Richest GTA protagonist

Who was richer and more powerful?
Tommy or CJ?

I mean, both were the crime bosses of their cities
Cj was a music producer. Tommy owned a movie studio.

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I'd say Carl, he's also friends with the Chinese mob and that spreads his influence even more

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nigga go back

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Did you play VC? Tommy owned the whole damn city. CJ was rich but didn't come close to Tony's influence and wealth.

>Tony

I meant Tommy obviously

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GTA Online protag, technically speaking.

Guy/gal owns nightclubs, private militias, air missiles, a drug running business, a smuggling operation and a bunch of other fucking shit.

GTA: O character is technically canon.

No, CJ's businesses actually generate revenue.

and what the fuck is with that order?
3, IV, VC, V, SA??? what?

CJ because he can exploit horse betting.

>Childhood is thinking the VC theme is the best
>Adulthood is realizing III has the best theme song in the series
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Both 3D and HD era releases are in order but the HD games are between the 3D ones
It's like one of those number sequences from IQ tests

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>post-Adulthood is realizing One had the best theme all along

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wasn't most of it part of the drug money laundering

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>Sweet we can finally leave the hood and all this bullshit. Let's just go man
>CJ you also smoking that shit too? Nuh uh, nigga I ain't never leaving ma momma house man. Grove Street for live.
I fucking hated Sweet so much

Either Tommy or CJ. I think its Tommy though because he basically owns the entirety of Vice City.

Michael after I did that stock market glitch to net him around $1.7 billion

CJ is "legit" in most of his business at least.

It's the classic man with aspirations vs. man with responsibilities conflict. Sure CJ made it but Grove Street went to hell because no one was left to keep the idiots who lived there from ruining it.

Easily CJ He has the most value in friends made along the way

Oh sure, leave Los Santos behind so Big Smoke can keep flooding the streets with crack, great idea.

I liked LIberty City Stories sped up version of this

Tommy Vercetti has an icon outside his mansion that spawns infinite money.

They were the idiots who ruined it the first place.
People like them is what makes the hood a horrible place.
They'd say they want to make it better, but do nothing but.

oh let me just storm a heavily fortified fortress by myself through the front door

not like it didn’t work

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I don't recall CJ filing for bankruptcy for his businesses numerous times.

So does CJ.

and yet the hood still filled with crackheads. CJ's plans worked, Sweet's didn't.

>Big Smoke, in pursuit of money, sets in motion the story of a man who manages to become much richer than him in the course of a few months and then ultimately dying by his hands
there's irony in all of this

Tommy also has a literal money printing operation.

>tfw visiting 'grove street' in gta5 and its super shitty and filled with bums and (not) ballas.

Michael had a pretty good life before the story happenend

No, they're Ballas in GTAV

Killing crack dealers is a great source of early game income. They drop like 2K, and they're usually armed, so you get a free gun too.

I've always liked GTA IV's loading screen and music a lot, I should really replay it.

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I didnt think they were, what sucks is nobody flying green colors

vercetti probably

Yes, and yet when the game is over they're just as prevalent as ever. Sweet's quest to remove yay from his hood is as doomed as Johnson's War on Poverty or Nixon's War of Drugs

Families still green though, even Lamar wears exclusively that

From just missions, it's either Claude or the GTAV guys. they gave Claude boatloads of money for anything

For sure a GOAT theme. I'd say the entire series had fantastic original music up until 5. I don't even remember the theme song in 5, and every time I revisit it, I'm reminded of how weak it was.

In terms of themes I'd rank em
IV > III > VC > SA > LCS > I > II > VCS > V

just want to thank OP for a original thread

>GTA IV has a comfy loading screen with soft-spoken yet powerful music and a cool artstyle with no text that just let's you think about all the cool stuff happening in its pictures
>GTA V has an obnoxious police siren/gun shot earrape sound when the game loading starts and has creepy realistic looking artwork mixed with daily update messages that ruin the ability to actually take in the artwork
What did Rockstar mean by this?

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pretty sure in at least three of the games you can get infinite money but the stock market in 5 alone will net you billions if you actually use it right so i'll go with michael

I wanna say Canon is Tommy, because he basically inherits all the wealth in VC, but I'm pretty sure in game is CJ because you just casually buy businesses and casinos and shit

CJ
Tommy
Michael
Trevor
Franklin
Luis
Huang
Victor
Toni
Claude
Niko
Mike
Johnny

>you just casually buy businesses and casinos and shit

You get given a share in ONE casino. The only thing you casually buy is safehouses.

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Franklin would likely be the richest of the three. He's the only one who would actually think about stocks and letting his money work for him. Michael would buy old film reels as "value", and Trevor would just blow up his trailer park or some shit

Michael has an insider giving him stock market secrets, you retard.

Michael was literally betrayed by that guy

Michael MAKES movies. Assuming he maintains his integrity, he won't cash out on the capeshit hype, but that's still a pretty neat income he got there.
Trevor runs a drug and weapons smuggling ring which seems to be pretty successful.
Franklin is young and may probably overtake them both, but I have difficulties seeing what he has going for himself (and his arc in the story didn't make much sense to me). He will definitely overtake Trevor, as he will die an early death (by one of the VI protags most definitely) and probably Michael as well, but those events are after the game.

>Tommy runs the whole Vice city
There's no debate here.

Hmm I could have sworn you can outright buy a casino on the strip but it has been over a decade since I've last played it, my bad

I thought Michael was in debt or at least running out of money by the time the story started.

CJ has the most stable income. Tommy has many businesses but they are all shady as hell. Tommy is also too prelevant in the city, sooner or later he will be gunned down.

I honestly don't see a future for Tommy if he continued like he did, the game is based on Scarface after all and it shows why it's not the best idea to live like a king if everything you own is based on drug money. CJ has better and more trustworthy friends, legal businesses and less enemies since he completely pulled out of the gangster life.

CJ becomes a silent partner in the Four Dragons Casino with Woozie in exchange for helping them out.

>Claude
Back in Prison
>Tommy
RICO'd
>CJ
Killed because Sweet keeps making him do useless gang shit
>Toni
Runs a humble italian restaurant after his momma passed away
>Vic
literally dead
>Nico
probably deported
>Johnny
literally dead
>Luis
still a regular bodyguard/dealer
>Michael
Somehow still a millionaire in witness protection
>Franklin
Hood pulls him back in, ends up dead
>Trevor
ODs on meth
Michael wins financially, Toni wins spiritually

You buy Zero's RC shop, and own a Garage in Dorehty

>Killed because Sweet keeps making him do useless gang shit
Nah, CJ didn't get back into gang life but Sweet definitely died.

you also buy car dealership beside the garage and buy the airstrip

I know rockstar is a fan of giving protags bad endings after the fact but I refuse to believe Tommy got locked up for racketeering. Guys too smart

It you really count any character probably your custom gta online character, assuming you have every piece of dl

>ORANGE MAN BAD

>Too smart
>Kept trusting Lance after Lance constantly gave him no reason to

I remember having literally billions of dollars in SA but I may have been using cheats, I was literally 12 when it came out
Jesus Christ it was 15 years ago

Doesnt Toni get killed by based Claude?

No, that's Salvatore