Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Difference between revisions

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The original ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' had three cities: Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. San Andreas was the last of these to feature a game of its own, and was expanded into an entire state. San Andreas is a [[Fictional Counterpart]] for California, with some elements from Nevada. It has three major cities: [[Los Angeles|Los Santos]], [[San Francisco|San Fierro]], and [[Viva Las Vegas|Las Venturas]]. It also has nearly a dozen small towns, and loads of land in between them.

=== Distinct tropes of this game: ===

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Maccer's addiction to masturbation is the subject of numerous gags.

** One of the "I Say, You Say" segments also includes a masturbation joke.

* [[A Friend in Need]]: Cesar leading CJ to the [[Wham! Episode|Wham Mission]] is what solidifies their friendship.

* [[Deadfoot Leadfoot]]: Almost always averted when you shoot a civilian dead while he or she is still in a car; this is par course for all ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]''-era games. However, shoot a cop chasing you in his squad car, and a glitch may occur, causing his lifeless/headless body to continue giving chase until you pull it out and jack the car.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The Cluckin' Bell worker clearly doesn't like his job.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Played for laughs on the news radio station WCTR...

'''Richard''': That's right, Leanne. It used to be a patch of desert, then it was a mob town. Now, it is the corporate headquarters of America. Back to you in the studio. }}

* [[Disc One Nuke]]: If you go to the Los Santos Airport with a tall car, you can climb on top of the fence and access some nice airplanes, letting you get your flying skill up.

** Unless you collect all the oysters during the game in wich case the girls always invite him in for a "coffee".

** Also, if you weat the Gimp suit when meeting Millie, you automatically enter her house.

* [[Donut Mess with a Cop]]: Three guesses as to where you receive missions from Pulaski and Tenpenny.

* [[Downer Beginning]]: The game starts with CJ (who left Los Santos for five years after the murder of one of his brothers) returning home to bury his murdered mother, which is grim enough. But as soon as he arrives, he's picked up by [[Dirty Cop|Officers]] [[Big Bad|Tenpenny]] and [[The Dragon|Pulaski]] who steal all his money, frame him for a cop killing that ''they'' committed, and dump him in the middle of rival gang turf. And when CJ does make it to his mother's funeral, he finds that his brother Sweet is pissed at him for leaving and that his old gang is in shambles.

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Throughout the game, you'll get in shootouts with all kinds of gangbangers, cops, "redneck survivalists", pedestrians, military, drug dealers, the Italian mob, the Russian mob, federal agents, federal agents who might be aliens, and not a single goddamn one of them can score a hit more than once per every ten bullets expended at the very most. Of course, due to the GTA games infamously wonky targeting system, neither can CJ sometimes.

* [[Inappropriate Hunger]]: Big Smoke eats the whole gang's takeout while being shot at by the Ballas. Of course, this is meant to foreshadow the fact that {{spoiler|Smoke has been with the Ballas all along}}. When called out on it, Smoke replies:

** Gameplay-wise, to get fat or even get a lot of energy for working out, you often need to eat several of the largest combo available.

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]:

** Toreno, too.

* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]]: Ryder is convinced he's a genius, but he's probably [[Ted Baxter|the stupidest person]] in the whole game.

'''Ryder''': Ha, ha, ha. But, nope. That ain't it either. It's cause I'm too intelligent for this shit. I am the real deal fool, oh, yeah. A genius. }}

* [[The Lancer]]: Technically, [[Inverted Trope|you are this to Sweet early on]]. Later, Cesar is this to you.

** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9lEr53rXaI this] one might qualify.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: In one of the very first missions, Ryder puts his cap backwards and goes to rob the local Pizza Stack. But when the cashier recognizes him due to his height and voice (and, obviously, his [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]):

'''Cashier:''' I don't know anyone so small! I feel sorry for your dad! }}

* [[Take That]]: Quite a few at ''Driv3r'' and ''True Crime: Streets of LA'', most notably a billboard in Los Santos with "True Grime: Street Cleaners". Also, at the War Memorial in San Fierro, at the top and bottom are tombstones that read "R.I.P Opposition 1997-2004". Also [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], due to ''[[Saints Row|Saints Row 2]]''.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Both Tenpenny and Pulaski undergo one late in the game, because {{spoiler|the FBI has taken an interest in their involvement with the criminal underworld. Tenpenny is the one most visibly effected by it, as he goes from being smug, superior and cocky to edgy, paranoid and prone to outbursts. And when it's revealed that fellow officer Hernandez has been ratting them out... well, Tenpenny's reaction isn't pretty.}}

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: {{spoiler|Big Smoke}} appears as a respected public figure on the news in latter parts of the game, encouraging (of all things) to keep the streets drug free while building orphanages. Lazlow, of all people, remarks on this during a radio interview...

* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: There's one point where you jump out of a moving plane, onto another moving plane, open the door and start shooting everyone in sight. Impossibility notwithstanding, who the hell would ever think of trying to do this just for a second?

** CJ himself lampshades some of these missions himself occasionally, especially during the Toreno missions, in which he would have just walked away and never looked back if it wasn't for the fact that Toreno happens to be the key to getting Sweet out of jail.