Saints Row (series)/Characters

A list of characters from the Saints Row series. Gang/organisation affiliation is a big part of the character's identities, so they're grouped by the gang or organisation they first work/worked for (if applicable).

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The Player Character

Main Tropes

• Accidental Hero: At times, albeit rare.
• Ace Pilot: The Playa is an exceptionally skilled pilot, capable of flying any aircraft they encounter, from small hover bikes to massive cargo planes.
• Animal Motifs: The Boss is represented by a shark in The Third, seen with a gun, tattoos and other imagery. Both are known for violence and never stop until they achieve their objective, most often involving killing.
• Anti-Hero: About as 'anti' as a protagonist can get.
• Ascended Fanboy: In the third game Male 1 will sometime shout "Murder time, fun time!" when he kills someone. Also, The Boss working for Burt Reynolds.
• Ax Crazy
• Badass Biker: If the player wishes.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: If the player wishes.
• Badass Normal
• Berserk Button: In the sequels, harming the Boss's subordinates is enough for them to take a break from carefree mayhem and give the perpetrator their full attention.
  • Also betrayal, you can be an undercover cop or a former rival gang member but never fuck with the Boss when it comes to loyalties or he/she will hunt you down to the ends of the earth.
• Book Dumb: Zig-zagged. At times the Boss comes across as downright stupid, but there are occasional hints that it's of the obfuscating variety and every once in a while the Boss says something genuinely insightful or smart (which almost always results in a shocked reaction from the other characters).
• Byronic Hero: Their underlings find it difficult to get to know him better, whether it be his name or life before joining the Saints.
• Character Development: Goes from Julius' lieutenant to a borderline psychopath in the second game. The range of voice options can elaborate this further. The third game has Boss come across as more level headed than Shaundi, helped further by player input on certain decisions (nuke the Syndicate's headquarters or keep it as a base, use zombie gas to create more homies or dispose of it, sacrifice Shaundi to go after Killbane or save her). Third-game Boss is also noticeably nicer than second-game boss and can even be outright heroic at times, though s/he's still completely nuts.
• Chick Magnet: The Boss tends to have flirty moments with several female characters throughout the series. They can romance anyone in IV.
• Combat Pragmatist: Has found many ways to get out of sticky situations or solve problems, particularly in the second game.
• Coup De Grace Cutscene: S/he finished most of the gang leaders in the series like this. Matt Miller in The Third bribes the Boss into allowing him to pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here instead.
• Cultured Badass: Is into literature such as Jane Austen, and judging by them calling themselves a 'puckish rogue' in IV, has read Shakespeare.
• Deadpan Snarker: Even in the first game where he barely talks.

"I'm gonna skull fuck that bitch." "Hope you don't mind hepatitis."

• Determinator: He/she is like a walking talking blender - anything between their goal goes down.
  • Also even when completely stoned he/she can still fight off enemies en masse.
• Devil in Plain Sight
• Drives Like Crazy: Of course, this depends on how you play... and it's kinda hard to follow traffic laws while you're listening to Wolfmother.
  • Regardless of how you play, it's Lampshaded by almost every character who rides shotgun with you. Characters from the first game give a familiar Continuity Nod in regards to it. And Jane waxes poetic about your vehicular carnage.
  • Here's something well hidden. Call up a homie then when they arrive dismiss them. S\he will get in their vehicle and take off. You can jump in the passenger seat and now Boss will give them shit over their driving. It's best to have a load of flashbangs to freak out your homie and any driver\passengers to encourage accidents.

"Really? Really?"

• Et Tu, Brute?: Julius tried to kill the Playa at the end of the first game, despite being their boss beforehand.
• Evil Feels Good: Tells Julius this more or less before they kill him.
  • More Like Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!.
• Even Evil Has Standards: S/he may be an amoral crime boss, but is still horrified after seeing the corpses of people experimented on by Ultor in the Ultor Exposed DLC.
  • Again in the third game. Murder, theft, human trafficking, insurance fraud, and wanton destruction are all fine. Hyper-commercialisation, on the other hand, is something the Boss starts having doubts about. This may or may not stick depending on the ending chosen.
  • Also in the third game Boss doesn't like the way a director of the movie they happen to be staring in treats the actress they play alongside and quickly begins trying to screw with him and get him to stop even though he does nothing but praise whatever Boss does. They also try to get the poor girl to stand up for herself so he won't pick on her so much.
  • In The Trouble With Clones Boss becomes kind of heroic, as they is genuinely pissed at the army attacking Pierce and Johnny Tag, even showing remorse for the Saints failing Gat. Whatever criticism you can level at Boss, they have one of the most heroic scenes yet.
  • They are also against the use of nukes and attempted genocide.
  • Intervenes to save Steelport from destruction during the ultimate battle between STAG and the Syndicate.
• Faux Affably Evil
• From Nobody to Nightmare: The first game begins with the Playa just walking down a street before being caught in a gang fight and co-opted into the Saints. They take to the lifestyle like a duck to a thing a duck would enjoy a lot.
• For the Evulz: In the second game.
• Garbage Wrestler The only way the Boss was able to fight Killbane in Murderbrawl XXXI.
• Gun Nut
• Heel Face Turn: Starts losing their sadistic streak in The Third, and is gone by IV.
• He Who Fights Monsters
• Hopeless with Tech: Downplayed. Can use basic tech such as phones, but is repeatedly shown to have trouble with anything beyond basic.
• Hypocritical Humor: Pokes fun at Kinzie for her 50s simulation outfit despite hating being picked on for his 50s outfit.
• Immigrant Patriotism: The French and British voices in IV feels strongly about the United States.
• Implacable Man: Both in and out of gameplay, assuming you do enough diversions. Blowing up The Boss just got him/her pissed off, and in the second game, the full complement of perks means that s/he can jump out of a plane, get hit by three exploding trucks on fire, and take a point-blank shotgun blast to the face without going down.
• Improbable Piloting Skills: Playa flies the STAG VTOL better than the STAG pilots, shooting down several other STAG aircraft and destroying numerous STAG vehicles and equipment, and they manage to do that only soon after hijacking their first VTOL.
  • The Barnstorming diversion in The Third requires that Playa utilize their Improbable Piloting Skills to perform difficult manoeuvres.
• It's All About Me: Is in it for personal gain in the second game and often ignores the needs and complaints of others. In IV, they want to replace the phrase "One Nation under God" to "One Nation under ME." Only changes their ways after being called out for it.
• Jerkass: On a bad day.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his Jerkass tendencies, they do care for their underlings. The gold is more apparent in IV.
• Kick the Dog: The Boss is fond of doing this, especially in the second game. Arguably the most brutal example was the way s/he cripples Matt's hand with fireworks. Matt had nothing to do with The Brotherhood other than doing their tattoos and being close friends with Maero. He gave him/her all the information s/he wanted and s/he still ruins his livelihood as both a tattoo artist and musician by doing this.
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: To any enemy.
• Large and In Charge: Is much taller than everyone in the second game bar Maero.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: When compared to the organizations they have fought.
• Literal-Minded: Tends to be like this.
• Locked Out of the Loop: They claim this when only finding out about the name of the Steelport statue during Pierce's rescue mission in IV.
• Made of Iron
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: One would image the over a dozen voice actors for the Boss are nothing like them.
• Mercy Kill: Did this to Carlos after the Brotherhood mortally wounded and disfigured him.
• No Name Given: S/he's usually just referred to as the Boss or the Playa.
  • In the third game pairing Boss with Zimos may prompt some dialogue where Boss asks Zimos what his real name is when Zimos says it's "Need to know and you don't". When Zimos asks Boss their name the Russian female boss says her name is classified.
    • Male 3 tells Zimos that his name is Winston Churchill. He doesn't buy it.
  • The last Heli Assault activity against the Deckers reveals that Kinzie knows the Boss's real name. The Boss promptly tells her to shut up when she starts to say it.
• No Party Given: It is unknown which political party (if any) they are aligned with as President.
• Not So Harmless: Maero originally believes that The Boss is just a washed-up gangbanger and therefore gives him/her a pitiful proposition. He REALLY regrets this as the gang war between them becomes increasingly brutal and vicious.
• One-Man Army: NPC allies aren't exactly competent fighters so you'll be doing most of the work.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Their real name is never revealed, so people refer to them as 'playa' or 'boss', for examples.
• Pay Evil Unto Evil: The Ronin and Brotherhood missions especially consist of increasingly bloody games of tit-for-tat between The Boss and whoever's stupid enough to try and get to him/her through the Saints' lieutenants.
• Person of Mass Destruction: By the end of SRTT, they are able to blow up a skyscraper, sink an aircraft carrier, take on a well-armed paramilitary group, bring down a flying warship and set up a city state, not to mention kill a truly ungodly number of people.
• Pet the Dog: They seems to show genuine care and concern for the Saints, especially the lieutenants. This is especially apparent with his/her reaction to having to Mercy Kill Carlos.
  • In the new "Gangstas In Space" DLC Boss is extremely nice to the actress they have to work with. They coach her throughout the DLC to stand up for herself and not take shit from the Jerkass director who insults and belittles her at every chance he gets. Soon they even become friends and she can be called as a homie upon completion of the last mission. By the end, the Boss may have rubbed off on her a bit more than they intended...
• Protagonist Without a Past: In the first game, he's just an ordinary schmuck who happens to walk right into a gang war, without any backstory. Was he a criminal beforehand, or a law-abiding citizen seduced by the criminal lifestyle? We don't find out. However, along with having way more dialogue, we get some small tidbits of info. For example, s/he mentions coming to a bordello since s/he was a teenager, and one of the female voices reveals that her father loved guns and told her that you could never have enough. Plus, the events of the first game are your protagonist's past now.
• Red Baron: The Butcher of Stilwater.
• Shipper on Deck: They ship Shaundi and Pierce. Evidenced by one of the lines Male Boss 1 can randomly say, where he says that Pierce should "stop bickering and just fuck her already".
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: When they rip Zinyak's head off.
• Silent Bob: In the first game s/he only has four spoken lines, in the sequel s/he speaks just as much as any other character. This is also Lampshaded in the second game.

