely talks.

""Really? Really?""
 * Devil in Plain Sight: Becomes less noticable over time as they get progressively more heroic as the games continue.
 * Drives Like Crazy: Of course, this depends on how you play... and it's kinda hard to follow traffic laws while you're listening to Wolfmother.
 * Regardless of how you play, it's Lampshaded by almost every character who rides shotgun with you. Characters from the first game give a familiar Continuity Nod in regards to it. And Jane waxes poetic about your vehicular carnage.
 * Here's something well hidden. Call up a homie then when they arrive dismiss them. S\he will get in their vehicle and take off. You can jump in the passenger seat and now Boss will give them shit over their driving. It's best to have a load of flashbangs to freak out your homie and any driver\passengers to encourage accidents.


 * Even Evil Has Standards: S/he may be an amoral crime boss, but is still horrified after seeing  in the Ultor Exposed DLC.
 * Again in the third game. Murder, theft, human trafficking, insurance fraud, and wanton destruction are all fine. Hypercommercialisation, on the other hand, is something the Boss starts having doubts about. This may or may not stick depending on the ending chosen..
 * Also in the third game Boss doesn't like the way a director of the movie they happen to be staring in treats the actress they play alongside and quickly begins trying to screw with him and get him to stop even though he does nothing but praise whatever Boss does. They also try to get the poor girl to stand up for herself so he won't pick on her so much.
 * In The Trouble With Clones Boss becomes kind of heroic, as s\he is genuinely pissed at the army attacking Pierce and  even showing remorse for the Saints   Whatever criticism you can level at Boss, s\he has one of the most heroic scenes yet.
 * The fourth game has The Boss genuinely horrified, just to prove how much he should be taken seriously. Keep in mind back in SR2, The Boss themselves was a barely restrained psychopath at best who would have been happy to watch the world burn for shits and giggles, so this was basically invoked to show just how much The Boss had undergone Character Development.
 * Evil Feels Good:
 * More Like Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!.
 * Which is subverted by the fourth game, as by this point The Boss has become a world leader, and one of their very first game decisions can be to end world hunger or support a cure for cancer, with no evil option available at all.
 * Faux Affably Evil: Throughout a majority of the second game.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: The first game begins with the Playa just walking down a street before being caught in a gang fight and co-opted into the Saints. S\he takes to the lifestyle like a duck to a thing a duck would enjoy a lot.
 * Garbage Wrestler The only way the Boss was able to fight Killbane in Murderbrawl.
 * He Who Fights Monsters: In the second game. Is given the option to keep doing that at the end of SR3, but opted not to as of SRIV canon.
 * Implacable Man: Both in and out of gameplay, assuming you do enough diversions. Blowing up The Boss just got him/her pissed off, and in the second game, the full complement of perks means that s/he can jump out of a plane, get hit by three exploding trucks on fire, and take a point-blank shotgun blast to the face without going down.
 * Jerkass: On a bad day.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Somewhat nicer from the third game onwards.
 * Kick the Dog: The Boss is fond of doing this, especially in the second game. Arguably the most brutal example was the way s/he cripples Matt's hand with fireworks. Matt had nothing to do with The Brotherhood other than doing their tattoos and being close friends with Maero. He gave him/her all the information s/he wanted and s/he still ruins his livelihood as both a tattoo artist and musician by doing this.
 * The Boss starts easing off on this from the third game onward, but it still comes up as an option.
 * Made of Iron
 * Mercy Kill:.
 * Nakama: With the Saints, most of the time. Get upgraded to basically all the time by the end of the fourth game. Said Nakama repays the favor in the expansion.
 * No Name Given: S/he's usually just referred to as the Boss.
 * In the third game pairing Boss with Zimos may prompt some dialogue where Boss asks Zimos what his real name is when Zimos says it's "Need to know and you don't". When Zimos asks Boss their name the Russian female boss says her name is classified.
 * Male 3 tells Zimos that his name is Winston Churchill. He doesn't buy it.
 * The last Heli Assault activity against the Deckers reveals that Kinzie knows the Boss's real name. The Boss promptly tells her to shut up when she starts to say it.
 * Not So Harmless: Maero originally believes that The Boss is just a washed-up gangbanger and therefore gives him/her a pitiful proposition. He REALLY regrets this as the gang war between them becomes increasingly brutal and vicious.
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil: The Ronin and Brotherhood missions especially consist of increasingly bloody games of tit-for-tat between The Boss and whoever's stupid enough to try and get to him/her through the Saints' lieutenants.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: By the end of SRTT, s/he is able to blow up a sky scraper, sink an aircraft carrier, take on a well-armed paramilitary group, bring down a flying warship,, not to mention kill a truly ungodly number of people.
 * Pet the Dog: S/he seems to show genuine care and concern for the Saints, especially the lieutenants..
 * In the new "Gangstas In Space" DLC Boss is extremely nice to the actress they have to work with. They coach her throughout the DLC to stand up for herself and not take shit from the Jerkass director who insults and belittles her at every chance he gets. Soon they even become friends and she can be called as a homie upon completion of the last mission.

": "Jesus...you haven't learned a god damn thing." Boss: "Wrong! I learned that being in charge was better than being a bitch who kept his/her mouth shut and does what s/he's told!""
 * This actually becomes plot relevant to the third game, with the Boss being asked by other Saints if they are softening with their new public image, and depending on your choices in the third game, the Boss can either continue this trope or revert back to being the ruthless bastard they were in SR2. The ending is basically choosing whether to go this trope permanently or not..
 * It's noteworthy throughout the series that anyone who becomes affiliated with the Saints falls under someone the Boss would kill for so long as they return the favor, and this applies to all members, regardless of how long they've been a Saint or how big or small their contributions are.
 * Protagonist Without a Past: In the first game, he's just an ordinary schmuck who happens to walk right into a gang war, without any backstory. Was he a criminal beforehand, or a law-abiding citizen seduced by the criminal lifestyle? We don't find out. However, along with having way more dialogue, we get some small tidbits of info. For example, s/he mentions coming to a bordello since s/he was a teenager, and one of the female voices reveals that her father loved guns and told her that you could never have enough. Plus, the events of the first game are your protagonist's past now.
 * Red Baron: The Butcher of Stilwater.
 * Silent Bob: In the first game s/he only has four spoken lines, in the sequel s/he speaks just as much as any other character. This is also Lampshaded in the second game.

"Aisha: Oh my god, it's you. Boss: Surprised, Aisha? Aisha: What, that you're here, or that you're talking? Boss: Pick one."
 * Also,

"Don't you get it? The Saints didn't solve a goddamn thing. Drugs were still being pushed, innocent people were still being killed... all we did was turn into Vice Kings that wore purple... Playa: Jesus Christ you sound like a pussy... I sound like someone who's not a sociopath..."
 * The Sociopath: Cares for his/her lieutenants, but makes it clear that s/he's in the gang scene for the perks and power. Has nothing but contempt for attempt to be a "killer with a conscience."


 * This trope is averted more and more in the third game (dependent on your choices), and almost entirely in the fourth.
 * Squee: S\he has this reaction big time over Burt Reynolds.
 * Suddenly Voiced: Oh so much in the second game. The voice options are absolute gold.
 * Talkative Loon: Believe it or not s\he talks even more in the third game and fourth game.
 * Took a Level in Badass: In Saints Row 2.
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: Also in Saints Row 2.
 * They can keep going this way in one of the SR3 endings if they choose to.
 * Villain Protagonist: S/he's not exactly one of God's best children, being a murderer, drug trafficker, thief, and possible jaywalker.
 * A Lighter Shade of Grey: On the other hand, despite being a criminal, the Boss does wind up doing acts of altruism for their friends in the second game onwards, and one of the endings of the third game has one of villains concede that the Saints looked more heroic than the supposed heroes (who were actually the villains), as they wound up stopping an actual terrorist plot. By the fourth game, the Saints have become full on Anti Heroes.
 * Wrestler in All of Us: S/he can adopt wrestling moves in the second game from the Brotherhood.
 * The third game, while doing away with four separate fighting styles, incorporates wrestling moves into the Boss's fighting style by default.

Gender, Race and Playing Style Selection Tropes
""One for ..." "One for ..." "One for my crew..." "And one just for me...""
 * Acrofatic: You can make your Boss fat (ranging from "chubby" fat to "gives The Notorious B.I.G. a run for his money" fat), and s/he'll still be able to sprint and jump without a hitch. Regarding the sprint, you can unlock infinite sprint... meaning you can run laps around the city and still look like you're in danger of having a heart attack at any minute.
 * Big Beautiful Woman / Big Handsome Man
 * Ambiguously Gay/Depraved Bisexual: Female boss definitely likes girls, even if there's one voice, when stoned, asking if Pierce was interested in her.
 * The same voice also ask Johnny if a hospital is a good place to pick up guys and later remarks on phone watching two strippers perform.
 * And This Is For: In the third game, Female 1 voiced Boss will give one when planting each explosive during the final mission of the "Shock and Awe" ending. Makes it all the more poignant.

