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{{quote|''"I'm the only man in the history of this town with the hottest gay and straight clubs at the same time, and I'm about to lose everything!"''}}
''The Ballad of Gay Tony'', released on October 29 of 2009, is the second of two expansion packs for ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' (the first being ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV:
The protagonist is Luis Fernando Lopez, a part-time hoodlum from Northwood (Liberty City's version of Inwood) who works as a body guard for "Gay Tony" Prince, one of Liberty City's top club entrepreneurs. As opposed to the slums and poverty-stricken protagonists of ''IV'' and ''[[The Lost and Damned]]'', ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' focuses on Liberty City's upper-class nightclub culture.
It also marks a return to the completely [[Refuge in Audacity|over-the-top]] missions of [[Grand Theft Auto III|the]] [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|previous]] [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|games]], with the action growing steadily more insane with each mission. It also marked the final chapter of the GTAIV story (although like ''The Lost and Damned'', it largely takes place at the same time as the main game); the last mission finally ties up what one of ''IV'''s biggest loose ends.
As with ''The Lost and Damned'', you can get it either online through Xbox Live or PSN, or at retail in the ''Episodes from Liberty City'' two-pack that includes ''TLAD''.
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* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: {{spoiler|The final mission}} begins at Funland.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Subverted. While Armando and Henrique can be idiots and wander in front of you while you're shooting during a Drug War, they know how to take cover and use weapons most of the time. The game is also not so cruel as to punish you if they both get themselves [[Death Is Cheap|killed]] during a Drug War mission.
* [[Awesome Personnel Carrier]]: After a conspicuous absence in the [[Grand Theft Auto IV|main game]] and the [[Grand Theft Auto IV:
* [[Ballad of X]]
* [[Big Applesauce]]
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* [[Expansion Pack]]
* [[Fight Clubbing]]: Luis can bet on or fight in underground fighting tournament pretty early in the game.
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: In ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV:
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Mori Kibbutz considers himself one, with his Israeli military training and Ivy League 4.0.
* [[Genre Shift]]: While ''GTA IV'' was a departure from the over-the-top action of the previous games, ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' brings some over-the-top back into the game by having you steal entire train cars, leap out of planes and helicopters and parachute onto moving flatbed trucks.
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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] - Yusuf is voiced by British-Iranian stand up comedian Omid Djalili.
* [[High Altitude Interrogation]]: One mission requires the player has to intimidate a [[Shallow Parody]] of Perez Hilton into not printing anything about Tony, anymore. Part of this involves throwing him out of a helicopter and catching him before he hits the ground, {{spoiler|effectively making him crap his pants in terror.}}
* [[Hollywood Skydiving]]: Averted for the most part. ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas's]]'' parachuting mechanic makes its long-awaited return, and thanks to the [[Ragdoll Physics|new physics engine]], behaves much more dynamically, requiring a greater sense of timing and direction when deploying the chute. They haven't averted [[Soft Water]], allowing you to just freefall into the sea without deploying, though this is carried over from the [[Grand Theft Auto IV|main game.]]
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Luis also serves as this to Gay Tony.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Yusuf complaining that his friends are tacky.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Gay Tony proudly introduces Luis as his "business partner" so much, even Luis himself has bought into it. However, the extent of Luis' supposed business acumen is limited to making decisions anyone who isn't as [[Large Ham|melodramatic]], gullible, or [[Functional Addict|high]] as Tony would. On regular days, he's either a glorified [[One-Man Army|hitman]] when attending to clients, or a glorified [[Bouncer]] when managing Maisonette 9.
* [[Internal Homage]]: [[The Eighties]] Pop station (one of its songs is Hall & Oates' "Maneater", which is also featured in one of the cutscenes) is called [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City FM]], complete with the font on the game's instruction manual being used on the station's nameplate.
* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: Gay Tony. Yes, really. Aside from the name and a couple of odd quirks and rants, of course.▼
* [[Jerkass]]: Mori Kibbutz. How to best describe his Jerkassery? Let's just say that he's largely the reason Brucie acts the way he does in the main game, and even if you thought Brucie was obnoxious, the things you see Mori do to his brother ''will'' make you feel sorry for him.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Rocco gets away scot-free at the end, despite being a racist jerk throughout the game.}} And there are no more expansion packs to find out if he gets his comuppance.
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* [[Parental Substitute]]: Tony is sort of a father figure to Luis, whose own father ran out on his family, even though Luis is the more rational of the two. In one of the later missions {{spoiler|Tony tells Luis that he loves him like a son. He's on who knows how many drugs, but it's still very sweet.}}
* [[Percussive Prevention]]: Tony has to plant a series of bombs around the city as yet another favor to Rocco but is clearly too irrational and under the influence of drugs to pull it off. Luis has to punch his lights out to prevent him leaving.
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Luis is the super ego, Armando is the id, and Henrique is the ego.
* [[Prison Rape]]: Luis is an ex-con and his friends tease him about it mercilessly, especially since he now works for Gay Tony.▼
* [[Previous Player Character Cameo]]: Niko Bellic and Johnny Klebitz make an cameo appearance in the opening cutscene and some of the missions.
▲* [[Prison Rape]]: Luis is an ex-con and his friends tease him about it mercilessly, especially since he now works for Gay Tony.
* [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]]: One string of random encounters has Luis meeting up with Margot, one of his past flings, who had become obsessed with him. When Luis rejects her two more times, she [[Spurned Into Suicide|attempts to kill herself]]. The first instance ends with a potentially fatal dose of sleeping pills [[Interrupted Suicide|being pumped out of her stomach]]. The second instance which involves jumping off a pier? {{spoiler|She gets it right this time.}}
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Very much in the vein of the older games rather than Niko and Johnny's more gritty missions.
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** Luis' ex-girlfriend Margot calls him out on that, accusing him of becoming nothing but a shell of a person. Luis seems unfazed.
** Although earlier on whenever a loan shark threatens his mother, he is actually struggling to stay [[The Stoic]] and not try to beat the crap out of the dude.
▲* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: Gay Tony. Yes, really. Aside from the name and a couple of odd quirks and rants, of course.
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: If you think Gay Tony is the protagonist because his name is in the title, think again.
** May count as [[Designated Protagonist Syndrome]]. One common complaint is that, despite Luis being the hero, he's a disappointingly flat character who does pretty much nothing apart from serve Tony, who receives much more character development.
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