Julius: "Jesus...you haven't learned a god damn thing." Boss: "Wrong! I learned that being in charge was better than being a bitch who kept his/her mouth shut and does what s/he's told!"

• • Also,

Aisha: Oh my god, it's you. Boss: Surprised, Aisha? Aisha: What, that you're here, or that you're talking? Boss: Pick one.

• Squee: S\he has this reaction big time over Burt Reynolds.
• Suddenly Voiced: Oh so much in the second game. The voice options are absolute gold.
• Talkative Loon: Believe it or not s\he talks even more in the third game.
• Team Dad: Generally since they're the boss, but particularly if someone needs guidance, such as rookie gangster Carlos in the second game or the bickering Shaundis in the fourth game.
• The Captain: After the first incarnation of the Saints.
• The Sociopath: Cares for his/her lieutenants, but makes it clear that s/he's in the gang scene for the perks and power. Has nothing but contempt for Julius' attempt to be a "killer with a conscience."

Julius: Don't you get it? The Saints didn't solve a goddamn thing. Drugs were still being pushed, innocent people were still being killed... all we did was turn into Vice Kings that wore purple... Playa: Jesus Christ you sound like a pussy... Julius: I sound like someone who's not a sociopath.

• Took a Level In Badass: In Saints Row 2.
• Took a Level In Jerkass: Also in Saints Row 2.
• Tranquil Fury: They're normally surprisingly calm when enacting revenge on an enemy, but is brutal nonetheless.
• True Companions: With the Saints, on a good day, but especially with Gat.
• The Unfettered: Can be proven as this if they kill Killbane.
• Unstoppable Rage: When they are pushed past their breaking point.
• Villain Protagonist: They're not exactly one of God's best children, being a murderer, drug trafficker, thief, and possible jaywalker.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Some civilians can cheer them on, and with the Saint's growth into a media empire, this is magnified. Averted after they become President.
• Wrestler in All of Us: They can adopt wrestling moves in the second game from the Brotherhood.
  • The third game, while doing away with four separate fighting styles, incorporates wrestling moves into the Boss's fighting style by default.
• Your Size May Vary: In the first game they're of average height; in the following games, they are about a head taller. In the second game, the only character of a comparable height is Maero, though in following games other characters are closer in height.

Gender, Race and Playing Style Selection Tropes

• Acrofatic: You can make your Boss fat (ranging from "chubby" fat to "gives The Notorious B.I.G. a run for his money" fat), and s/he'll still be able to sprint and jump without a hitch. Regarding the sprint, you can unlock infinite sprint... meaning you can run laps around the city and still look like you're in danger of having a heart attack at any minute.
  • Big Beautiful Woman / Big Handsome Man
• Ambiguously Gay/Depraved Bisexual: Female boss definitely likes girls, even if there's one voice, when stoned, asking if Pierce was interested in her.
  • The same voice also ask Johnny if a hospital is a good place to pick up guys and later remarks on phone watching two strippers perform.
• And This Is For: In the third game, Female Voice 1 will give one when planting each explosive during the final STAG Film. Makes it all the more poignant.

"One for Shaundi..." "One for Viola..." "One for my crew..." "And one just for me..."

• Author Avatar: Obviously, it is possible to create one.
• Badass Grandpa/Never Mess with Granny: You can make your Boss be an old man/woman.
• Badass Spaniard: And on that note...
• Call Back: When drunk she will laugh and laugh and laugh at the joke she made to Gat in the first game.
• Crazy Awesome: Half the lines s\he speaks. Somehow as a Badass Spaniard or Spicy Latina s\he gets all the best, Crazy Awesome lines.
• Dark Action Girl: Possible after the first game.
• Even Evil Has Standards: One voice will comment on Matt Miller and fearful of her kids turning out like him vows she'll never let them play video games.
• Evil Albino: If you're making an albino character, this is what you're getting.
• Evil Brit: Voiced by Maxwell Sheffield, no less! In Saints Row The Third there is also the option of a British voice, this time voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.
• Evil Is Sexy: If you so choose. The vast selection of tight, skimpy and damned classy clothes helps greatly.
• Fat Bastard/Fat Girl
• Hidden Depths: Depending on the voice you use s\he be may drop interesting tidbits. Collecting glass unicorns for example.
• Hot Amazon: A female boss will tower over every other woman and several guys in the game. Various male Saints will also comment on her being the toughest chick they ever met.
• Intelligible Unintelligible: In the third game, with the Zombie voice option.
• Juggalo: Many fans of Psychopathic Records were quite pleased to find face paint options in the second game. Although there are only four different styles the sheer amount of customization options allow many players to create their ideal juggalo persona.
• Knife Nut
• The Ladette: Played straight with all the female voices in Saints Row 2 and the Russian and Latina voices in The Third. Female voice 1 in TT also counts, but she does occasionally show a feminine side. This trope is the Latina voice to a T though.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Russian!Female Boss, dear god.

Russian!Female Boss: When I was a child, my father would make me fight the dogs for food. <sighs> It made me who I am today.

• Les Yay: Female characters have these moments.
• Magic Plastic Surgery: Along with Easy Sex Change
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: The "Russian" voice in Saints Row The Third skews to this. "Is exciting, yes? Like attacking a tiger with a knife!"
• Muscles Are Meaningless: The flip side of the Acrofatic option; you can be skinny as a rail and still throw people around like rag dolls and kill Brutes like it's nobody's business.
• Platonic Life Partners: With Johnny Gat, if you play a girl. They're very close friends, but there's nothing sexual going on, and Johnny is hooked up with Aisha. Can be averted in IV if you choose to romance him.
• Sassy Black Woman
• Scary Black Man
• Sensual Slavs as of Saint's Row the Third it is possible to be one of these.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: In the promos for the third and fourth games.
• Spicy Latina: In Saints Row 2 and the Third, one of the possible Playa voices is one. She unfortunately didn't make it to IV.
• Virtual Paper Doll: Thanks to the many options in clothing and body builds, you can make your own Boss rather easily. And making it resemble to another character is far from impossible. Pick up long purple hair, a tanktop, some shorts and pretend you're in Roanapur.
  • Blonde ponytail, red tank and black trousers, or jacket and jeans and you have Buffy. Crop top and cargoes, Kim Possible. With a little work you can pull off John Cena and Ric Flair (replete with their signature taunts). All part of the fun of course.
• Vocal Dissonance: You can mix and match bodies and voices for the Boss. You can have a male body with a female voice, or the other way around. And then there's the zombie voice...
• When I Was Your Age: Parodied; one of the lines demonstrating the "Male 1" voice in the third game complains about kids playing video games, saying that when he was young, he would've been playing outside... killing people in real life.
• White Gang-Bangers
• White-Haired Pretty Boy/White-Haired Pretty Girl

The 3rd Street Saints - Active

Julius in the first, second and fourth games respectively

Julius Little

Played By: Keith David

Julius is the charismatic founder and leader of the Third Street Saints in the first game. He saves the main character - who he refers to as "Playa" - from a gang shootout, and offers him a place in the Saints. Julius claims that their goal is to clean up Stilwater and wipe out the rival gangs who are raising hell and generally making life miserable, even if he does make some questionable decisions. He ultimately sells the Saints out and essentially destroys the gang after being caught by the cops, even seemingly killing "Playa" via boat explosion, and gets a job as a tour guide after Mega Corp Ultor moves in and renovates the entire Row. But Julius' past comes back to haunt him in the form of "Playa", who survived the explosion and wants answers - and revenge.