"Russian!Female Boss: When I was a child, my father would make me fight the dogs for food. It made me who I am today."
 * Author Avatar: Obviously, it is possible to create one.
 * Badass Grandpa/Never Mess with Granny: You can make your Boss be an old man/woman.
 * Badass Spaniard: And on that note...
 * Call Back: When drunk she will laugh and laugh and laugh at the joke she made to Gat in the first game.
 * Crazy Awesome: Half the lines s\he speaks. Somehow as a Badass Spaniard or Spicy Latina s\he gets all the best, Crazy Awesome lines.
 * Dark Action Girl: Possible after the first game.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: One voice will comment on Matt and fearful of her kids turning out like him vows she'll never let them play video games.
 * Evil Albino: If you're making an albino character, this is what you're getting.
 * Evil Brit: Voiced by Maxwell Sheffield, no less! In Saints Row The Third there is also the option of a British voice, this time voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.
 * Evil Is Sexy: If you so choose. The vast selection of tight, skimpy and damned classy clothes helps greatly.
 * Fat Bastard/Fat Girl
 * Hidden Depths: Depending on the voice you use s\he be may drop interesting tidbits. Collecting glass unicorns for example.
 * Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Russian!Female Boss, dear god.


 * Hot Amazon: A female boss will tower over every other woman and several guys in the game. Various male Saints will also comment on her being the toughest chick they ever met.
 * Intelligible Unintelligible: In the third game, with the Zombie voice option.
 * Juggalo: Many fans of Psychopathic Records were quite pleased to find face paint options in the second game. Although there are only four different styles the sheer amount of customization options allow many players to create their ideal juggalo persona.
 * Knife Nut
 * The Ladette: Played straight with all the female voices in Saints Row 2 and the Russian and Latina voices in The Third. Female voice 1 in TT also counts, but she does occasionally show a feminine side. This trope is the Latina voice to a T though.
 * Les Yay: Female characters have these moments.
 * Magic Plastic Surgery: Along with Easy Sex Change
 * Mother Russia Makes You Strong: The "Russian" voice in Saints Row The Third skews to this. "Is exciting, yes? Like attacking a tiger with a knife!"
 * Muscles Are Meaningless: The flip side of the Acrofatic option; you can be skinny as a rail and still throw people around like rag dolls and kill Brutes like it's nobody's business.
 * Platonic Life Partners: With Johnny Gat, if you play a girl. They're very close friends, but there's nothing sexual going on, and Johnny is hooked up with Aisha.
 * Even afterwards it remains completely platonic in later games, though they would happily go through hell for each other..
 * Sassy Black Woman
 * Scary Black Man
 * Sensual Slavs as of Saint's Row the Third it is possible to be one of these.
 * Spicy Latina
 * Virtual Paper Doll: Thanks to the many options in clothing and body builds, you can make your own Boss rather easily. And making it resemble to another character is far from impossible. Pick up long purple hair, a tanktop, some shorts and pretend you're in Roanapur.
 * Blonde ponytail, red tank and black trousers, or jacket and jeans and you have Buffy. Crop top and cargoes, Kim Possible. With a little work you can pull off John Cena and Ric Flair (replete with their signature taunts). All part of the fun of course.
 * Vocal Dissonance: You can mix and match bodies and voices for the Boss. You can have a male body with a female voice, or the other way around. And then there's the zombie voice...
 * When I Was Your Age: Parodied; one of the lines demonstrating the "Male 1" voice in the third game complains about kids playing video games, saying that when he was young, he would've been playing outside... killing people in real life.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy/White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * White Gang-Bangers

Julius Little
"Played By: Keith David"

Julius is the charismatic founder and leader of the Third Street Saints in the first game. He saves the main character - who he refers to as "Playa" - from a gang shootout, and offers him a place in the Saints. Julius claims that their goal is to clean up Stilwater and wipe out the rival gangs who are raising hell and generally making life miserable, even if he does make some questionable decisions. He.


 * Affably Evil
 * The Captain: In the first incarnation of the Saints.
 * The Chessmaster: In short, he
 * Hypocrite: Makes a deal with the Colombian drug cartels for the Saints to be their sole distributors when the Vice Kings refuse to touch the stuff.
 * Jive Turkey
 * Keith David
 * Necessarily Evil
 * Nice Hat
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Is it just me, or does Julius look exactly like Samuel L. Jackson?
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: Julius originally wanted the gang color to be green. During the development of the first game, the developers originally planned for the Saints to have green as their color. But due to the release of a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas trailer which featured a gang in green and not wanting comparisons to be made, the devs changed it to purple.
 * Scary Black Man
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Whether he was justified or not depends greatly on the audience's perspective.
 * Deconstructed when you think about it. Julius' good intentions kill literally hundreds of people more than regular gang violence.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Is it just me, or does Julius look exactly like Samuel L. Jackson?
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: Julius originally wanted the gang color to be green. During the development of the first game, the developers originally planned for the Saints to have green as their color. But due to the release of a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas trailer which featured a gang in green and not wanting comparisons to be made, the devs changed it to purple.
 * Scary Black Man
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Whether he was justified or not depends greatly on the audience's perspective.
 * Deconstructed when you think about it. Julius' good intentions kill literally hundreds of people more than regular gang violence.
 * Deconstructed when you think about it. Julius' good intentions kill literally hundreds of people more than regular gang violence.

Johnny Gat
"Played By: Daniel Dae Kim"

"I'm gonna punch him in the face."
 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: Aisha did.
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "387 counts of murder, and one count of attempted murder".
 * Though with the statute of limitations it should be lower.
 * BADASS: Is so legendary for it even The Boss affords him great respect.
 * We also find out the Big Bad of the fourth game was so scared shitless of Gat he because he was certain leaving Gat to his own devices would screw over his plans in the fourth game. In short, Gat was so badass.
 * Gat's own words on what he'd do if he met Satan:


 * Cluster F-Bomb: While the game isn't short on swearing, Gat manages to find new and creative ways to insert profanity into almost every sentence.
 * Cool Shades
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Determinator
 * Heroic Sociopath: His response to any problem is to kick down a door and start shooting. He's so crazy that even other gangsters think he's a complete nutcase.
 * Made of Iron: Not quite to the degree of the Boss, but it still deserves a mention.
 * Murder Is the Best Solution
 * Number Two: In the second incarnation of the Saints.
 * Sanity Slippage: Street gossip reveals that he becomes even more violently unhinged after
 * Smoking Is Cool: The Gatmobile (which was made in his likeness) comes with a built in cigarette flamethrower. This is somewhat odd as Gat is never actually seen smoking in any of the games while many of the other Saints are.
 * Sympathetic Murderer: Especially after
 * Sunglasses at Night
 * Testosterone Poisoning
 * The Worf Effect: He's a Badass Heroic Sociopath that can blast his way though an army of mooks but he seems to get hurt a lot to show the gang he's against means business. In the first game he's kneecapped by Anthony Green and held captive, in the second game he's run through with a sword by Jyunichi, and in the third he's stabbed by Philippe Loren
 * Sanity Slippage: Street gossip reveals that he becomes even more violently unhinged after
 * Smoking Is Cool: The Gatmobile (which was made in his likeness) comes with a built in cigarette flamethrower. This is somewhat odd as Gat is never actually seen smoking in any of the games while many of the other Saints are.
 * Sympathetic Murderer: Especially after
 * Sunglasses at Night
 * Testosterone Poisoning
 * The Worf Effect: He's a Badass Heroic Sociopath that can blast his way though an army of mooks but he seems to get hurt a lot to show the gang he's against means business. In the first game he's kneecapped by Anthony Green and held captive, in the second game he's run through with a sword by Jyunichi, and in the third he's stabbed by Philippe Loren

Troy Bradshaw
"Played By: Michael Rappaport"


 * The Atoner: In Gat Out of Hell.
 * Call Back: While he doesn't actually appear in the third game a police officer in the first mission will mention him.
 * Call Back: While he doesn't actually appear in the third game a police officer in the first mission will mention him.


