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Ever since GTA 3’s protagonist (a stoic murder proxy allegedly named Claude) melted our hearts, every one of Rockstar’s rich and varied litany of leading men has reached iconic status. But there’s one that stands out as their most brilliant, subversive best.
That would be Niko Bellic, obviously.
Rockstar’s biggest triumph, though, is that their other greatest character isn’t subversive at all. In fact, he is Mr. GTA, absolutely everything you and your mum might associate with the series embodied in one gloriously nasty psychopath.
Trevor was created in part to solve the conundrum of what media wanks in the late ’00s liked to call “Ludonarrative Dissonance”, a phenomenon in games like this where the actions of the player in the open world are at odds with the motivations of the character.
It’s something that reached its most absurd extent in GTA 4, where you had a character whose Tinder profile would read “Sad About War” waging his own endless conflict against the LCPD, pigeons, bystanders, hot dog vendors, and anyone else. Depending on who was at the controls, of course. Essentially there are two Niko Bellics,
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