• Affably Evil
• The Chessmaster: In short, he founds the Third Street Saints to wipe out the other three gangs in the city, then betrays them before sending them all to prison or death. The plan works brilliantly, except it just leaves open a vacuum for other gangs to fill. He also failed to kill the Player like he expected.
  • It's questionable how much of this is Xanatos Speed Chess since Julius gives up the Saints only after he's arrested with what's implied to be rock solid evidence.
• Face Heel Turn
• Heel Face Turn
• Et Tu, Brute?: Julius tried to kill the Playa at the end of the first game, despite being their boss beforehand.
• Hypocrite: Makes a deal with the Colombian drug cartels for the Saints to be their sole distributors when the Vice Kings refuse to touch the stuff.
• Jive Turkey
• Killed Off for Real
• Nice Hat
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: For all his well intentions in the first game, his manipulations end up resulting in a power vacuum that is quickly filled with new gangs and the Protagonist a Complete Monster who ends up killing Julius in revenge. Job Well done sir.
• Necessarily Evil
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Is it just me, or does Julius look exactly like Samuel L. Jackson?
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Julius originally wanted the gang colour to be green. During the development of the first game, the developers originally planned for the Saints to have green as their colour. But due to the release of a Grand Theft Auto San Andreas trailer which featured a gang in green and not wanting comparisons to be made, the devs changed it to purple.
• Scary Black Man
• The Captain: In the first incarnation of the Saints.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Whether he was justified or not depends greatly on the audience's perspective.
  • Deconstructed when you think about it. Julius' good intentions kill literally hundreds of people more than regular gang violence.

Clockwise from top left: Gat in the first, second, third, Gat out of Hell and fourth games

Johnny Gat

Played By: Daniel Dae Kim

• Accidental Hero: Johnny goes to Hell with Kinzie to save the Boss, but ends up stopping Satan from invading Heaven.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Aisha did.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "387 counts of murder, and one count of attempted murder".
  • Though with the statute of limitations it should be lower.
• Ax Crazy
• Cool Shades
• Cluster F-Bomb: While the game isn't short on swearing, Gat manages to find new and creative ways to insert profanity into almost every sentence.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Determinator
• Everything's Deader with Zombies: Unlike Lin and Carlos, whom you need to call Eye For An Eye to unlock, you unlock Zombie Gat after completing the story line.
• Heroic Sociopath: His response to any problem is to kick down a door and start shooting. He's so crazy that even other gangsters think he's a complete nutcase.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Daniel Dae Kim, aka Jin-Soo Kwon.
• Killed Off for Real: He gets killed in the second mission of the third game by Philippe Loren, much to the ire of the fans. Averted when it was revealed in IV that Zinyak abducted him instead since he was viewed by Zinyak as the only person that could stop him from conquering Earth.
• Literal-Minded: When Jezebel said she wanted to punch her father in the face, Gat took it literally.
• Made of Iron: Not quite to the degree of the Boss, but it still deserves a mention.
• Murder Is the Best Solution
• Never Found the Body/He's Just Hiding: Gat disappears during the second mission of the third game, and turns up about 70% of the way through the fourth game, having been abducted by Zinyak.ble With Clones DLC has something to do with the return of Gat.
  • The Genkibowl VII DLC does hint that he may still be alive.
• Number Two: In the second incarnation of the Saints.
• Sanity Slippage: Street gossip reveals that he becomes even more violently unhinged after Aisha's death.
• Smoking Is Cool: The Gatmobile (which was made in his likeness) comes with a built in cigarette flamethrower. This is somewhat odd as Gat is never actually seen smoking in any of the games while many of the other Saints are. Maybe he picked up the habit between 2 and 3 to cope with the loss of his wife Aisha.
• Sympathetic Murderer: Especially after Aisha is killed.
• Sunglasses At Night
• Testosterone Poisoning
• Tranquil Fury: When beating up Shogo Akuji at Aisha's funeral and then burying him alive.
• True Companions: With the Boss, right from the start.
• The Worf Effect: He's a Badass Heroic Sociopath that can blast his way though an army of mooks but he seems to get hurt a lot to show the gang he's against means business. In the first game he's kneecapped by Anthony Green and held captive, in the second game he's run through with a sword by Jyunichi, and in the third he is stabbed by Philippe Loren and apparently killed, or so Loren claims. He was actually abducted by Zinyak, just to show how much he feared Gat.

Troy in the first and second games

Troy Bradshaw

Played By: Michael Rappaport

• Becoming the Mask
• Call Back: While he doesn't actually appear in the third game a police officer in the first mission will mention him. Apparently, he is still chief of police, but doesn't have the pull to get the Saints off for their really extreme crimes. Or protect them from the Syndicate.

"Troy can't bail you out of this one!"

• Da Chief: Let's just say he was promoted big time in the last five years.
• Deal with the Devil: He genuinely didn't want to betray the Saints despite being an undercover cop. In the second game he sees working for Ultor and doing things that help the other gangs as this, while all this time he still helps the Saints in one way or another.
• Dirty Cop: Sets out to protect the Saints in some form even as police chief.
• Friendly Rival: To the Boss in Saints Row 2.
• Must Make Amends: Attempts this with Julius after his arrest, attempts to get Julius to make amends by getting Gat and Playa to step down. His solution is to kill Playa and the corrupt Mayor Hughs. Many of the things he does for the Saints can also be seen as this for betraying them.
• Number Two: In the first incarnation of the Saints.
• Pet the Dog: He's the reason Boss is still alive after the bombing, keeping him\her on life support all that time.
• Smoking Is Cool: Especially during the first game, where he lights his cigarette on the burning body of a tough rival gang member.
• The Mole: He was a cop all along.
• White Gang-Bangers

Dex in the first and second games, Money Shot and Gat out of Hell

Dexter "Dex" Jackson

Played By: Jeffrey Allen Qaiyum

• Black Best Friend
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He sells everything from nuclear weapons to toxic waste. He also betrayed the Third Street Saints when he could have warned them about Troy being an undercover police officer. Later, he tries to kill the Boss and Julius Little by telling them both to meet him at the Saint's Row Church, then sending the Masako there.
• Cultured Warrior
• Deadpan Snarker
• Et Tu, Brute?
• Even Evil Has Standards: Gives Troy a "What the hell dude?" look after he lights a cigarette on the burning body of a gang member they had just killed.
• Face Heel Turn
• Grammar Nazi: Gets annoyed at everyone for saying "The Los Carnales", especially after he starts saying it himself.
• Mr. Fixit
• Nice Hat
• Put on a Bus: Apparently the devs don't want to bring him back to not confuse new players.
• Smug Snake
• Teen Genius: Or young adult at least. He doesn't seemed to be very old at all in the first game.
• Wicked Cultured

Lin

Played By: Tia Carrere

• Action Girl
• Bastard Girlfriend: Did you just insult her? Punch to the the face. Did you just act nice towards her? She'll be rude and treat you like dirt. Even Playa takes a little while to earn any respect from her.
• Continuity Nod: Zombie Lin is referenced in Saints Row 2 and in The Third. Kinzie also has a photo of Lin in her Hacker Cave, though Pierce takes it before the boss could see it.
• Everything's Deader with Zombies
• Joke Character: She can be unlocked as a zombified homie.
• Killed Off for Real
• Mata Hari
• Ship Tease: Between their interactions in the first game, and how quickly Pierce hides the picture of her in the third, there is a rising amount of suspicion that the Boss has/had some feelings for Lin. Because he didn't know Lin, and his noticeably freaked out expression on seeing her picture, it is implied that unless the Boss him/herself brings it up, you don't talk about Lin.
• One of the Boys
• Reverse Mole
• Smoking Is Cool: Just like many of the male Saints.
• Wrench Wench: She gets really annoyed at the Rollers when they think someone like Donnie worked on her car, when in reality she tricked it out entirely by herself.

Shaundi

Played By: Eliza Dushku & Danielle Nicolet

One of the Saints' lieutenants, Shaundi starts as a stoner/college dropout/hippie type who Really Gets Around and is almost always under the influence of some kind of drug. However, she's still a very efficient member of the Saints, and the countless people she knows provide the Saints with tons of leads regarding the rival gangs. But in The Third, she's become a lot more serious and focused - especially after Johnny Gat is killed.