 * : Let's just say he was promoted big time in the last five years.
 * Deal with the Devil:
 * : To the Boss in Saints Row 2.
 * Must Make Amends:
 * Number Two: In the first incarnation of the Saints.
 * Pet the Dog:
 * Smoking Is Cool: Especially during the first game, where he lights his cigarette on the burning body of a tough rival gang member.
 * White Gang-Bangers
 * Smoking Is Cool: Especially during the first game, where he lights his cigarette on the burning body of a tough rival gang member.
 * White Gang-Bangers

Dexter "Dex" Jackson
"Played By: Jeffrey Allen Qaiyum"


 * Black Best Friend
 * Cultured Warrior
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Gives Troy a "What the hell dude?" look after he lights a cigarette on the burning body of a gang member they had just killed.
 * Grammar Nazi: Gets annoyed at everyone for saying "The Los Carnales", especially after he starts saying it himself.
 * Mr. Fixit
 * Nice Hat
 * Put on a Bus: Apparently the devs don't want to bring him back to not confuse new players.
 * Averted in Gat Out of Hell, where he was brought back so the player could have the pleasure of killing him.
 * Teen Genius: Or young adult at least. He doesn't seemed to be very old at all in the first game.
 * Teen Genius: Or young adult at least. He doesn't seemed to be very old at all in the first game.

Lin
"Played By: Tia Carrere"


 * Action Girl
 * Bastard Girlfriend: Did you just insult her? Punch to the the face. Did you just act nice towards her? She'll be rude and treat you like dirt. Even Playa takes a little while to earn any respect from her.
 * Continuity Nod:
 * Mata Hari
 * Ship Tease: Between their interactions in the first game, and how quickly Pierce hides the picture of her in the third, there is a rising amount of suspicion that the Boss has/had some feelings for Lin. Because he didn't know Lin, and his noticeably freaked out expression on seeing her picture, it is implied that unless the Boss him/herself brings it up, you don't talk about Lin.
 * One of the Boys
 * Reverse Mole
 * Smoking Is Cool: Just like many of the male Saints.
 * Wrench Wench: She gets really annoyed at the Rollers when they think someone like Donnie worked on her car, when in reality she tricked it out entirely by herself.
 * Smoking Is Cool: Just like many of the male Saints.
 * Wrench Wench: She gets really annoyed at the Rollers when they think someone like Donnie worked on her car, when in reality she tricked it out entirely by herself.

Shaundi
"Played By: Eliza Dushku & Danielle Nicolet"

One of the Saints' lieutenants, Shaundi starts as a stoner/college dropout/hippie type who Really Gets Around and is almost always under the influence of some kind of drug. However, she's still a very efficient member of the Saints, and the countless people she knows provide the Saints with tons of leads regarding the rival gangs. But in The Third, she's become a lot more serious and focused - especially after.

""Yeah, this isn't working for me.""
 * Action Girl
 * Faux Action Girl: Her getting kidnapped by Veteran Child causes the Protagonist to accuse her of being this.
 * Dark Action Girl: Much more bloodthirsty in the third game. Though she still gets kidnapped (and more than anyone else, for that matter).
 * Antiheroic Sociopath: She prefers exterminating the Syndicate to the Boss's plan of taking them over, and doesn't mind expressing this view. As far as anyone else is concerned, she won't want to kill them unless they piss her off, like Birk.
 * Blood Knight: After  nothing less than the murder of every member of the Syndicate will placate her. If she and Angel are in your party they might have a conversation about how uptight she is, why she is, and how she will do whatever it takes to screw over the Syndicate, before Angel professes his love to her for those qualities.
 * Character Development: Picking up on clues from the games, it seems after a bad trip to Steelport she becomes a stoner, before joining the Saints. In the third game she ditches drugs, dating and Took a Level in Badass, then becomes enraged over
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Sort of. She's pretty on the ball, but a little forgetful and spacy due to being constantly stoned.
 * Damsel in Distress: In one level two levels. The boss actively questions her Action Girl credentials, concluding in the final missions of the Samedi arc that the only character she could take on is Veteran Child,
 * Distaff Counterpart: To Gat in the third game, minus the happy attitude. She clearly cares for him, and  They also miss their shot at taking out the Big Bad (a security guard sneaks up on Gat before he can take out Vogal, and before Shaundi can kill Killbane Matt Miller makes the chopper she and Boss are on crash.)
 * Eliza Dushku: In Saints Row 2
 * Erudite Stoner
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Shaundi is right into fighting gangs. Random assaults on people in the street will bore her.
 * Erudite Stoner
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Shaundi is right into fighting gangs. Random assaults on people in the street will bore her.

"Shaundi: *after taking Boss' gun and shooting two Syndicate guards in the head* Put in your tampons and let's do this!"
 * Flanderization: In both games. On the one hand she was a constant stoner with a ridiculous amount of boyfriends. On the other hand she becomes a stone cold killer, second only to the Boss, and is constantly pissed off.
 * Hotter and Sexier: She was by no means unattractive in the second game, but by The Third, her look has really...changed.
 * Murder Is the Best Solution: Forget taking over the Syndicate, Shaundi wants them all dead because they killed Gat and attacked his funeral. Forget that Josh Birk can be used to lure STAG into a trap, or to make a deal, just kill him.
 * New Age Retro Hippie
 * Noodle Incident: Various comments hint at something bad happening when she visited Steelport before. It's hinted that Zimos used her as a ho.
 * Not as You Know Them: Between her drastic change in appearance and unusually focused demeanor, you'd never know that the Shaundi in Saints Row the Third was a laid back stoner chick in the second game.
 * Which becomes a plot point in the fourth game..
 * Number Two: Treated as this in the third game.
 * One of the Boys
 * Really Gets Around: Actually, this makes her very useful. All the Saints usually have to do is wait for one of the over six hundred guys she used to fuck to give her a call.
 * She ditches this in the third game, only mentioning a single ex in Steelport that she keeps in contact with who is willing to let the Saints crash at his apartment. The guy she's most focused on is Gat and that's only because of his death. She might get angry at her past being brought up, and her reaction to a actor hitting on her is to plead to Boss to let her kill him.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the third game. She tears into the Boss when s\he loses control of the helicopter they're sniping from, causing her to miss killing Killbane (who Shaundi really wants dead after his attack when the Saints were arranging Gat's funeral). She also begins a What the Hell, Hero? when the Saints start turning into the Syndicate, rather that Kill'Em All.
 * Sanity Slippage: Like Gat after  she breaks after , becoming more angry and violent.
 * Self-Serving Memory: After  death she is enraged about both Pierce and Boss for quickly getting over it, telling her it's better to move on than to spend all time mourning, acting as if it's the first time Boss lost a close friend. Apparently she either has forgotten   or ignores his death and how Boss handled it. Which was the same way.
 * Maybe she wanted Boss to go right for stuffing members of the Syndicate in the boot of a car and having it crushed, rather than mess around trying the different activities.
 * Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Mid way through the game she will call you and discuss your actions, depending on which voice you use. She may be optimistic, even crediting Matt and Kinzie on their work (female voice 1). With another voice she'll call you out on keeping Viola around and turning into the Syndicate when she wants to just kill'em. Other options are for Boss to reassure her that they are doing what they do for Gat.
 * Took a Level in Badass: Say what you want, she did survive the last encounter with The General.
 * Her Action Girl credentials in The Third gets taken up quite a bit since


 * Took a Level in Jerkass: Viola might try being nice to her. Shaundi deadly tells her not to say a word to her.
 * She knows Russian Boss is obsessed with Pierce so she'll troll her by claiming she and Pierce are going to get married and have a bunch of kids. Boss is not amused by this.
 * White Gang-Bangers

Carlos Mendoza
"Played By: Joe Camareno"

The first person the Boss meets after waking up from his/her coma, Carlos proceeds to help him/her escape from prison and return to Stilwater. This effectively acts as his foot in the door into the Saints (which his brother was a member of before they disbanded), and the Boss recruits him as a lieutenant. He's young and inexperienced, but genuinely tries, and the Boss appears to see him as a bit of a younger brother figure.


 * The Heart
 * Joke Character:
 * Nice Hat
 * Undying Loyalty: Remains loyal to the Saints years after they have disbanded and wears a purple hat to symbolize this. He even gets himself shanked just to get a chance to speak with the boss. (Who at this point was just an (admittedly very high ranking) former member of the gang and not its official leader yet.}
 * Young Gun
 * Nice Hat
 * Undying Loyalty: Remains loyal to the Saints years after they have disbanded and wears a purple hat to symbolize this. He even gets himself shanked just to get a chance to speak with the boss. (Who at this point was just an (admittedly very high ranking) former member of the gang and not its official leader yet.}
 * Young Gun
 * Young Gun

Pierce Washington
"Played By: Arif S Kinchen"

One of the Saints' lieutenants, Pierce starts off as an efficient if rather whiny tactician who keeps having ideas taken from him and is rarely, if ever, given any respect. By the time of The Third however, while he's still a bit of a Butt Monkey, he gets way more respect and is more of a slickster type. In his free time, he enjoys playing chess and listening - and occasionally singing - to classical music and soft R&B.

