Saints Row: The Third/Characters

Gangs

General Tropes

Multinational Team: The Syndicate is headed by a Belgian, and it's co leaders are British and an American/Hispanic. It's rank and file draw from the same ethnic groups, and has international branches.
Pragmatic Villainy: Loren's original plan was to co-opt the Saints into the fold, offering them keeping the Syndicate off their backs (and possible entree as a member of the organization) in exchange for a cut of their profit as opposed to attempting a hostile takeover, which made practical business sense. Only after the Saints go "Fuck. That." do Loren and his associates decide to play hardball.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections: Loren makes it clear he has far more connections than the Saints and is not shy in proving it.

The Luchadores - Inactive

Eddie "Killbane" Pryor

Played By: Rick D Wasserman

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He begs the Boss not to unmask him and even offers to teach the Boss the secret of his Apoca-Fists in exchange to show how desperate he is.
All There in the Manual: The games guide explains that he uses steroids to keep up with the younger wrestlers, though that he suffers roid rage because of it. This would explain alot.
Bad Boss: When Matt suggested that the DeWynters take over for Loren Killbane smacks him with a chair. He beats the living shit out of his own gang when he loses to Boss in Murderbrawl (even if you choose to let him keep his mask), snaps Kiki's neck when she and her sister try to leave, only has his position of power because he took it by force... Yeah... not the best man to work with.
Berserk Button: See below. If first meeting him, or in a very public setting, he might let you off with a simple correction, but keep doing it...
Big Bad
Blond Guys Are Evil: He was unmasked.
The Brute
Do Not Call Me "Paul": Hates being called Eddie. He accepts it once during a radio interview but Kiki could not take the hint and keeps calling him that to get under his skin, which leads to him killing her. Might also be seen as a Shout-Out.
The Fettered: Was this so long as Phillipe Loren was alive.
- The Unfettered: Once Phillipe dies and he takes over, he takes center stage as the main Syndicate villain. Oleg mentions to the Boss at one point he was Phillipe's attack dog, and it's quite obvious that Loren kept Killbane on a deliberate leash.
Genius Bruiser: After the death of Philippe, Killbane proves to be a strategist with—fittingly for a wrestler—a good sense for public opinion. His only real weakness is his temper, which makes all that fly out the window.
Greek Mythology: He likes to make a lot of allusions to it.
Hannibal Lecture: He says that the Boss should thank him and the Syndicate for helping the Saints rediscover their killer instinct after having "sold out".
Heel: Killbane was one in the ring, which evolved to outside the ring too.
Klingon Promotion: Takes control of the Syndicate via self-election after Philippe is killed. Despite the DeWynter sisters being the actual heirs to the empire .
Large Ham: Loves to make egotistical and grandiose speeches about how great he is.
Made of Iron: The Boss has to resort to Garbage Wrestling just to even the odds when they finally get a chance to actually fight him.
Montreal Screwjob: He refers to this as his plan for the Saints, where he portrays them celebrating his attack on the Hughes bridge and blames them for it.
Pet the Dog: Lets Matt leave The Syndicate with no strings attached and tells him that he can use him as a work reference.
Small Name, Big Ego: It has even been said that his grip on reality is directly proportional to his fame.
- The Boss even says that Killbane's ego is bigger than his/hers.
Tsundere: To Matt Miller. One second he treats him like a little brother, the next he's smacking him in the face with a steel chair.
Villainous Breakdown: Goes through this if he's unmasked. Or even if he isn't.
Wicked Cultured: Despite the whole wrestler/crime lord job and being rather insane, he actually comes off as rather intelligent and well-learned when not angered.
Would Kill a Girl: He nonchalantly snaps Kiki's neck after she and her sister try to leave The Syndicate.

The Deckers - Inactive

Matt Miller

Played By: Yuri Lowenthal

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: This actually ends up savng his life. By offering to leave the Deckers and helping the Boss with a vechicle or weapon discount the Boss lets him walk away unharmed.
Alliterative Name
The Cracker
Dirty Coward: Don't let him fool you, in face-to-face confrontations he's a complete weenie.
Evil Brit: Not to mention his obnoxiousness over voice chat. As summed up by The Pixel Show within seconds of his introduction trailer:

Kit Harrison: Wahey, Tron guy! Matt Miller! He laughs 'cos he's a cyber punk!

A God Am I: To a certain extent, in the Deckers trailer he says "Don't you get it? I'm God in here" when Boss confronts him in cyberspace. He also taunts the Boss after causing their helicopter to crash referring to himself as a "cybergod".
GIFT: This exchange sums things up nicely.

Matt: "Don't you get it? I'm God in here!"
Boss: "That's just fine, 'cause in the real world, you're just a bitch with a keyboard."