• Action Girl
  • Faux Action Girl: Her getting kidnapped by Veteran Child causes the Protagonist to accuse her of being this.
  • Dark Action Girl: Much more bloodthirsty in the third game. Though she still gets kidnapped (and more than anyone else, for that matter).
• Blood Knight: After Johnny's death, nothing less than the murder of every member of the Syndicate will placate her. If she and Angel are in your party they might have a conversation about how uptight she is, why she is, and how she will do whatever it takes to screw over the Syndicate, before Angel professes his love to her for those qualities.
• Character Development: Picking up on clues from the games, it seems after a bad trip to Steelport she becomes a stoner, before joining the Saints. In the third game she ditches drugs, dating and Took a Level In Badass, then becomes enraged over Johnny's death.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Sort of. She's pretty on the ball, but a little forgetful and spacy due to being constantly stoned.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Gat in the third game, minus the happy attitude. She clearly cares for him, and when he dies she really wants to kill Phillipe Loren, just the same as Gat wants Jynuichi dead for killing his wife. When Killbane attacks Gat's funeral Shaundi really wants to kill him, just like Gat had Shogo Buried Alive when he attacked Aisha's funeral. They also miss their shot at taking out the Big Bad (a security guard sneaks up on Gat before he can take out Vogal, and before Shaundi can kill Killbane Matt Miller makes the chopper she and Boss are on crash.)
• Distressed Damsel: In one level two levels. The boss actively questions her Action Girl credentials, concluding in the final missions of the Samedi arc that the only character she could take on is Veteran Child, and only because of his recent death.
  • At the ending of The Third, she is kidnapped along with Viola and Burt Reynolds and tied up with them next to a bomb. The Boss must choose between saving them, or going after Killbane and letting them die.
  • And before that, she got picked up by STAG and the Boss has to sneak onboard the Daedalus to save her.
• Eliza Dushku: In Saints Row 2
• Erudite Stoner
• Even Evil Has Standards: Shaundi is right into fighting gangs. Random assaults on people in the street will bore her.

"Yeah, this isn't working for me."

• Flanderization: In both games. On the one hand she was a constant stoner with a ridiculous amount of boyfriends. On the other hand she becomes a stone cold killer, second only to the Boss, and is constantly pissed off.
• Antiheroic Sociopath: She prefers exterminating the Syndicate to the Boss's plan of taking them over, and doesn't mind expressing this view. As far as anyone else is concerned, she won't want to kill them unless they piss her off, like Birk.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: You get to roll in a gang with Faith. It's just as awesome as it sounds.
• Hotter and Sexier: She was by no means unattractive in the second game, but by The Third, her look has really...changed.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Forget taking over the Syndicate, Shaundi wants them all dead because they killed Gat and attacked his funeral. Forget that Josh Birk can be used to lure STAG into a trap, or to make a deal, just kill him.
• New Age Retro Hippie
• Noodle Incident: Various comments hint at something bad happening when she visited Steelport before. It's hinted that Zimos used her as a ho.
• Not as You Know Them: Between her drastic change in appearance and unusually focused demeanor, you'd never know that the Shaundi in Saints Row the Third was a laid back stoner chick in the second game.
• Number Two: Treated as this in the third game.
• One of the Boys
• Really Gets Around: Actually, this makes her very useful. All the Saints usually have to do is wait for one of the over six hundred guys she used to fuck to give her a call.
  • She ditches this in the third game, only mentioning a single ex in Steelport that she keeps in contact with who is willing to let the Saints crash at his apartment. The guy she's most focused on is Gat and that's only because of his death. She might get angry at her past being brought up, and her reaction to a actor hitting on her is to plead to Boss to let her kill him.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the third game. She tears into the Boss when s\he loses control of the helicopter they're sniping from, causing her to miss killing Killbane (who Shaundi really wants dead after his attack when the Saints were arranging Gat's funeral). She also begins a What the Hell, Hero? when the Saints start turning into the Syndicate, rather that Kill'Em All.
• Sanity Slippage: Like Gat after Aisha's death, she breaks after Gat's death, becoming more angry and violent.
• Self-Serving Memory: After Johnny's death, she is enraged about both Pierce and Boss for quickly getting over it, telling her it's better to move on than to spend all time mourning, acting as if it's the first time Boss lost a close friend. Apparently she either has forgotten Carlos or ignores his death and how Boss handled it. Which was the same way.
  • Maybe she wanted Boss to go right for stuffing members of the Syndicate in the boot of a car and having it crushed, rather than mess around trying the different activities.
• Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Mid way through the game she will call you and discuss your actions, depending on which voice you use. She may be optimistic, even crediting Matt and Kinzie on their work (female voice 1). With another voice she'll call you out on keeping Viola around and turning into the Syndicate when she wants to just kill'em. Other options are for Boss to reassure her that they are doing what they do for Gat.
• Took a Level In Badass: Say what you want, she did survive the last encounter with The General.
  • Her Action Girl credentials in The Third gets taken up quite a bit since she turns into a female version of Gat after his death.

Shaundi: *after taking Boss' gun and shooting two Syndicate guards in the head* Put in your tampons and let's do this!

• Took a Level In Jerkass: Viola might try being nice to her. Shaundi deadly tells her not to say a word to her.
  • She knows Russian Boss is obsessed with Pierce so she'll troll her by claiming she and Pierce are going to get married and have a bunch of kids. Boss is not amused by this.
• White Gang-Bangers

Carlos Mendoza

Played By: Joe Camareno

The first person the Boss meets after waking up from his/her coma, Carlos proceeds to help him/her escape from prison and return to Stilwater. This effectively acts as his foot in the door into the Saints (which his brother was a member of before they disbanded), and the Boss recruits him as a lieutenant. He's young and inexperienced, but genuinely tries, and the Boss appears to see him as a bit of a younger brother figure.

• Death by Disfigurement: Sadly, he was so badly hurt from what the Brotherhood did to him the boss had to put him out of his misery.
• Everything's Deader with Zombies
• Joke Character: He can be unlocked as a zombified homie, but for whatever reason he doesn't start with a gun. Also a Secret Character in this capacity.
• Mauve Shirt: Aside from the beginning and the very first few Brotherhood missions, he gets killed off fairly quickly and doesn't appear in any other gang's missions.
• Nice Hat
• Sacrificial Lamb: Especially if one does the Brotherhood missions first.
• The Heart
• Undying Loyalty: Remains loyal to the Saints years after they have disbanded and wears a purple hat to symbolize this. He even gets himself shanked just to get a chance to speak with the boss. (Who at this point was just an (admittedly very high ranking) former member of the gang and not its official leader yet.}
• Young Gun

Pierce Washington

Played By: Arif S Kinchen

One of the Saints' lieutenants, Pierce starts off as an efficient if rather whiny tactician who keeps having ideas taken from him and is rarely, if ever, given any respect. By the time of The Third however, while he's still a bit of a Butt Monkey, he gets way more respect and is more of a slickster type. In his free time, he enjoys playing chess and listening - and occasionally singing - to classical music and soft R&B.

• Ambiguously Gay
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Drops his old gangsta style clothes in favor of a more professional look in the third game.
• Black Best Friend: Shown more in The Third, with him and the Boss singing "What I Got" together after reminiscing about the recently deceased Johnny Gat.
• Butt Monkey: His love of classical music is mocked, and his plans are either ignored or credited to Shaundi.
  • Though it should be noted he is still one of the best fighters of the Saints and Boss values his support in missions. He/she also remarks how he is far above Shaundi in that regard.
  • He's still one in The Third, but less of one. It even gets lampshaded in the intro:

JOHNNY GAT and SHAUNDI are pop-culture icons. And Pierce... Well, who gives a fuck about Pierce?

• • Relatively AVERTED if you choose to kill Killbane. After the Boss declares Steelport a sovereign city-state, s/he offers Pierce the office of Mayor.
• Nice Hat
• Sharp-Dressed Man: In the third game.
• Smart People Play Chess: Is seen playing a few games with Oleg over the course of the game and is strongly implied to be winning each time, though he never does get a chance to actually finish his game...
• Ted Baxter: Plays himself off like the brains of the crew, but when he's actually on the spot he's just whiny and way too obsessed with making a good impression.
• The Strategist: Although he never gets any credit for it.

Oleg Kirrlov

Played By: Mark Allen Stuart

A rather massive ex-KGB super soldier who was captured by the Syndicate and cloned in the hopes of developing a private army. He gets freed by the Saints during the raid on the Syn Building at the end of Act I.