"JOHNNY GAT and SHAUNDI are pop-culture icons. And Pierce... Well, who gives a fuck about Pierce?"
 * Ambiguously Gay: Has some fruity mannerisms at times, but is either mildly Camp Straight or bisexual, given how he was about to score with a stripper in the third game.
 * Badass: So much so he's one of the chief lieutenants of Third Street Saints since the second game.
 * Badass in a Nice Suit: Drops his old gangsta style clothes in favor of a more professional look in the third game.
 * Black Best Friend: Shown more in The Third, with him and the Boss
 * Butt Monkey: His love of classical music is mocked, and his plans are either ignored or credited to Shaundi.
 * Though it should be noted he is still one of the best fighters of the Saints and Boss values his support in missions. He/she also remarks how he is far above Shaundi in that regard.
 * He's still one in The Third, but less of one. It even gets lampshaded in the intro:


 * Relatively AVERTED if you choose to
 * Nice Hat
 * Smart People Play Chess: Is seen playing a few games with Oleg over the course of the game and is strongly implied to be winning each time, though he never does get a chance to actually finish his game...
 * The Strategist: Although he never gets any credit for it in the second game. Is given somewhat more respect in the third game and beyond.

Oleg Kirlov
"Played By: Mark Allen Stuart"

A rather massive ex-KGB super soldier who was captured by the Syndicate and cloned in the hopes of developing a private army. He gets freed by the Saints during the raid on the Syn Building at the end of Act I.

"Would you prefer a more manly shade.....like purple?""
 * Awesome but Impractical: As a homie, Oleg is an incredibly tough, deceptively fast and devastatingly powerful melee fighter, inflicting at least as much damage with his fists alone as the other homies can inflict with their guns. However, despite being virtually unstoppable, his sheer size means he cannot ride on most vehicles alongside the Boss. Also, because he is exclusively a melee fighter, he is a common target of friendly fire. If shot or hit by an explosion caused by the Boss, he'll get upset and leave the party; not only that, but he'll attack the Boss, and failure to beat a quick time event to dodge his punch means instant death to the Boss, regardless of how many health points s/he has left.
 * The Big Guy: Very big. When you call him as a homie, a random mook Saint drives up in a Criminal pick-up truck with Oleg riding in the bed of it.
 * Apparently his size has caused him to hate the mini car Emu, which he tells Boss to destroy at any given opportunity as one of the challenges on Saints Book. He admits it might be irrational.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Has some very witty dry one liners, like when he needles Pierce over how uncomfortable he is over seeing Oleg naked by asking if has something to be ashamed of. He also snarks about The Boss not liking the Syndicate's love of pink with:


 * Geeky Turn On: He admits he's got a crush on Kinzie, since he considers her an intellectual equal - he manages to finish a few of her sentences and she talks a lot in Techno Babble.
 * Genius Bruiser: Don't let his appearance fool you... he is well-spoken, intellectual, and an excellent tactician.
 * He and Pierce are seen playing chess against each other.
 * If he's around as a homie he even offers to teach the boss Latin, saying it's the only language intellectuals should be speaking in.
 * Husky Russkie: AND HOW.
 * Naked on Arrival: When you first meet him.
 * Smart People Play Chess
 * The Spock: He'll often defend the most logical or pragmatic solutions to some of the crossroads in the game. For example, he suggests that the Saints keep Loren's building to themselves instead of destroying it and that they also keep the chemical that creates zombies so that Saints can manufacture their own zombies instead of getting rid of it all like Mayor Reynolds asked. Pierce gets to play The McCoy to Oleg's The Spock when
 * Wrestler in All of Us: Like fellow Russian giant Zangief, Oleg can do the Pile Driver to finish off enemy Brutes.

Kinzie Kensington
"Played By: Natalie Lander"

A former FBI intelligence agent who's employment was terminated after the Deckers framed her for an unknown crime. She becomes the Saints' new tech expert after they rescue her from a Deckers-owned barge.

"Kinzie: "Sure, let down your guard and suddenly, they make it look like you're selling secrets to Mossad and moonlighting as a dominatrix.""
 * Adorkable
 * Ax Crazy: Starts getting in touch with this side of herself in Gat Out Of Hell.
 * Badass: Becomes one by the fourth game, and definitely in Gat Out Of Hell.
 * Took a Level in Badass: In GOOH, she taking on The Legions of Hell with Johnny Gat.
 * Alliterative Name
 * Brains and Bondage: In the cut scene before rescuing Zimos from a BDSM club called Safeword she says "Mine's 'tea cup'." In the cut scene before "Learning Computer" she's shown to own a Gimp mask.
 * Cassandra Truth: Reveals what the Deckers fabricated to get her terminated in an off-handed manner.

"Kinzie I'm not a Deus ex machina you know!"
 * Covert Pervert: As well as being a regular at a BDSM club she has a bust wearing a leather gimp mask, her own Penetrator dildo bat (which Pierce whacks The Boss with!), dresses Boss as a sex doll and mentions using electronics to get herself off. Kenzie being Kenzie, the toilet and sex doll avatars in the  http://deckers.die  mission were probably for shits and giggles.
 * Deus Ex Machina: Discussed and defied.

"Kinzie: I could have been at home on my computer, but noooo... someone suggested that I "grow as a person"..."
 * Dueling Hackers: With Matt Miller during some of the Deckers missions.
 * Genius Slob: If you have her and  as homies at the same time it's revealed that Kinzie doesn't know how to wash her hair.
 * Hacker Cave: Her warehouse crib is set up as this.
 * Hikikomori: In her first post rescue mission she states outright that she hates people. When she gets shot at she might say "This is what I get for going outside!" and one Heli Assault mission ends with her declaring that she's going to shut herself away for a week..


 * Hollywood Nerd: Type II. For a computer geek, she's quite the looker.
 * Lampshade Hanging: Will call out Zimos' inconsistent use of his microphone staff when the two are called as Homies together.
 * Meganekko
 * Playful Hacker
 * Properly Paranoid: Constantly works without sleep during the Deckers missions to keep them from getting the upper hand. Justified since they've already cost her her job in the FBI and she wants payback.
 * Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In one level of heli assault she has to stop for petrol, when Boss asks how she forgot she says she was busy figuring out how to DESTROY AN ENTIRE GANG!
 * Room Full of Crazy: Kinzie's room in her lair is full of newspaper clippings of sittings of to aliens. There is also a lot of Ultor related stuff.
 * She Knows Too Much: Actually knows the Boss's name. All the Boss can do is tell her to keep it to herself.
 * Slap Slap Kiss: If you try to romance Kinzie in the fourth game, she will punch you in the face before going down on you.
 * Techno Babble: Kinzie has a tendency to spout out scientific/technological terms that the Boss has no idea what it means. Even when asked to talk in Layman's Terms, she'll lapse back into this in no time flat.
 * Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In the debut trailer, she's seen typing away on a keyboard while the Boss and Johnny get into a firefight. Her only response is to shake her head and continue typing.
 * Fridge Brilliance: If the club is being attacked by the Syndicate, Kinzie's likely too busy stopping a Digital Attack from the Deckers to care about the firefight.

Angel De La Muerte
"Played By: Hulk Hogan"

A former luchadore who was once part of the Pale Horsemen tag-team with Killbane. The two formed the Luchadores gang, but


 * Actor Allusion: If you have Angel as a homie, he'll sometimes yell, "We're taking over!"
 * Badass: His missions are about making the Boss into one that can take on Killbane, and he advocates stuff like getting hit by moving vehicles to toughen oneself to discomfort and driving around with a tiger in the passenger seat of your car to eliminate the fear impulse. And it WORKS.
 * Hulk Hogan: His voice actor.
 * In the Hood: Likely used to hide his face after he was
 * Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Despite being obviously Hispanic, Hogan makes no attempt to put any accent in his voice.
 * Double points for irony, Hulk Hogan IS Hispanic.
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy: He stays in a dingy casino to remind him of what Killbane took from him. He rushes after Killbane in the ending regardless of your actions. And he is affectionate to Shaundi because she had become a Blood Knight.
 * Training from Hell: Sets the Boss through various dangerous "training sessions" to prepare him/her for fighting Killbane, including making him/her drive around the town with a tiger in the backseat to "confront fear" as he puts it.
 * Wrestler in All of Us: Obviously.

Zimos
"Played By: Alex Desert"

An old school pimp whose heavy smoking habit lead to a tracheotomy, although this hasn't stopped him from doing so. He was once friends with the DeWynter sisters, but after a falling-out they trapped him in a Morning Star run BDSM club.