- Boss might even be put off by his attitude enough to comment she'll never let her kids play video games. Keep in mind that over the course of the games s\he has told numerous authority figures to go fuck themselves, trolls the other gangs and even the Saints, kidnapped a gang leader's girlfriend so she could be stuffed in the boot of her car and crushed at a monster truck show (and Boss laughs when the boyfriend makes the discovery) and possibly throw Julius' good intentions back in his face before laughing as s\he kills him. Yeah, Matt is that much of a douche.
Heel Face Turn; By SRIV, he has gone straight, and eventually joins the Saints. After being rescued by The Boss from Zinyak.
Humongous Mecha: His avatar in cyberspace is a giant draconic robot/suit of armor.
Interface Screw: When the Boss enters the Decker's user net, Matt can do things like induce lag or invert controls to make things harder for him/her.
Kick the Dog: During the mission Deckers.Die the "Debug Screen" includes the message Why Did You Let Johnny Die?
Non-Action Guy: The only time he even bothers fighting is in cyberspace where he has several advantages, while in the real world he is constantly getting kicked around by Killbane.
One-Winged Angel: His cyberform.
Reasonable Gang Leader: Is willing to negotiate with the boss and offer him deals that, unlike Maero's, are quite reasonable. So reasonable, in fact, that the boss takes him up on his second deal. (The player has the choice of agreeing to the first or not.)
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After being beaten in virtual reality, Matt manages to get the Boss to spare him by getting him a discount on either weapon or vehicle upgrades.
- Afterwards he leaves Steelport and abandons technology for good.
Teen Genius: Bizarrely, Matt Miller is only 16 according to Kinzie.
- No longer qualifies in SRIV, which is set five years later.
Teens Are Monsters
Weak but Skilled: Likely the only reason he's kept around is because of his hacking skills. This might also be why Killbane was so willing to let him leave.
Yuri Lowenthal

Morning Star - Inactive

Phillipe Loren

Played By: Jacques Hennequet

Affably Evil: He is a gentleman and appears to have been, if not liked, at least well respected by his fellow Syndicate members. He dotes on Kiki and Viola as if they were his daughters, and Viola even remembers him fondly in a conversation with Mayor Reynolds if the player character has both of them as homies. When Mayor Reynolds refers to him as French by mistake, Viola corrects him by saying that he was actually Belgian.
Badass: This guy went head to head with JOHNNY GAT, of all people, even managing to shank him with a knife at one point.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Makes sense, his entire gang is basically the Steelport mafia. Even his mooks dress nice.
- Badass Family: Viola and Kiki are his surrogate daughters, and they are badass in their own right.
Belgian Jerk: Only if you make him mad. Otherwise, he can be disarmingly polite.
Berserk Button: Hates being mistaken for French, especially when people who know his real nationality (Belgian) insist on getting it wrong.
Big Bad: Played with. He gets hyped in the trailers as the Big Bad. In the final release, he is this... for the duration of Act I. Killbane ultimately takes his place.
Corrupt Corporate Executive
Cutscene Boss: For all the build up he gets as the Big Bad in the trailers and early game he ends up simply being crushed to death by the boss at the end of act 1. He doesn't even fight the player in game before then either.
Dangerously Genre Savvy: Tells his men to kill the Saints right after they turn down his deal. When they escape he has Matt drain their funds so they won't have any money to spend in Steelport.
Eyepatch After Time Skip: Gained after recovering from Gat slamming his head into an airplane window.
Killed Off for Real: Flattened by a giant steel ornament.
Knife Nut: Takes out a large security guard with a knife in the trailer and also stabs Johnny Gat with one.
My Nationality Is Not French
Restraining Bolt: Appears to have been one for the rest of the Syndicate leaders, who do NOT get along very well without him.

Kiki and Viola DeWynter

Played By: Megan Hollingshead & Sasha Grey

Twin sisters with Master's degrees in economics. They run the Morning Star's human trafficking and prostitution rings, while fronting as art dealers.

Action Girl: While they're both business school graduates, the sisters aren't afraid to get their hands dirty.
Brainy Brunette: Both twins are this.
Co-Dragons: Loren's right hand women: his personal assistants and the heiresses to his empire.
Deadpan Snarker: Viola.
Defied Trope: Their characters were a deliberate exercise in this according to the developers. Instead of being the cliche subordinates of an older man, they are instead his quite capable right hands and legitimate successors to his empire. Comments by Viola about Loren further reveal he regarded them like daughters.
Disproportionate Retribution: The reason why their friendship with Zimos ended and they turned him into a sex slave? Zimos slept with one of them, but then forgot which one. Being mad is understandable, but dang.
Heel Face Turn: Viola defects and joins the Saints after her sister's death.
It's Personal: Viola has a grudge on Killbane after he kills Kiki. This is the main reason she joins the Saints.
Killed Off for Real: Kiki is after telling Killbane that the Morning Star was leaving the Syndicate, while calling him by his first name (Eddie). He responds by picking her up with one hand by her neck and then snapping it.
- Viola is, along with Shaundi and Burt Reynolds, in the ending where you go after Killbane instead of rescuing them.
- They both are dead by Gat out of Hell, but not for long.
Ms. Fanservice; Viola is made into one unwillingly when she has to dress up as the Bloody Canoness from Nyteblade to help the Boss kidnap Josh Birk. She is not thrilled about having to do this at all.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: While otherwise identical, Kiki appears to be the most outspoken and defiant of the two, which is what eventually led to her downfall. Viola is more cold and rational by comparison.
Sweater Girl: Both Kiki and Viola prefer to wear conservative turtlenecked sweaters and sensible skirts.
What Could Have Been: Some of the female syndicate gang member designs were rejected designs for Kiki and Viola, re-purposed for use as generic gang members.

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