• Awesome but Impractical: As a homie, Oleg is an incredibly tough, deceptively fast and devastatingly powerful melee fighter, inflicting at least as much damage with his fists alone as the other homies can inflict with their guns. However, despite being virtually unstoppable, his sheer size means he cannot ride on most vehicles alongside the Boss. Also, because he is exclusively a melee fighter, he is a common target of friendly fire. If shot or hit by an explosion caused by the Boss, he'll get upset and leave the party; not only that, but he'll attack the Boss, and failure to beat a quick time event to dodge his punch means instant death to the Boss, regardless of how many health points s/he has left.
• The Big Guy: Very big. When you call him as a homie, a random mook Saint drives up in a Criminal pick-up truck with Oleg riding in the bed of it.
  • Apparently his size has caused him to hate the mini car Emu, which he tells Boss to destroy at any given opportunity as one of the challenges on Saints Book. He admits it might be irrational.
• Geeky Turn On: He admits he's got a crush on Kinzie, since he considers her an intellectual equal - he manages to finish a few of her sentences and she talks a lot in Techno Babble.
• Genius Bruiser: Don't let his appearance fool you... he is well-spoken, intellectual, and an excellent tactician.
  • He and Pierce are seen playing chess against each other.
  • If he's around as a homie he even offers to teach the boss Latin, saying it's the only language intellectuals should be speaking in.
• Husky Russkie: AND HOW.
• Naked on Arrival: When you first meet him.
• Sharp-Dressed Man
• The Spock: He'll often defend the most logical or pragmatic solutions to some of the crossroads in the game. For example, he suggests that the Saints keep Loren's building to themselves instead of destroying it and that they also keep the chemical that creates zombies so that Saints can manufacture their own zombies instead of getting rid of it all like Mayor Reynolds asked. Pierce gets to play The McCoy to Oleg's The Spock when Oleg encourages the Boss to go after Killbane, arguing that all of their efforts up to that point would have been meaningless if Killbane escaped, while Pierce believes that the Boss should let Killbane escape and go rescue Shaundi instead.
• Smart People Play Chess
• Wrestler in All of Us: Like fellow Russian giant Zangief, Oleg can do the Pile Driver to finish off enemy Brutes.

Kinzie Kensington

Played By: Natalie Lander

A former FBI intelligence agent who's employment was terminated after the Deckers framed her for an unknown crime. She becomes the Saints' new tech expert after they rescue her from a Deckers-owned barge.

• Accidental Hero: Johnny goes to Hell with Kinzie to save the Boss, but ends up stopping Satan from invading Heaven.
• Adorkable
• Alliterative Name
• Brains and Bondage: In the cut scene before rescuing Zimos from a BDSM club called Safeword she says "Mine's 'tea cup'." In the cut scene before "Learning Computer" she's shown to own a Gimp mask.
• Cassandra Truth: Reveals what the Deckers fabricated to get her terminated in an off-handed manner.

Kinzie: "Sure, let down your guard and suddenly, they make it look like you're selling secrets to Mossad and moonlighting as a dominatrix."

• Covert Pervert: As well as being a regular at a BDSM club she has a bust wearing a leather gimp mask, her own Penetrator dildo bat (which Pierce whacks The Boss with!), dresses Boss as a sex doll and mentions using electronics to get herself off. Kenzie being Kenzie, the toilet and sex doll avatars in the http://deckers.die mission were probably for shits and giggles.
• Deus Ex Machina: Discussed and defied.

Kinzie I'm not a Deus ex machina you know!

• Dueling Hackers: With Matt Miller during some of the Deckers missions.
• Genius Slob: If you have her and Viola as homies at the same time it's revealed that Kinzie doesn't know how to wash her hair.
• Hacker Cave: Her warehouse crib is set up as this.
• Hikikomori: In her first post rescue mission she states outright that she hates people. When she gets shot at she might say "This is what I get for going outside!" and one Heli Assault mission ends with her declaring that she's going to shut herself away for a week. Her phone call when all the Deckers territory has been taken over implies that she's slowly becoming more sociable and has started going outside more.

Kinzie: I could have been at home on my computer, but noooo... someone suggested that I "grow as a person"...

• Hollywood Nerd: Type II. For a computer geek, she's quite the looker.
• Lampshade Hanging: Will call out Zimos' inconsistent use of his microphone staff when the two are called as Homies together.
• Meganekko
• Playful Hacker
• Properly Paranoid: Constantly works without sleep during the Deckers missions to keep them from getting the upper hand. Justified since they've already cost her her job in the FBI and she wants payback.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In one level of heli assault she has to stop for petrol, when Boss asks how she forgot she says she was busy figuring out how to DESTROY AN ENTIRE GANG!
• She Knows Too Much: Actually knows the Boss's name. All the Boss can do is tell her to keep it to herself.
• Room Full of Crazy: Kinzie's room in her lair is full of newspaper clippings of sittings of Zombie Lin to aliens. There is also a lot of Ultor related stuff.
• Techno Babble: Kinzie has a tendency to spout out scientific/technological terms that the Boss has no idea what it means. Even when asked to talk in Layman's Terms, she'll lapse back into this in no time flat.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In the debut trailer, she's seen typing away on a keyboard while the Boss and Johnny get into a firefight. Her only response is to shake her head and continue typing.
  • Fridge Brilliance: If the club is being attacked by the Syndicate, Kinzie's likely too busy stopping a Digital Attack from the Deckers to care about the firefight.

Angel De La Muerte

Played By: Hulk Hogan

A former luchadore who was once part of the Pale Horsemen tag-team with Killbane. The two formed the Luchadores gang, but Killbane's ego took a hit due to Angel's better popularity with their subordinates. As a result, Killbane de-masked him and Angel left in shame.

• Actor Allusion: If you have Angel as a homie, he'll sometimes yell, "We're taking over!"
• Hulk Hogan: His voice actor.
• In the Hood: Likely used to hide his face after he was publicly de-masked in the ring and went into hiding.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Despite being obviously Hispanic, Hogan makes no attempt to put any accent in his voice.
  • Double points for irony, Hulk Hogan IS Hispanic.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: He stays in a dingy casino to remind him of what Killbane took from him. He rushes after Killbane in the ending regardless of your actions. And he is affectionate to Shaundi because she had become a Blood Knight.
• Training From Hell: Sets the Boss through various dangerous "training sessions" to prepare him/her for fighting Killbane, including making him/her drive around the town with a tiger in the backseat to "confront fear" as he puts it.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Obviously.

Zimos

Played By: Alex Desert

An old school pimp whose heavy smoking habit lead to a tracheotomy, although this hasn't stopped him from doing so. He was once friends with the DeWynter sisters, but after a falling-out they trapped him in a Morning Star run BDSM club.

• Auto-Tune: His mechanical larynx has this installed in it.
• Dirty Old Man: He's Steelport's oldest pimp. The sign outside his crib says that he's been in business since 1975. The game allegedly takes place in the mid-2010s.
• Pimp Duds: Including a gold walking cane shaped like the top half of a mic stand, with the microphone grip functioning as his mechanical larynx.
• Naked on Arrival: Naked enough. You first encounter him as a prisoner in a BDSM room called "the Pony Show" with him wearing a gimp harness and bridle.
• Sharp-Dressed Man
• Sunglasses At Night
• Women Scorned: The reason he found himself in a ponyshow is because he slept with one of the DeWynter sisters... then forgot which one.

The Vice Kings - Inactive

King in the first and fourth (normal and Super Homie) games

Benjamin King

Played By: Michael Clarke Duncan

• Badass Boast: Later in the VK story arc, he reminds Warren who he is and how he built the gang.
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Big Bad
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Even Evil Has Standards: He wanted no part of Stilwater's drug trade.
• Genius Bruiser
• Heel Face Turn
• Not So Different: He says this of Julius and himself, but there's a subtle difference why he's successful and Julius ultimately won't be. Turns out, he's right.
• Put on a Bus
• Retired Badass/Retired Monster: At the end of the first game.
• Scary Black Man: Voiced by and partially modeled on Michael Clark Duncan, this was inevitable.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Initially.