 * Auto-Tune: His mechanical larynx has this installed in it.
 * Badass: As proven by him being willing to run into a heavy firefight despite being in a hard to move in gimp suit with a fake pony tail still shoved up his ass.
 * Badass Grandpa: He's fairly old, but still spry for his age.
 * Handicapped Badass: Has to talk through a mechanical larynx since a massive smoking habit fucked up his trachea, though it doesn't make him any less capable in combat.
 * Dirty Old Man: He's Steelport's oldest pimp. The sign outside his crib says that he's been in business since 1975. The game allegedly takes place in the mid-2010s.
 * Ethical Slut: In more than one way. While he is an unrepentant pimp and refers to his girls as hos and bitches (and is still nailing women left and right as evidenced in one cutscene), he does respect them enough to even have the Boss do some mission to rescue some prostitutes from the Syndicate so he can give them the same employment, but much better working conditions.
 * Naked on Arrival: Naked enough. You first encounter him as a prisoner in a BDSM room called "the Pony Show" with him wearing a gimp harness and bridle.
 * Pimp Duds: Including a gold walking cane shaped like the top half of a mic stand, with the microphone grip functioning as his mechanical larynx.
 * Sunglasses at Night

Benjamin King
"Played By: Michael Clarke Duncan"


 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Big Bad
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Even Evil Has Standards: He wanted no part of Stillwater's drug trade.
 * Genius Bruiser
 * Not So Different: He says this of Julius and himself, but there's a subtle difference why he's successful and Julius ultimately won't be.
 * : At the end of the first game.
 * Scary Black Man: Voiced by and partially modeled on Michael Clark Duncan, this was inevitable.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Connections
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Initially.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Connections
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Initially.

Warren Williams
"Played By: Ogie Banks"


 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Bald of Evil
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * The Dragon
 * Klingon Promotion: When he ousts King out of the gang.
 * The Starscream
 * Klingon Promotion: When he ousts King out of the gang.
 * The Starscream

Anthony Green
"Played By: Terrence C Carson"


 * Bald of Evil
 * The Brute
 * Dumb Muscle
 * Scary Black Man
 * Scary Black Man

Tanya Winters
"Played By: Mila Kunis"


 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Evil Genius
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: The manual for the first game mentions that she was only a small time ho before joining the Vice Kings. Afterwards she began sleeping her way up the chain of command.
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Smug Snake:
 * Really Gets Around
 * The Starscream
 * Stripperiffic
 * White Gang-Bangers
 * The Starscream
 * Stripperiffic
 * White Gang-Bangers

Hector Lopez
"Played By: Joaquim de Almeida"


 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Beard of Evil
 * Big Bad
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars
 * In-Series Nickname: Kimo
 * Mismatched Eyes: One brown, one clear
 * Sibling Team: With Angelo
 * Mismatched Eyes: One brown, one clear
 * Sibling Team: With Angelo

Angelo Lopez
"Played By: Freddy Rodriguez"


 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Big Bad
 * The Dragon
 * Hot-Blooded
 * In-Series Nickname: Lobo
 * Sibling Team: Hector
 * Testosterone Poisoning
 * Villainous Breakdown
 * Testosterone Poisoning
 * Villainous Breakdown

Victor Rodriguez
"Played By: Danny Trejo"


 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * The Brute
 * In-Series Nickname: Tanque
 * Made of Iron
 * Stone Wall
 * Stone Wall

Luz Avalos
"Played By: Andrea Zafra"


 * All Women Love Shoes
 * Anti-Villain
 * Dark Chick
 * Demoted to Extra: Saints Row 2
 * Gold Digger
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * Running Gag: Her obsession with shoes (outdated shoes at that).
 * Running Gag: Her obsession with shoes (outdated shoes at that).

Joseph Price
"Played By: Gregory Price"


 * Bald of Evil
 * The Dragon
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Looks like Vin Diesel from The Fast and the Furious
 * Pet the Dog: He had a soft spot for Donnie and he really did think of him as a friend.
 * Sunglasses at Night: Unless you only go after the Rollerz during the day, which wouldn't be very practical.
 * Villainous Breakdown
 * White Gang-Bangers
 * Villainous Breakdown
 * White Gang-Bangers

William Sharp
"Played By: David Carradine"


 * Badass in a Nice Suit: While he mostly lets Joseph handle the physical aspects of running the gang he isn't afraid to get his own hands dirty.
 * Big Bad
 * Evil Genius
 * Evil Uncle
 * Hypercompetent Sidekick
 * The Man Behind the Man
 * Smug Snake
 * Smug Snake

Donnie Wong (also a member of the The Brotherhood in Saints Row 2)
"Played By: Andrew Kishino"


 * Anti-Villain: He's just a mechanic, but since he's also a weakling, he's a good target whenever the Boss needs to grill someone for info.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Grease Monkey
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
 * Mr. Fixit
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The reason why he survived both Saints Row 1 and 2.

Maero
"Played By: Michael Dorn"

"Boss: "Where's your crew? *Puts a gun to Maero's temple* "I could kill you right now." Maero: "No." *Stands up to reveal his full height* "You couldn't.""
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Badass Boast: Actually gets the boss to back down from a fight with one of these.


 * BFG
 * The Brute
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Gets upset with Jessica when she makes an offensive remark about Carlos, although its possible he just didn't like her insulting the guys he just invited over to negotiate with.
 * Huge Guy
 * Large and In Charge
 * Tattooed Crook
 * White Gang-Bangers
 * Tattooed Crook
 * White Gang-Bangers

Matt
"Played By: Anthony Pulcini"


 * Anti-Villain
 * Nepotism: Only in the gang because his best friend, Maero gave him a job as a tattoo artist. He even tells the Boss that Maero deliberately keeps him out of the loop so that he won't get mixed up in the violence.
 * Non-Action Guy: He's just a scrimshaw. The only time he tries to fight ends up getting him
 * Tattooed Crook
 * Tattooed Crook
 * Tattooed Crook

Jessica Parish
"Played By: Jaime Pressly"


 * Affably Evil: Up to a point.
 * Dark Chick
 * Not So Harmless:
 * One of the Boys: Or so she tries.
 * Rich Bitch: It's implied she was one of these.
 * Tattooed Crook
 * Tiny Girl: Compared to Maero
 * White Gang-Bangers
 * Tattooed Crook
 * Tiny Girl: Compared to Maero
 * White Gang-Bangers

Shogo Akuji
"Played By: Yuri Lowenthal"


 * Badass Biker: The Ronin mooks probably see him as one. In reality he's just a spoiled punk who screws up fighting the Saints so bad his father has to fly in from Japan just to try and clean up his mess.
 * Inadequate Inheritor
 * Jerkass: He's a petty, stupid, vindictive punk who doesn't have any idea how to effectively use the resources at his command.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Non-Action Guy: Spends the whole game giving orders and living off the Ronin's success.
 * Royal Brat: Spends his days living off the success of his father's gang, and when Jyunichi shows him up in front of his old man, he.
 * Samurai
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
 * Too Dumb to Live: After sabotaging his own gang, he tries to personally carry out a hit against Gat and the Boss at . This makes Gat very unhappy.
 * It gets better love.
 * Yuri Lowenthal
 * Too Dumb to Live: After sabotaging his own gang, he tries to personally carry out a hit against Gat and the Boss at . This makes Gat very unhappy.
 * It gets better love.
 * Yuri Lowenthal
 * Yuri Lowenthal

Kazuo Akuji
"Played By: Steve Blum"

"Akuji: "When I escape, the WORLD WILL NOT BE BIG ENOUGH FOR YOU TO HIDE IN!""
 * Abusive Father: Frequently tells Shogo right to his face that he fills him with shame.
 * Badass Boast: Gives one


 * Badass Grandpa: It may not seem apparent at first, but he is probably the most dangerous of all the rival gang leaders.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * The Dreaded
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Samurai
 * Yakuza
 * Samurai
 * Yakuza
 * Yakuza

Jyunichi
"Played By: Brian Tee"


 * Anti-Villain
 * Bald of Evil
 * The Dragon
 * Dual-Wielding
 * Even Evil Has Standards
 * Honor Before Reason: He team-kills a Ronin mook by throwing one of his swords at them, for daring to try shooting Gat during their impromptu duel.
 * Hypercompetent Sidekick
 * Katanas Are Just Better: And he has two of them.
 * Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: With Gat. And Boss. What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?
 * Like a Son to Me: Kazuo holds him in much higher regard than Shogo.
 * Noble Top Enforcer
 * Samurai
 * Undying Loyalty: Even when Shogo makes an ass out of himself.
 * Undying Loyalty: Even when Shogo makes an ass out of himself.

The General
"Played By: Greg Eagles"


 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Bald of Evil
 * Disproportionate Retribution: If you steal from him, you'll lose a hand, you fail him, you'll lose an ear, you really mess up and you'll get burned alive.
 * Evil Smoking: Enjoys a good cigar.
 * Evil Sounds Deep
 * Faux Affably Evil
 * General Badass: While a Non-Action Guy, his name is The General.
 * Non-Action Guy: Despite being the head of one of the most violent and malicious gangs ever to invade Stilwater, all he seems to do is ride around in his limo all day giving orders to his underlings.
 * Scary Black Man
 * Wicked Cultured
 * You Have Failed Me...: And for that you'll lose an ear, hand, or be burned alive.
 * You Have Failed Me...: And for that you'll lose an ear, hand, or be burned alive.

