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{{quote|''Don't come close. I don't want you to see my face''.|'''Yeasayer''', '''Don't Come Close''', ending song of Ending A}}.
'''''Grand Theft Auto V''''' is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by [[Rockstar Games]]. First released in 2013, it is part of the ''[[Grand Theft Auto (series)|Grand Theft Auto]]'' series. An enhanced version of the game for the [[PlayStation 4]], [[Xbox One]] was released in 2014, with the [[Microsoft Windows]] version further delayed to April 2015. Ports of the game for the [[PlayStation 5]] and [[Xbox Series X and S]]
Its story follows three criminals and their efforts to commit heists while under pressure from a government agency, and as such the gameplay allows players to cycle between the three protagonists: retired bank robber Michael de Santa, former gangbanger turned repo man Franklin Clinton, and [[Ax Crazy]] career criminal and ex-military pilot Trevor Philips, each having their own special abilities. Michael can enter [[Bullet Time]] whilst in armed combat, Franklin is able to slow down time when driving, and Trevor can fly into a blind rage and dish out extra damage whilst sustaining far less damage himself, and he can also perform a few unique melee attacks when the special meter is activated.
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* [[Bank Robbery]]: Hands down the main focus of both the single-player and ''Online'' storylines.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: As part of the series' [[Constructed World]], many fictional products from the series lore make a return, most often parodying real-world products and services like [[Apple|iFruit]], [[Facebook|Lifeinvader]] and [[Twitter|Bleeter]].
* [[Bowdlerise]]:
** It was revealed in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0CfNV5b3ZY&t=1210s live conference] that Rockstar, despite having been known for their edgy public image as purveyors of mature oriented video games, tried to consciously cut down on the use of curse words and racial slurs by the cast. Shawn Fonteno and Slink Johnson rebuffed R*'s attempts at curtailing their speech, recalling in said panel that this is the way they speak having grown up in the hood, and in no way would they grow out of saying the n-word as they weren't using it in a racist manner anyway (especially within the African-American community where the likes of "what's up, nigga?" between Black people would be seen as fairly acceptable).
** Later releases of the game would [https://www.eurogamer.net/transphobic-content-has-been-removed-from-the-gta-5-remasters tone down if not completely excise] transphobic content in the form of transgender sex workers with fairly muscular bodies, following pressure from LGBTQ+ advocacy groups who felt they were being unfairly stereotyped.
* [[Broken Bridge]]: The first numbered entry and the second game overall to avert this, with the whole map accessible to the player save for a few interior locations.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Trevor was in the Royal Canadian Air Force
* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: To a degree with Trevor as he expressed his contempt with the [[Illuminati]] and their (supposed) machinations, also alleging that the [[Private Army|Merriweather]] is "the Illuminati's private army" which motivated him to carry out attacks against them. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with Ron Jakowski, who developed an irrational sense of paranoia towards various conspiracies. Ironically enough, despite his deep-seated disdain for pervasive surveillance and his efforts to get away from "the man", Ron [[Hypocrite|has]] a [[Facebook|Lifeinvader]] profile; this is [[Truth In Television]] though as some real life conspiracy theorists do maintain social media profiles, contrary to their (twisted) beliefs, although they did come up with their own [[The Moral Substitute|substitutes]] to mainstream social platforms (i.e. the so-called "alt-tech" geared towards right-wingers) as the likes of Facebook wanted nothing to do with them in recent years.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)]]: The only people Trevor are implied to rape are men, like his cousin, and jokes are made on it. His relationships with women are shown to be consensual.
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* [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic]]: Averted. Stuttering and repetition of words does happen to several characters.
* [[Retired Outlaw]]: Michael is one at the beginning of the game. The situation quickly changes when he is forced to come out of retirement after unwittingly trashing a gangster's house.
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: Happened not once, but twice: one for the eighth-gen platforms i.e. the [[PlayStation 4]] and [[Xbox One]], and another for the [[PlayStation 5]] and [[Xbox Series]] consoles. Both re-releases have their own respective graphical updates, with better post-processing effects, higher-resolution textures, denser foliage and at least some form of ray tracing on the ninth-gen versions.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Trevor is a drug dealer, murders with little to no provocation, is a rapist, and it's heavily implied to be eating human meat.
* [[Wanted Meter]]: With a maximum level of five. The meter eventually cools down as long you stay out of the law enforcement's line-of-sight.
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