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* ''[[Grand Theft Auto III/YMMV|Grand Theft Auto III]]''
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City/YMMV|Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]''
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas/YMMV|Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories/YMMV|Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]''
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories/YMMV|Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]]''
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV/YMMV|Grand Theft Auto IV]]''
** ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV:
** ''[[Grand Theft Auto:
* ''[[GTA Radio/YMMV|GTA Radio]]''
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* [[Acceptable Religious Targets]]:
** The Hare Krishna appear as pedestrians in the first game and as one of the gangs in the second one, putting the "Targets" in Acceptable Religious Targets.
** Conservative Christians in ''Vice City'', as well as in later games in the franchise.
** [[Church of Happyology|A certain real-life religious movement]] gets this in ''San Andreas''.
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Many characters' actions, personalities and motivations can be interpreted in any one of several ways.
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* [[Catharsis Factor]]: Running down pedestrians and [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowing stuff up]] can be very therapeutic.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: ''Advance''. Neither its characters nor plotline are referenced in the rest of the series, and many fans either deny its existence or do not even know it exists.
* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]]: A perennial victim of this, thanks to the likes of Jack Thompson, who during a VGXPO debate stated that the whole point of the series was to kill as many cops as possible. The all-gamer crowd quickly told him how wrong he was, and he responded, "I thought this was going to be a friendly debate." While some missions do require the player to gun down law enforcement e.g. in heists, this isn't mandatory outside of missions. And speaking of heists, ''GTA Online'' ''does'' penalise the player for committing civilian casualties at least in some way.
** And despite what you may have heard from the [[Moral Guardian|moral guardians]], there is no "rape" option in the games (nor do any of the player characters ever rape anyone), and there is no particular focus on "killing hookers" in any of the games. The in-game website for "Little Lacy Surprise Pageant", a parody of both children's underwear and the [[wikipedia:Child beauty pageant#Criticism|exploitative and creepy nature]] of child beauty pageants was [http://web.archive.org/web/20080906104921/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gizmo/article1295469.ece reported] by the British tabloid ''The Sun'', painting it in a negative light through an interview with a (former) player who was quoted as having been sickened by the site's inclusion despite the site being actually a satire of [[Paedo Hunt|law enforcement response]] to child sexual abuse than an endorsement of paedophilia.
* [[Complete Monster]]:
** In ''Liberty City Stories'', Donald Love had his mentor killed {{spoiler|and blew up Little Italy}} to regain his fortune. We're not going to get into the morality of [[You Bastard|the guy who executed his orders.]]
** Also in ''LCS'', Ned Burner has Toni commit quite a few atrocities, including the murder of three celebrities and causing tons of damage and casualties with a fire truck, [[If It Bleeds, It Leads|just so he can get good stories to cover]].
* [[Epileptic Trees]]: Many of the explanations that some fans have given in order to support the idea that ''IV'' and ''[[Chinatown Wars]]'' are set within the same canon as the previous games, rather than an [[Alternate Continuity]]. Among them is the claim that there are actually ''two'' Liberty Cities, the one from ''III'' and the one from ''IV'', explaining away the vast differences between the two depictions of the city. The fact that these cities and their inhabitants do not seem to have ever heard of each other, in spite of the fact that both are large cities located on the East Coast, and even when places like Vice City and San Andreas are frequently mentioned on radio and TV, doesn't occur to them.
** [[Word of God]] has [http://www.rockstargames.com/news/2009/09/18/741/(updated)_asked_&_answered_?_re_vice_city_red_dead_redemption_and_chinatown_wars confirmed]{{Dead link}} that ''III'' and ''IV'' are set in different worlds.
* [[Fandom Rivalry]]: With ''[[Saints Row]]''.
* [[Goddamned Bats]]: Not literally, but Taxis and Police cars apply. The former can occupy the whole road at times (especially annoying during races). While tiny scratches on Police cars can make them onto your ass immediately.
** Regular civilians also count since they have the tendency to hog the road, spawn in front of you while driving, jump into your incoming vehicle and make abrupt turns. Any one of these acts can jeopardize your current mission and they will do any of these acts randomly at any given moment.
* [["Grand Theft Auto" Effect]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. The games are very well-known for their soundtracks, particularly ''Vice City''. Also, it's tough to listen to Lazlow's radio show without thinking of his work with the series.
** Funny thing is, you can ''avert'' this trope in the PC games, which install a folder in your documents folder (where usually your saved games go), in which you can stuff as many [[
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: [http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=493148&st=0 "Realistic steak"] is this at the [http://www.gtaforums.com/ GTA Forums], as a parody of both the increasing trend towards realism taken by the series and the demand by some fans that it go even further in that direction.
* [[Older Than They Think]]: ''GTA III'' was not the first open-world game. ''Zelda'', for example, predated it by well over a decade, and there are probably some text games that are even older. Hell, it's not even the first ''3D'' open-world game
* [[Rated "M" for Money]]
* [[The Scrappy]]: Most fans aren't too fond of the GBA release, though it is popular among those who like the old-school games.
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