Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony: Difference between revisions

* [[Fight Clubbing]]: Luis can bet on or fight in underground fighting tournament pretty early in the game.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: In ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV the Lost And Damned|The Lost And Damned]]'', [[Player Character|Johnny]] bungles a diamond deal involving Gay Tony, and steals the gems off of the corpse of an associate of Tony's: a [[Dark-Skinned Blond|tanned, blond]], [[Macho Camp|muscular gay man]] who attempted to escape via limousine. {{spoiler|This pretty much describes Evan Moss.}} When you play the mission from Luis' perspective, and {{spoiler|Evan}} decides to tag along, you know what he's gonna be in for.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Previous Player Character Cameo]]: Niko Bellic and Johnny Klebitz make an cameo appearance in the opening cutscene and some of the missions.

* [[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.

** 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.

* [[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.