Mr. Sunshine
"Played By: Phil LaMarr"


 * The Aggressive Drug Dealer: To the point that he shoots a junkie just because he said he might buy from the Saints.
 * Ax Crazy: Probably the creepiest bastard in the series.
 * The Dragon
 * Ear Ache: The general is NOT pleased with his repeated failure.
 * Hollywood Voodoo
 * Knife Nut: Machetes, specifically.
 * Machete Mayhem: Its his Weapon of Choice.
 * Made of Iron
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Phil LaMarr
 * Religion Is Magic: His voodoo gives him telekinesis.
 * Scary Black Man: Really scary.
 * Undying Loyalty: To the General.
 * Religion Is Magic: His voodoo gives him telekinesis.
 * Scary Black Man: Really scary.
 * Undying Loyalty: To the General.

DJ Veteran Child
"Played By: Neil Patrick Harris"


 * Anti-Villain: He's just a drug addict that got in too deep.
 * Badass Boast: "I'm the triple-platinum Veteran Child."
 * Cool Shades
 * Dirty Coward
 * Minion with an F In Evil
 * Neil Patrick Harris
 * New Age Retro Hippie
 * Nice Hat
 * Smug Snake: He's in way over his head with both the Samedi and the Saints, and it shows.
 * The Stoner
 * Trash Talk: So much trash talk.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Has one when
 * White Gang-Bangers
 * White Gang-Bangers

Mark Gabby

 * C-List Fodder
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Satellite Character
 * We Hardly Knew Ye

General Tropes

 * Multinational Team: The Syndicate is headed by a Belgian, and it's co leaders are British and an American/Hispanic. It's rank and file draw from the same ethnic groups, and has international branches.
 * Pragmatic Villainy: Loren's original plan was to co-opt the Saints into the fold, offering them keeping the Syndicate off their backs (and possible entree as a member of the organization) in exchange for a cut of their profit as opposed to attempting a hostile takeover, which made practical business sense. Only after the Saints go "Fuck. That." do Loren and his associates decide to play hardball.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Connections: Loren makes it clear he has far more connections than the Saints and is not shy in proving it.

Eddie "Killbane" Pryor
"Played By: Rick D Wasserman"


 * Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He begs the Boss not to unmask him and even offers to teach the Boss the secret of his Apoca-Fists in exchange to show how desperate he is.
 * All There in the Manual: The games guide explains that he uses steroids to keep up with the younger wrestlers, though that he suffers roid rage because of it. This would explain alot.
 * Bad Boss: When Matt suggested that the DeWynters take over for Loren Killbane smacks him with a chair. He beats the living shit out of his own gang when he loses to Boss in Murderbrawl (even if you choose to let him keep his mask), Yeah... not the best man to work with.
 * Berserk Button: See below. If first meeting him, or in a very public setting, he might let you off with a simple correction, but keep doing it...
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: He was unmasked.
 * The Brute
 * Do Not Call Me Paul: Hates being called Eddie. He accepts it once during a radio interview but Kiki could not take the hint and keeps calling him that to get under his skin, which leads to him killing her. Might also be seen as a Shout-Out.
 * Genius Bruiser: After, Killbane proves to be a strategist with—fittingly for a wrestler—a good sense for public opinion. His only real weakness is his temper, which makes all that fly out the window.
 * Hannibal Lecture: He says that the Boss should thank him and the Syndicate for helping the Saints rediscover their killer instinct after having "sold out".
 * Heel: Killbane was one in the ring, which evolved to outside the ring too.
 * Large Ham: Loves to make egotistical and grandiose speeches about how great he is.
 * Made of Iron
 * Montreal Screwjob: He refers to this as his plan for the Saints, where he portrays them celebrating his attack on the Hughes bridge and blames them for it.
 * Pet the Dog:
 * Small Name, Big Ego: It has even been said that his grip on reality is directly proportional to his fame.
 * The Boss even says that Killbane's ego is bigger than his/hers.
 * Tsundere: To Matt Miller. One second he treats him like a little brother, the next he's smacking him in the face with a steel chair.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Goes through this if he's unmasked. Or even if he isn't.
 * Wicked Cultured: Despite the whole wrestler/crime lord job and being rather insane, he actually comes off as rather intelligent and well-learned when not angered.
 * Would Kill a Girl:
 * Wicked Cultured: Despite the whole wrestler/crime lord job and being rather insane, he actually comes off as rather intelligent and well-learned when not angered.
 * Would Kill a Girl:

Matt Miller
"Played By: Yuri Lowenthal"

"Kit Harrison: Wahey, Tron guy! Matt Miller! He laughs 'cos he's a cyber punk!"
 * Ain't Too Proud to Beg:
 * Alliterative Name
 * The Cracker
 * Dirty Coward: Don't let him fool you, in face-to-face confrontations he's a complete weenie.
 * Evil Brit: Not to mention his obnoxiousness over voice chat. As summed up by The Pixel Show within seconds of his introduction trailer:

"Matt: "Don't you get it? I'm God in here!" Boss: "That's just fine, 'cause in the real world, you're just a bitch with a keyboard.""
 * A God Am I: To a certain extent, in the Deckers trailer he says "Don't you get it? I'm God in here" when Boss confronts him in cyberspace. He also taunts the Boss after causing their helicopter to crash referring to himself as a "cybergod".
 * GIFT: This exchange sums things up nicely.


 * Boss might even be put off by his attitude enough to comment she'll never let her kids play video games. Keep in mind that over the course of the games s\he has told numerous authority figures to go fuck themselves, trolls the other gangs and even the Saints, kidnapped a gang leader's girlfriend so she could be stuffed in the boot of her car and crushed at a monster truck show (and Boss laughs when the boyfriend makes the discovery) and possibly throw Julius' good intentions back in his face before laughing as s\he kills him. Yeah, Matt is that much of a douche.
 * Humongous Mecha: His avatar in cyberspace is a giant draconic robot/suit of armor.
 * Interface Screw: When the Boss enters the Decker's user net, Matt can do things like induce lag or invert controls to make things harder for him/her.
 * Kick the Dog: During the mission Deckers.Die the "Debug Screen" includes the message
 * Non-Action Guy: The only time he even bothers fighting is in cyberspace where he has several advantages, while in the real world he is constantly getting kicked around by Killbane.
 * One-Winged Angel: His cyberform.
 * Reasonable Gang Leader: Is willing to negotiate with the boss and offer him deals that, unlike Maero's, are quite reasonable. So reasonable, in fact, that the boss takes him up on his second deal. (The player has the choice of agreeing to the first or not.)
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
 * Teen Genius: Bizarrely, Matt Miller is only 16 according to Kinzie.
 * Teens Are Monsters
 * Weak but Skilled: Likely the only reason he's kept around is because of his hacking skills.
 * Yuri Lowenthal
 * Yuri Lowenthal

Phillipe Loren
"Played By: Jacques Hennequet"


 * Affably Evil: He is a gentleman and appears to have been, if not liked, at least well respected by his fellow Syndicate members. He dotes on Kiki and Viola as if they were his daughters, and Viola even remembers him fondly in a conversation with Mayor Reynolds if the player character has both of them as homies. When Mayor Reynolds refers to him as French by mistake, Viola corrects him by saying that he was actually Belgian.
 * Badass in a Nice Suit: Makes sense, his entire gang is basically the Steelport mafia. Even his mooks dress nice.
 * Belgian Jerk: Only if you make him mad. Otherwise, he can be disarmingly polite.
 * Berserk Button: Hates being mistaken for French, especially when people who know his real nationality (Belgian) insist on getting it wrong.
 * Big Bad: Played with. He gets hyped in the trailers as the Big Bad. In the final release, he is this...
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy: Tells his men to kill the Saints right after they turn down his deal. When they escape he has Matt drain their funds so they won't have any money to spend in Steelport.
 * Eyepatch After Time Skip: Gained after recovering from Gat slamming his head into an airplane window.
 * Knife Nut: Takes out a large security guard with a knife in the trailer and also stabs Johnny Gat with one.
 * My Nationality Is Not French
 * Restraining Bolt: Appears to have been one for the rest of the Syndicate leaders, who do NOT get along very well without him.
 * My Nationality Is Not French
 * Restraining Bolt: Appears to have been one for the rest of the Syndicate leaders, who do NOT get along very well without him.

Kiki and Viola DeWynter
"Played By: Megan Hollingshead & Sasha Grey"

Twin sisters with Master's degrees in economics. They run the Morning Star's human trafficking and prostitution rings, while fronting as art dealers.