Warren Williams

Played By: Ogie Banks

• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Bald of Evil
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• The Dragon
• Dragon-in-Chief: Exerts significant control with Kingdom Come Records, the VK's record label.
• Get Back Here Boss
• Killed Off for Real
• Klingon Promotion: When he ousts King out of the gang.
• The Starscream

Anthony Green

Played By: Terrence C Carson

• Bald of Evil
• Dumb Muscle
• Killed Off for Real
• Scary Black Man
• The Brute

Tanya in the first and fourth games

Tanya Winters

Played By: Mila Kunis

• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
• Cutscene Boss
• Dark Action Girl
• Dragon-in-Chief: Exerts significant control with her prostitution ring, and later becomes the leader after ousting King and killing Warren.
• Evil Genius
• From Nobody to Nightmare: The manual for the first game mentions that she was only a small time ho before joining the Vice Kings. Afterwards she began sleeping her way up the chain of command.
• Killed Off for Real
• Klingon Promotion: When she kills Warren shortly after he takes over.
• Manipulative Bitch
  • Smug Snake: Even after successfully backstabbing her way to the top of the Vice Kings, she is still easily dispatched by The Playa, King, and Gat when they finally confront her.
• Really Gets Around
• The Starscream
• Stripperiffic
• White Gang-Bangers

Los Carnales - Inactive

Hector Lopez

Played By: Joaquim de Almeida

• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Beard of Evil
• Big Bad
• Disc One Final Boss: If you can even call him that.
• In-Series Nickname: Kimo
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Killed Off for Real
• Mismatched Eyes: One brown, one clear
• Sibling Team: With Angelo

Angelo Lopez

Played By: Freddy Rodriguez

• Ax Crazy: Storms into a nightclub and opens fire at Playa, Dex and Manuel to avenge his brother's death.
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Big Bad
• Domestic Abuser: Hit his girlfriend Luz when he lost his temper.
• Hot-Blooded
• Killed Off for Real
• In-Series Nickname: Lobo
• Sibling Team: Hector
• Testosterone Poisoning
• The Dragon
• Villainous Breakdown
• You Are in Command Now: After Hector is killed

Victor Rodriguez

Played by: Philip Anthony-Rodriguez

• Badass in a Nice Suit
• In-Series Nickname: Tanque
• Killed Off for Real
• Made of Iron
• The Brute
• Stone Wall

Luz Avalos

Played By: Andrea Zafra

• All Women Love Shoes
• Anti-Villain
• Demoted to Extra: Saints Row 2
• Dark Chick
• Gold Digger
• Heel Face Turn
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• Running Gag: Her obsession with shoes (outdated shoes at that).

Westside Rollerz - Inactive

In General

• White Gang-Bangers

Joseph Price

Played By: Gregory Price

• Bald of Evil
• "Get Back Here!" Boss
• Killed Off for Real
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Looks like Vin Diesel from The Fast and the Furious
• Pet the Dog: He had a soft spot for Donnie and he really did think of him as a friend.
• Sunglasses At Night: Unless you only go after the Rollerz during the day, which wouldn't be very practical.
• Villainous Breakdown
• White Gang-Bangers
• The Dragon

William Sharp

Played By: David Carradine

• Badass in a Nice Suit: While he mostly lets Joseph handle the physical aspects of running the gang he isn't afraid to get his own hands dirty. In fact, he has the honor of being the only rival gang member in the game to take out one of the Saints top players. (Just ask poor Lin.)
• Big Bad
• Deadpan Snarker: Almost every sentence.
• Evil Genius
• Evil Uncle
• Hypercompetent Sidekick
• Killed Off for Real
• The Man Behind the Man
• Smug Snake

Donnie Wong (also a member of the The Brotherhood in Saints Row 2)

Played By: Andrew Kishino

• Anti-Villain: He's just a mechanic, but since he's also a weakling, he's a good target whenever the Boss needs to grill someone for info.
• Butt Monkey
• Dye Hard
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
• Grease Monkey
• Mr. Fixit
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The reason why he survived both Saints Row 1 and 2.

The Brotherhood - Inactive

In General

• White Gang-Bangers

Maero

Played By: Michael Dorn

• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Badass Boast: Actually gets the boss to back down from a fight with one of these.

Boss: "Where's your crew? *Puts a gun to Maero's temple* "I could kill you right now." Maero: "No." *Stands up to reveal his full hight* "You couldn't."

• BFG
• Even Evil Has Standards: Gets upset with Jessica when she makes an offensive remark about Carlos, although its possible he just didn't like her insulting the guys he just invited over to negotiate with.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Michael Dorn.
• Huge Guy
• Killed Off for Real
• Large and In Charge
• Scars Are Forever: After "Waste Not, Want Not" he has a large burn scar covering half of his face from Boss and Carlos putting radioactive waste in Matt's tattoo ink.
• Tattooed Crook
• The Brute
• White Gang-Bangers

Matt

Played By: Anthony Pulcini

• Anti-Villain
• Killed Off for Real
• Nepotism: Only in the gang because his best friend, Maero gave him a job as a tattoo artist. He even tells the Boss that Maero deliberately keeps him out of the loop so that he won't get mixed up in the violence.
• Non-Action Guy: He's just a scrimshaw. The only time he tries to fight ends up getting him killed with a brick to the head.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Holding off the Boss so Maero and Donnie can escape. Not only is he killed with a brick by the Boss, but the Boss eventually kills Maero anyway.
• Tattooed Crook

Jessica Parish

Played By: Jaime Pressly

• Affably Evil: Up to a point.
• Asshole Victim: Big time.
• Call Back: Her death "by gangbangers" gets referenced to by STAG leader Cyrus Temple in SRTT as part of the reason that the unit was started in the first place. Although he blatantly leaves out the part where her and Maero were in a gang themselves, downgrading Maero to simply being a tough guy who drives monster trucks and her as an innocent caught in the crossfire.
• Dark Chick
• Killed Off for Real}
• Tiny Girl: Compared to Maero
• Not So Harmless: What she does to Carlos.
• One of the Boys: Or so she tries.
• Rich Bitch: It's implied she was one of these.
• Tattooed Crook
• White Gang-Bangers

The Ronin - Inactive

In General

• Badass Biker: The case for many members.
• Katanas Are Just Better: The gang's choice of melee weapon.

Shogo Akuji

Played By: Yuri Lowenthal

• Asian Rudeness: Treats Jyunichi like crap and generally talks in a brash manner.
• Badass Biker: The Ronin mooks probably see him as one. In reality he's just a spoiled punk who screws up fighting the Saints so bad his father has to fly in from Japan just to try and clean up his mess.
• Buried Alive
• Disc One Final Boss
• Get Back Here Boss: When the Ronin start losing the fight with Boss and Gat he tries to escape on his motorcycle. He doesn't get very far.
• Inadequate Inheritor
• Jerkass: He's a petty, stupid, vindictive punk who doesn't have any idea how to effectively use the resources at his command.
• Katanas Are Just Better
• Non-Action Guy: Spends the whole game giving orders and living off the Ronin's success. When he gets captured by Boss and Gat and tries to fight them he gets his ass kicked and then buried alive.
• Samurai
• Royal Brat: Spends his days living off the success of his father's gang, and when Jyunichi shows him up in front of his old man, he has the Boss kill him.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Tries to pull one of these when his hit on Boss and Gat at Aisha's funeral goes south. The Boss manages to catch him before he can get away.
• Too Dumb to Live: After sabotaging his own gang, he tries to personally carry out a hit against Gat and the Boss at Aisha's funeral. This makes Gat very unhappy.
  • It gets better love. Aisha wasn't even IN the coffin. It was a setup, Because Johnny knew Shogo was to stunned to just let Aisha have a proper funeral.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: One of the citizens will tell the Boss that Kazuo was more pissed that Jyunichi was killed (because of Shogo no less) than his son being given a Texas funeral.

Kazuo Akuji

Played By: Steve Blum

• Abusive Father: Frequently tells Shogo right to his face that he fills him with shame.
• Badass Boast: Gives one while impaled on a katana just seconds before dying in a boat explosion.

Akuji: "When I escape, the WORLD WILL NOT BE BIG ENOUGH FOR YOU TO HIDE IN!"

• Badass Grandpa: It may not seem apparent at first, but he is probably the most dangerous of all the rival gang leaders. For example, he beats the Boss in a sword duel (something Jyunichi couldn't even do while accompanied by a team of mooks) and forces the boss to use his/her ace in the hole. If Boss hadn't brought his/her gun with him/her, he/she would have ended up the one impaled on a burning boat. Also, it should be noted that this is the first time the Boss is bested by an enemy in direct combat (Even Maero and the General go down without posing a real threat to the Boss's life and they had a ton of their gang members backing them up!) and forced to rely on Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? to defeat his/her foe.
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• The Dreaded
• Hoist by His Own Petard
• Katanas Are Just Better
• Killed Off for Real
• The Man Behind the Man
• Samurai
• Yakuza

Jyunichi

Played By: Brian Tee

• Anti-Villain
• Bald of Evil
• Dual-Wielding
• Even Evil Has Standards
• Honor Before Reason: He team-kills a Ronin mook by throwing one of his swords at them, for daring to try shooting Gat during their impromptu duel.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick
• Katanas Are Just Better: And he has two of them.
• Killed Off for Real
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: With Gat. And Boss. What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?
• Like a Son to Me: Kazuo holds him in much higher regard than Shogo.
• Noble Top Enforcer
• Samurai
• The Dragon
• Undying Loyalty: Even when Shogo makes an ass out of himself.

