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* [[Armed Blag]]: An early mission, and a Portland docks side quest.
* [[Batter Up]]: The baseball bat is the only melee weapon available in this game.
* [[Big Applesauce]]: Liberty City is based off of New York City, albeit quite loosely as it resembles more of a generic American city than a clear replica of New York. It wouldn't be until ''GTA IV'' when Liberty City would be more closely modelled after its real-world counterpart.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Offscreen, but from what's said, it's really obvious.
* [[Broken Bridge]]: Played literally. The bridge to Staunton Island was blown up in the opening cutscene (thus justifying it in that case), the drawbridge mechanism on the bridge to Shoreside Vale was broken, and the tunnel connecting all three islands was still under construction.
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Donald Love.
* [[Crapsack World]]: "The worst city in America" indeed. Gangs turning hostile towards Claude, one of which is already hostile ({{spoiler|and only two gangs won't attack him on sight}}). Liberty City also houses a corrupt mayor, backstabbing mobsters and a dreary environment.
* [[Deadly Game]]: Liberty City Survivor, which is advertised on the radio in ''Grand Theft Auto III''. The ad, complemented with fan footage from ''Grand Theft Auto IV'', can be listened to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRera2ig9k here]. This would later be turned into a full-fledged multiplayer mode in the PSP version of ''Liberty City Stories.''
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: [http://www.g-unleashed.com/index.php?cat=14&pid=118 "You
* [[Dirty Cop]]: Ray Machowski. He has plenty of contacts in the Liberty City underworld, and even introduces [[Ascended Extra|series staple Phil Cassidy]].
* [[Expy]]:
** Liberty City itself standing in for New York, though quite loosely.
** Donald Love is basically a brunette [[Donald Trump]] with a fetish for corpses.
** As is tradition with the series, the cars featured in the game are [[Bland-Name Product|off-brand renditions]] of real-world vehicles.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: About a third of the way through the game, {{spoiler|Salvatore Leone sends Claude to pick up a car that he's had rigged with a bomb}} in an effort to kill him.
* [[False-Flag Operation]]: In a bid to drop real estate prices, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Donald Love]] has Claude start a gang war by assassinating [[The Yakuza]] crime lord {{spoiler|Kenji Kasen}}, [[Bodyguard Betrayal|for whom Claude had previously worked as an enforcer]] and then framing [[The Cartel]]. See [[Lost Forever]] below.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: A few of the missions are tough as hell unless done a certain way, and the game gives no hints to those methods.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Even if Claude isn't quite a hero. And apparently, he's a literal mute too.
* [[Hufflepuff House]]:
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** The smaller gangs like the Forelli family and the Southside Hoods do play a role in the game to some degree, but were otherwise there for the lore than for anything significant to the story.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: "Give Head radio a listen this weekend, it'll blow you away."
* [[Lost Forever]]: Some Portland missions need to be done before you leave. Also, {{spoiler|Kenji will get killed at a certain point}}, so you need to complete his missions before then.
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