 * Action Girl: While they're both business school graduates, the sisters aren't afraid to get their hands dirty.
 * Brainy Brunette: Both twins are this.
 * Co-Dragons: Loren's right hand women: his personal assistants and the heiresses to his empire.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Viola.
 * Defied Trope: Their characters were a deliberate exercise in this according to the developers. Instead of being the cliche subordinates of an older man, they are instead his quite capable right hands and legitimate successors to his empire. Comments by Viola about Loren further reveal he regarded them like daughters.
 * Disproportionate Retribution: The reason why their friendship with Zimos ended and they turned him into a sex slave?  Being mad is understandable, but dang.
 * They both are dead by Gat out of Hell, but not for long.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: While otherwise identical, Kiki appears to be the most outspoken and defiant of the two, . Viola is more cold and rational by comparison.
 * They both are dead by Gat out of Hell, but not for long.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: While otherwise identical, Kiki appears to be the most outspoken and defiant of the two, . Viola is more cold and rational by comparison.
 * They both are dead by Gat out of Hell, but not for long.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: While otherwise identical, Kiki appears to be the most outspoken and defiant of the two, . Viola is more cold and rational by comparison.

Dane Vogel
"Played By: Jay Mohr"


 * Big Bad: Turns out to be the main antagonist of the second game.
 * Big Good: In the fourth game DLC.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * The Chessmaster
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Dirty Coward
 * Evil Plan:Strike a deal with the winning gang, get credit for cleaning up Stilwater.
 * Heel Face Turn: In the DLC expansion to the fourth game.
 * : His ultimate plan.
 * Let's You and Him Fight: To all the gangs in Saints Row 2
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In the fourth game's DLC, Vogel winds up in Hell (due to events in SR2) and is wise enough to realize he can't take over Hell completely and instead offers to assist Satan, who treats him like a minor peon at best even though Vogel was enterprising enough to essentially rebuild Ultor from scratch and had clear business savvy that Satan snubs. This is what prompts Dane to look for ways to undermine Satan's authority since.
 * Smug Snake: Extremely so.
 * Though by the fourth game DLC he's lost quite a bit of this.
 * Took a Level in Kindness: In, of all places, Hell, in the fourth game standalone DLC.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Though by the fourth game DLC he's lost quite a bit of this.
 * Took a Level in Kindness: In, of all places, Hell, in the fourth game standalone DLC.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Tera Patrick
"Played By: Tera Patrick"


 * Action Girl
 * Hollywood Nerd
 * Hot Scientist
 * Nerds Are Sexy
 * Revenge: Against Ultor
 * Special Guest
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist:.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Eric Gryphon
"Played By: Clancy Brown"


 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Enemy Mine: Him and the protagonist against.
 * You Are in Command Now:


 * Corrupt Corporate Executive: He sells everything from nuclear weapons to toxic waste.
 * Mr. Fixit
 * Smug Snake
 * Wicked Cultured
 * Smug Snake
 * Wicked Cultured

Alderman Richard Hughes
"Played By: Clancy Brown"


 * Bald of Evil
 * The Chessmaster
 * Clancy Brown
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Scare Campaign: By using the Saints to do his dirty work.
 * Sleazy Politician
 * Xanatos Gambit
 * Sleazy Politician
 * Xanatos Gambit

Aisha
"Played By: Sy Smith"


 * All Girls Want Bad Boys: She was Johnny Gat's girlfriend.
 * Housewife: The second game.
 * Idol Singer: The first game until.
 * Housewife: The second game.
 * Idol Singer: The first game until.
 * Idol Singer: The first game until.

Jane Valderama
"Played By: Lauri Hendler"

"Tonight's top story: Award-winning reporter kicks some ass!" Jane initially hires the Saints to create sensational news for her to report on. If the player mugs fifty people, she'll volunteer to be an 'embedded reporter' in the gang war,and become available as a homie.

"Causing mayhem is better than reporting on it!"
 * Action Girl
 * Demoted To Extra: By the third game, she is relegated to giving radio summaries of most missions and has a brief cameo in one mission where she interviews Killbane.
 * Fish Out of Water
 * Going for the Big Scoop - Instead of carrying the Distress Ball, she's Becoming the Mask; thinking and acting more like the Saints she's reporting on.


 * Intrepid Reporter: Intended as a parody of sorts, but she's still reasonably competent at her job.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": The developers have been inconsistent with spelling of her surname, even within the same game. In the second game, it's spelled "Valderama" in the homies listing and "Valderamma" in the subtitles. In the third game, it's spelled "Valderamma" in the assassination request and "Valderrama" in the news broadcast shown in one of the endings.

Wong Shen Tai
"Wong: "You talk too much.""
 * Arch Enemy: Kazuo Akuji. He also despises Shogo because he caused the death of his beloved dog, Sadie.
 * Ascended Extra: Was in both games, but played a major role against the Ronin in Saints Row 2
 * Badass Grandpa: He was able to hold his own against Kazuo long enough for the Boss to arrive.
 * Completely Unnecessary Translator: He has a translator follow him around, but he doesn't need him as he can understand and speak English (albeit with a heavy accent) and even shoots his translator in the leg when he mistranslates one of his words.
 * Gratuitous English: Speaks mostly Mandarin Chinese, while having an interpreter translate.
 * Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: Before their fight, Kazuo boasts that Wong should be thankful that his death will be merciful compared to what he has planned for the Saints. Wong's responce?


 * Revolvers Are Just Better
 * The Triads and the Tongs

Manuel Orejuela
"Played By: Carlos Ferra"


 * Bald of Evil: He is a drug dealer after all.
 * The Cartel
 * Dirty Old Man: Making the moves on Luz Avalos.
 * Expy: Of Ricardo Diaz
 * The Ghost: In Saints Row 2
 * Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist

Joshua "Josh" Birk
"Played By: Andrew Bowen"

An actor set to star as a member of The Saints in an upcoming movie and the star of Nyte Blayde. To get the real experience of being a Saint, he tags along on a bank heist with The Boss, Johnny Gat and Shaundi (who he has a massive crush on).

"Shaundi: Boss you have to get me out of here! He's proposed to me six times! Can I kill him? Please god tell me I can kill him."
 * Abhorrent Admirer: His crush on Shaundi is emphatically not reciprocated. If you call them as homies together his attempts at flirting are met with threats of violence.
 * Disproportionate Retribution: When Shaundi meets up with him after the bank heist she wants to kill him. Not because he got them caught however, because he's hitting on her.

"Shaundi: Josh! Are you trying to get us all jail time?! Josh: Oh...I don't wanna be some dude's bitch!"
 * Large Ham: In his Nyte Blayde persona. Not that he isn't one already...
 * Lethal Joke Character: As a homie, he will be equipped with a stun gun or, as Nyteblayde, a weak pistol. However, much like the other homies, he can pick up weapons left on the ground by dead enemies, meaning that he can soon enough be equipped with an SMG, a shotgun or maybe even a rocket launcher. His car of choice, The Temptress, is also one of the fastest in the game.
 * Love Makes You Crazy: Willing to stay with the Saints after they kidnapped him just so that he could be with Shaundi, after which he'll be a recruitable homie (both as his regular self and as Nyte Blayde).
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Has an obsession with Shaundi and tries to use his acting as a tragic vampire-hunting vampire to woo her. Sadly for him she's basically turned into Gat and just wants to kill him, even pleading with the Boss to do so.
 * Meaningful Name: His last name is a different spelling of the word "berk", which means "idiot". Rhyming slang makes it "berkley hunt", or cunt. He lives up to the name.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He bails in the opening mission after accidentally setting off an alarm.


 * Tag-Along Actor: The reason why he's with the Saints in the beginning.

Professor Genki
"Played By: Yuri Lowenthal"

The Host of Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax, the most popular TV show in Steelport.


 * Ax Crazy: Professor Genki can be found in the city as a surprisingly powerful NPC that goes around killing random people.
 * The Genkibowl VII DLC pretty much confirm this.
 * Cool Mask
 * Malevolent Masked Man
 * Cheshire Cat Grin
 * Crazy Awesome: Just play his game show ONCE and this becomes extremely obvious.
 * Dark Messiah: The live action Webisode seem to suggest this and so does the Genkibowl VII DLC.
 * Deadly Game: Combination of the other participants trying to kill you and the course having numerous DeathTraps. It's basically Everything Trying to Kill You in a parody of Japanese gameshows.
 * Disproportionate Retribution: According to his publicist in Genkibowl VII, if you look at him in the eyes, you'll wake up in a prison camp in North Korea.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Shooting pandas is considered unethical and gets you a penalty.
 * Game Show Host: In the same vein as Takeshi's Castle, but with lethal obstacles.
 * Kill It with Fire: His personal car comes with multible built-in flamethrowers.
 * Made of Iron
 * Mad Scientist: Definitely plays the part, and if he did invent the Octopus Gun and Manapult then he really is one.
 * Mascot: He is the unofficial mascot of Saints Row The Third. The player can have homies dressed up like him as well.
 * Metal Slime: Occasionally appears wandering the world as a mascot and is borderline Immune to Bullets.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: For all his awesomeness, a satchel charge placed on him will cause him to run around with arms flailing about like any other NPC. Running him over with a vehicle and leaving it on top also works.