The Sons of Samedi - Inactive

The General

Played By: Greg Eagles

• Badass Baritone
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Bald of Evil
• Disproportionate Retribution: If you steal from him, you'll lose a hand, you fail him, you'll lose an ear, you really mess up and you'll get burned alive.
• Evil Sounds Deep
• Faux Affably Evil
• Evil Smoking: Enjoys a good cigar.
• General Badass: While a Non-Action Guy, his name is The General.
• Killed Off for Real
• Non-Action Guy: Despite being the head of one of the most violent and malicious gangs ever to invade Stilwater, all he seems to do is ride around in his limo all day giving orders to his underlings. In fact, the player never actually fights him directly and his boss battle simply consists of chasing him down while his gang attacks you.
• Scary Black Man
• Wicked Cultured
• You Have Failed Me: And for that you'll lose an ear, hand, or be burned alive.

Mr. Sunshine

Played By: Phil LaMarr

• The Aggressive Drug Dealer: To the point that he shoots a junkie just because he said he might buy from the Saints.
• Ax Crazy: Probably the creepiest bastard in the series.
• Ear Ache: The general is NOT pleased with his repeated failure.
• Hollywood Voodoo
• Killed Off for Real
• Knife Nut: Machetes, specifically.
  • Machete Mayhem: Its his Weapon of Choice.
• Made of Iron
• Manipulative Bastard
• Off with His Head: To make sure that he stays dead this time...
• Rasputinian Death: Gets up three times after the Boss has filled his body with bullets, until the Boss decapitates him.
• Religion Is Magic: His voodoo gives him telekinesis.
• Scary Black Man: Really scary.
• The Dragon
• Undying Loyalty: To the General.

DJ Veteran Child

Played By: Neil Patrick Harris

• Anti-Villain: He's just a drug addict that got in too deep.
• Badass Boast: "I'm the triple-platinum Veteran Child."
• Cool Shades
• Dirty Coward
• Killed Off for Real
• Minion with an F In Evil
• Neil Patrick Harris
• New Age Retro Hippie
• Nice Hat
• Smug Snake: He's in way over his head with both the Samedi and the Saints, and it shows.
• The Stoner
• Trash Talk: So much trash talk.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one when he realizes that The Boss survived his trap, and that they are coming to kill him.
• White Gang-Bangers

Mark Gabby

• C-List Fodder
• Killed Off for Real
• Satellite Character
• We Hardly Knew Ye

The Luchadores - Active

In General

• Masked Luchador
• Wrestler in All of Us

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 a lot.
• 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: After Loren's death.
• Blond Guys Are Evil: He was unmasked.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• The Brute
• 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.
• 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.
• Villainous Breakdown: Goes through this if he's unmasked. Or even if he isn't.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Is a famous professional wrestler, while secretly leading the Luchadores, and later, the Syndicate.

The Deckers - Active

In General

• Tron Lines

Matt Miller

Played By: Yuri Lowenthal

• 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".
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: This actually ends up saving his life. By offering to leave the Deckers and helping the Boss with a vehicle 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.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Is horrified when Killbane snaps Kiki's neck.
• 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!

• 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: After leaving the Syndicate, he joints MI6 and the Saints
• 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 'http://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, until he starts working with Asha at MI6.
• Teens Are Monsters
• Teen Genius: Bizarrely, Matt Miller is only 16 according to Kinzie.
• 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.

Morning Star - Active

In General

• Badass Longcoat: Their cold snipers wear longcoats
• Bald of Evil: Their cold snipers
• Cold Sniper: Their specialists
• Death From Above: They are the only gang to employ air support
• Stripperiffic: The female gang members.

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 in a Nice Suit: Makes sense, his entire gang is basically the Steelport mafia. Even his mooks dress nice.
• 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

Kiki and Viola DeWynter

Played By: Megan Hollingshead & Sasha Grey

Twin sisters with Master's degrees in economics. They run the Morningstar'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.
• 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.
• High 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.
• 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.
• What Could Have Been: An early concept portrayed them as Japanese twins named Natsuko and Yukako (nicknamed Suki and Yuki) who ran an all-female gang to counter the original all-male Morning Star concept. The two gangs were merged to streamline the story, but the twins were changed from Asian to Caucasian to avoid the whole "badass Asian chicks that are subservient to an older man" stereotype.
  • It was originally planed that both sisters would join the Saints

Ultor Corporation - Active

Dane Vogel

Played By: Jay Mohr

• Big Bad: Turns out to be the main antagonist of the second game.
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• The Chessmaster
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Dirty Coward
• Evil Plan: Strikes a deal with the winning gang, get credit for cleaning up Stilwater. The Boss nuked that dream nicely.
• Heel Face Turn: After being the main antagonist of the second game, he helps Gat and Kinzie in Gat out of Hell.
• Killed Mid-Sentence
• Killed Off for Real
• Kill the Poor: His ultimate plan.
• Let's You and Him Fight: To all the gangs in Saints Row 2
• Manipulative Bastard
• Smug Snake: Extremely so.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Maintains a high reputation in Saints Row 2, but behind it is a man who wants to displace the poor and wipe out the Saints.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist

Tera Patrick

Played By: Tera Patrick

• Action Girl
• Hollywood Nerd
• Hot Scientist
• Nerds Are Sexy
• Revenge: Against Ultor
• Special Guest
• The Danza
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Helps the Saints after she discovers that Ultor is experimenting on humans.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Eric Gryphon

Played By: Clancy Brown

• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Enemy Mine: Him and the protagonist against Dex.
• You Are in Command Now: Takes Vogel's job after he is killed by the Boss.

Other characters

Alderman Richard Hughes

Played By: Clancy Brown

• Bald of Evil
• The Chessmaster
• Clancy Brown
• Killed Off for Real
• Manipulative Bastard
• Mayor Evil: For a day or so anyway.
• Scare Campaign: By using the Saints to do his dirty work.
• Sleazy Politician
• Xanatos Gambit

Aisha

Played By: Sy Smith

• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She was Johnny Gat's girlfriend.
• Anyone Can Die
• Faking the Dead: The first game
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Housewife: The second game.
• Idol Singer: The first game until she faked her death.
• Killed Off for Real: The second game.
• Off With Her Head: How Jyunichi kills her in Bleeding Out.

Jane Valderama

Played By: Lauri Hendler

"Tonight's top story: Award-winning reporter kicks some ass!" Jane initially hires the Saints to create sensational news for her to report on. If the player mugs fifty people, she'll volunteer to be an 'embedded reporter' in the gang war,and become available as a homie.

• Action Girl
• Fish Out of Water
• Going for the Big Scoop - Instead of carrying the Distress Ball, she's Becoming the Mask; thinking and acting more like the Saints she's reporting on.

Causing mayhem is better than reporting on it!

• Spell My Name with an "S": The developers have been inconsistent with spelling of her surname, even within the same game. In the second game, it's spelled "Valderama" in the homies listing and "Valderamma" in the subtitles. In the third game, it's spelled "Valderamma" in the assassination request and "Valderrama" in the news broadcast shown in one of the endings.

Wong Shen Tai

• Arch Enemy: Kazuo Akuji. He also despises Shogo because he caused the death of his beloved dog, Sadie.
• Ascended Extra: Was in both games, but played a major role against the Ronin in Saints Row 2
• Badass Grandpa: He was able to hold his own against Kazuo long enough for the Boss to arrive.
• Completely Unnecessary Translator: He has a translator follow him around, but he doesn't need him as he can understand and speak English (albeit with a heavy accent) and even shoots his translator in the leg when he mistranslates one of his words.
• Gratuitous English: Speaks mostly Mandarin Chinese, while having an interpreter translate.
• Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: Before their fight, Kazuo boasts that Wong should be thankful that his death will be merciful compared to what he has planned for the Saints. Wong's responce?

Wong: "You talk too much."

• Revolvers Are Just Better
• The Triads and the Tongs

Manuel Orejuela

Played By: Carlos Ferra

• Bald of Evil: He is a drug dealer after all.
• Dirty Old Man: Making the moves on Luz Avalos.
• Expy: Of Ricardo Diaz
• Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist
• The Cartel
• The Ghost: In Saints Row 2

Chief Monroe

The corrupt Chief of the Stilwater Police Department, and is on the Vice Kings' payroll. In the epilogue, uses Playa to run errands, but is assassinated by the Saints during Marshall Winslow's funeral.