Monica Hughes
The wife  of Richard Hughes. She is Mayor of Stilwater in Saints Row 2 and a U.S. Senator in Saints Row The Third. She is the one who spearheads the STAG Initiative.

"Kia: Nyte Blayde's the face of STAG? Why don't you just put someone in a fucking deer suit? Monica: Hearts and minds will win the war, my dear. Cyrus: Shock and awe wins wars, Senator. Authorize the Daedalus and this will all be over."
 * Ascended Extra: Played a very minor role in the 2nd game, but became one of the major antagonists of the 3rd.
 * Enemy Mine: In the second game, she hires the player to spray human feces all over the place in her grudge against Ultor. In the third game, she works against the Saints.
 * Slave to PR: As a politician, she tries to keep public opinion of herself positive.
 * She also believes this is the way ("hearts and minds") to win the war against gangs and uses Nyte Blayde to aid STAG's public image. Cyrus disagrees with her.


 * Crosses over with Pragmatic Villainy in that if you take the route of disarming the bombs, she points out to Cyrus that his forces declared martial law and destroyed half the city, while the Saints foiled a terrorist plot to blow up a monument. She may not like the Saints, but she knows when a battle isn't worth fighting.
 * Sleazy Politician: Cheerleaders can be heard saying "It's okay, we won't lose, we'll just cheat like Mayor Hughes!"
 * The Unfought: She is a behind-the-scenes antagonist to the Saints.

Commander Cyrus Temple
"Played By: Tim Thomerson"

The commander of STAG brought in to deal with the gang war in Steelport.

""I've been a soldier longer then you've been alive!""
 * Badass Grandpa: In his own words during his boss fight:

"Kia: Nyte Blayde's the face of STAG? Why don't you just put someone in a fucking deer suit? Monica: Hearts and minds will win the war, my dear. Cyrus: Shock and awe wins wars, Senator. Authorize the Daedalus and this will all be over."
 * Cassandra Truth: When fighting him he simply cannot believe the Boss' (true) claim that
 * Colonel Kilgore: He believes "shock and awe" will win the war against gangs.


 * Hero Antagonist: He is aiming to defeat a street gang with a reputation for murder, drug dealing, and all sorts of other illegal activities, after all.
 * Hypocrite: When he uses as justification for his extreme tactics, he conveniently forgets to mention that
 * Straw Man Has a Point: Temple may be an absolute hard ass, but he relates the story of what happened to Jessica in the second game. As well as speaking out to gamers who were horrified at the sociopathy of that scene. Jane Valdarama (who can be a psychotically obsessed homie in the second game) is visibly shaken by what she's told.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Goes from having STAG as a presence to enforcing martial law, and if Kia is allowed to go terrorist he tries to blow up Steelport.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Goes from having STAG as a presence to enforcing martial law, and if Kia is allowed to go terrorist he tries to blow up Steelport.

Kia
Cyrus' second in command. She takes on most of the missions for STAG.


 * Action Girl:
 * Boat Lights: She has a messed up left eye, qualifying this trope.
 * Call Back:
 * The Dragon
 * Face Heel Turn:
 * False-Flag Operation:
 * Hot Amazon
 * Not So Heroic Antagonist: We can accept Cyrus trying to eliminate the gangs, and some of her actions are under his orders, instructions or with his authority.
 * Not So Stoic:
 * Punny Name: KIA, as in Killed in Action.
 * Not So Stoic:
 * Punny Name: KIA, as in Killed in Action.
 * Punny Name: KIA, as in Killed in Action.
 * Punny Name: KIA, as in Killed in Action.

Mayor Burt Reynolds
"Played By: Burt Reynolds"

"Burt Fucking Reynolds!?"

The renowned actor who also happens to be the mayor of Steelport.


 * Adam Westing
 * Dirty Old Man: Seen making out with a hooker in his introduction.
 * Subverted with Kinzie. Apparently she was with him, but he couldn't live up to her expectations.
 * Memetic Badass: In-universe example. Apparently has outsmarted Paramilitary groups before and is feared by even Loren. The Boss all but bows down in reverence upon realizing who he is.
 * Noodle Incident: Have Oleg and Burt as Homies at the same time and they'll mentioned having fought each other in Moscow.
 * Porn Stache: Goes without saying.
 * Ultimate Authority Mayor: As Viola notes, you don't fuck with the mayor.

Laura
A loving wife, mother, and drug dealer whom Playa helps out in the first game, after which she becomes a homie. She returns in the sequel to help the Saints against the Sons Of Somedi.

""I'm afraid to go into the city alone... because, well... I'm not POOR...""
 * Action Mom: You can even call her up as a homie in the first game. She brings a SHOTGUN with her.
 * Anti-Villain: Aside from the whole drug thing she's one of the most moral people in the city. When Boss breaks her out of jail she even leaves a nice note.
 * Ascended Extra: In the first game she's not much beyond a supporting character, but in the sequal she plays a larger role in helping bring down one of the rival gangs.
 * Happily Married: To her husband, Tobias.
 * Rich Bitch: Has a bit of this in the first game.

Tobias
"Played By: Brandon Keener"

Like his wife Laura he deals drugs in the first game and helps the Saints take out a rival gang in the sequel.


 * The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Though he chills out a lot by Saints Row 2.
 * Ascended Extra: Just an angry drug dealer in the first game, but vital to the Saints in the second.
 * Berserk Button: You don't ever steal from him, and you certainly never skim off the top. Billy learned this the hard way.
 * Happily Married: To his wife, Laura.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: Never seen with a shirt on in either game.

Jenny Jaros, a/k/a Princess Kwilanna
Boss's unfortunate co-star in the "Gangstas In Space" DLC who plays his love interest in the movie they are filming.


 * Absolute Cleavage: Not just her, but her entire race as well!
 * Action Girl: Holds her own in all of the fights she and Boss engage in. (It may be just a movie, but the actors are using lethal weapons.)
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
 * Beware the Nice Ones: In the first third of the DLC she is nothing but polite and friendly even when she gets treated like crap.
 * Damsel in Distress: During the first mission only. Once you free her she becomes a valuable partner.
 * Everything's Better with Princesses: Her character is a princess who is... fighting her own race because... they are all under mind control...? Or something? The script for the movie sucks.
 * Purple-Skinned Space Babe: Not really, but she plays one in the movie.
 * Hot Space Amazon: Naturally, many fans still find her extremely sexy, including perhaps Boss himself/herself..
 * Morality Pet: The Boss is generally quite supportive of her and often encourages her to stand up for herself and not take Zhen's bullshit.
 * Ray Gun: Both her and the Space Amazons (The enemies for the DLC, which are supposed to be the same alien race as she is.) use this as their weapon of choice.
 * Ray Gun: Both her and the Space Amazons (The enemies for the DLC, which are supposed to be the same alien race as she is.) use this as their weapon of choice.

Andy Zhen
The Jerkass director for the Gangstas in Space movie.


 * Asshole Victim: From the moment he first appears, you're waiting for his comeuppance.
 * Bad Boss: He has no qualm with killing his actors and crew off to make the movie look more realistic.
 * Jerkass
 * Prima Donna Director
 * Too Dumb to Live: Whoo boy... its one thing to treat one actor better than another, but this guy doesn't get that praising the Boss, and then immediately turning around and hurling abuse at Jenny right in front of the Boss, isn't a good idea.
 * Yes-Man: To the Boss. His mistake is that the Boss is aware there's a line between cooperating and straight-up ass-kissing.
 * Too Dumb to Live: Whoo boy... its one thing to treat one actor better than another, but this guy doesn't get that praising the Boss, and then immediately turning around and hurling abuse at Jenny right in front of the Boss, isn't a good idea.
 * Yes-Man: To the Boss. His mistake is that the Boss is aware there's a line between cooperating and straight-up ass-kissing.

Jimmy Torbitson
An amateur Mad Scientist whose experiments with recovered Saints DNA go horribly wrong in the DLC pack The Trouble With Clones, requiring Pierce and the Boss to intervene.


 * Extroverted Nerd: Socially inept, undoubtedly, but confident enough in his work that he actually tries to, and then has the guts to go directly to the Boss and spill everything he knows after it goes wrong.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Just look at what he did with a can of Saints Flow... god only knows what he could do if he had access to some high-end lab equipment...
 * Hollywood Nerd: Type 1, complete with spittle-spewing lisp and Nerd Glasses.
 * Teen Genius

A lumbering brute who


 * Made of Iron:
 * Sdrawkcab Name: Well, at least.
 * Made of Iron:
 * Sdrawkcab Name: Well, at least.