• Bigger Bad: He pulls many strings regarding the gang wars in the first game. He is on the VK's payroll, and sends Troy to the Saints as an undercover cop. After the three rival gangs are wiped out, he gets Playa to assassinate mayoral candidate Marshall Winslow in return for releasing Julius, but actually wants more favours. He is taken out at Winslow's funeral after the Saints become tired of running errands for him.
• Retirony: His commemorative plaque indicates that he was planning to retire before he was killed.

Joshua "Josh" Birk

Played By: Andrew Bowen

An actor set to star as a member of The Saints in an upcoming movie and the star of Nyte Blayde. To get the real experience of being a Saint, he tags along on a bank heist with The Boss, Johnny Gat and Shaundi (who he has a massive crush on).

• Abhorrent Admirer: His crush on Shaundi is emphatically not reciprocated. If you call them as homies together his attempts at flirting are met with threats of violence.
• Disproportionate Retribution: When Shaundi meets up with him after the bank heist she wants to kill him. Not because he got them caught however, because he's hitting on her.

Shaundi: Boss you have to get me out of here! He's proposed to me six times! Can I kill him? Please god tell me I can kill him.

• Large Ham: In his Nyte Blayde persona. Not that he isn't one already...
• Lethal Joke Character: As a homie, he will be equipped with a stun gun or, as Nyteblayde, a weak pistol. However, much like the other homies, he can pick up weapons left on the ground by dead enemies, meaning that he can soon enough be equipped with an SMG, a shotgun or maybe even a rocket launcher. His car of choice, The Temptress, is also one of the fastest in the game.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Willing to stay with the Saints after they kidnapped him just so that he could be with Shaundi, after which he'll be a recruitable homie (both as his regular self and as Nyte Blayde).
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Has an obsession with Shaundi and tries to use his acting as a tragic vampire-hunting vampire to woo her. Sadly for him she's basically turned into Gat and just wants to kill him, even pleading with the Boss to do so.
• Meaningful Name: His last name is a different spelling of the word "berk", which means "idiot". Rhyming slang makes it "berkley hunt", or c***. He lives up to the name.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He bails in the opening mission after accidentally setting off an alarm.

Shaundi: Josh! Are you trying to get us all jail time?! Josh: Oh...I don't wanna be some dude's bitch!

• Tag-Along Actor: The reason why he's with the Saints in the beginning.

Professor Genki

Played By: Yuri Lowenthal

The Host of Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax, the most popular TV show in Steelport.

• Ax Crazy: Professor Genki can be found in the city as a surprisingly powerful NPC that goes around killing random people.
  • The Genkibowl VII DLC pretty much confirm this.
• Cool Mask
  • Malevolent Masked Man
  • Cheshire Cat Grin
• Crazy Awesome: Just play his game show ONCE and this becomes extremely obvious.
• Dark Messiah: The live action Webisode seem to suggest this and so does the Genkibowl VII DLC.
• Deadly Game: Combination of the other participants trying to kill you and the course having numerous DeathTraps. It's basically Everything Trying to Kill You in a parody of Japanese gameshows.
• Disproportionate Retribution: According to his publicist in Genkibowl VII, if you look at him in the eyes, you'll wake up in a prison camp in North Korea.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Shooting pandas is considered unethical and gets you a penalty.
• Game Show Host: In the same vein as Takeshi's Castle, but with lethal obstacles.
• Kill It with Fire: His personal car comes with multible built-in flamethrowers.
• Made of Iron
• Mad Scientist: Definitely plays the part, and if he did invent the Octopus Gun and Manapult then he really is one.
• Mascot: He is the unofficial mascot of Saints Row The Third. The player can have homies dressed up like him as well.
• Metal Slime: Occasionally appears wandering the world as a mascot and is borderline Immune to Bullets.
• Weaksauce Weakness: For all his awesomeness, a satchel charge placed on him will cause him to run around with arms flailing about like any other NPC. Running him over with a vehicle and leaving it on top also works.

Monica Hughes

The wife and widow of Richard Hughes. She is Mayor of Stilwater in Saints Row 2 and a U.S. Senator in Saints Row The Third. She is the one who spearheads the STAG Initiative.

• Ascended Extra: Played a very minor role in the 2nd game, but became one of the major antagonists of the 3rd.
• Enemy Mine: In the second game, she hires the player to spray human feces all over the place in her grudge against Ultor. In the third game, she works against the Saints.
• Slave to PR: As a politician, she tries to keep public opinion of herself positive.
  • She also believes this is the way ("hearts and minds") to win the war against gangs and uses Nyte Blayde to aid STAG's public image. Cyrus disagrees with her.

Kia: Nyte Blayde's the face of STAG? Why don't you just put someone in a fucking deer suit? Monica: Hearts and minds will win the war, my dear. Cyrus: Shock and awe wins wars, Senator. Authorize the Daedalus and this will all be over.

• • Crosses over with Pragmatic Villainy in that if you take the route of disarming the bombs, she points out to Cyrus that his forces declared martial law and destroyed half the city, while the Saints foiled a terrorist plot to blow up a monument. She may not like the Saints, but she knows when a battle isn't worth fighting.
• Sleazy Politician: Cheerleaders can be heard saying "It's okay, we won't lose, we'll just cheat like Mayor Hughes!"
• The Unfought: She is a behind-the-scenes antagonist to the Saints.

Commander Cyrus Temple

Played By: Tim Thomerson

The commander of STAG brought in to deal with the gang war in Steelport.

• Badass Grandpa: In his own words during his boss fight:

"I've been a soldier longer then you've been alive!"

• Cassandra Truth: When fighting him he simply cannot believe the Boss' (true) claim that Kia was behind the terrorist attack.
• Colonel Kilgore: He believes "shock and awe" will win the war against gangs.

Kia: Nyte Blayde's the face of STAG? Why don't you just put someone in a fucking deer suit? Monica: Hearts and minds will win the war, my dear. Cyrus: Shock and awe wins wars, Senator. Authorize the Daedalus and this will all be over.

• Hero Antagonist: He is aiming to defeat a street gang with a reputation for murder, drug dealing, and all sorts of other illegal activities, after all.
• Hypocrite: When he uses Jessica's death as justification for his extreme tactics, he conveniently forgets to mention that Jessica herself was an unrepentant member of the Brotherhood (and was in fact The Dragon to Maero!) who casually orchestrated the horrifically brutal mutilation and subsequent death of Carlos.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In the "Save Shaundi" ending, he's forced to call off his raid of Steelport by the mayor and shoves off, but not before warning the Boss that they haven't seen the last of him.
• Straw Man Has a Point: Temple may be an absolute hard ass, but he relates the story of what happened to Jessica in the second game. As well as speaking out to gamers who were horrified at the sociopathy of that scene. Jane Valdarama (who can be a psychotically obsessed homie in the second game) is visibly shaken by what she's told.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Goes from having STAG as a presence to enforcing martial law, and if Kia is allowed to go terrorist he tries to blow up Steelport.

Kia

Cyrus' second in command. She takes on most of the missions for STAG.

• Action Girl: Is capable of fending off the Boss and kidnaps Shaundi twice.
• Boat Lights: She has a messed up left eye, qualifying this trope.
• Call Back: You save Shaundi from her much the same way as you killed Veteran Child.
• The Dragon
• Face Heel Turn: Near the end she stages a terrorist attack to blame the Saints.
• False-Flag Operation: Kidnapping Shaundi, Viola and Mayor Reynolds so their bodies would be found in a bombing she pins on the Saints, which leads to STAG destroying Steelport and killing everyone in it.
• Final Boss: In the 'Save Shaundi' ending.
  • Anticlimax Boss: On normal a fully upgraded Ultimax shotgun at close range is a One-Hit Kill.
• Not So Heroic Antagonist: We can accept Cyrus trying to eliminate the gangs, and some of her actions are under his orders, instructions or with his authority. Staging a terrorist attack to legitimize levelling Steelport however is more or less a Moral Event Horizon.
• Hot Amazon
• Not So Stoic: When the Boss meets her disguised as Cyrus, she mentions a love for Aisha and how she joined STAG to go after those responsible for her death, leading the Boss to note their reasons for joining were Not So Different
  • Using another voice for Boss she will reveal she and Cyrus were together, and suggests rekindling the relationship. The Boss of course let' slip that Cyrus likes men, probably to mess with her, but since female Boss can be interpreted as being bi and thus liking men as well as women this would in fact be the case.
  • Yet another voice will have Boss needle Kia about her feelings about Pierce, seeing as Boss is obsessed over him. Kia gets rather flustered over their insistent questioning over her feelings for Pierce.
• Punny Name: KIA, as in Killed in Action.
• War Is Glorious: Mentions this to Cyrus after martial law is imposed.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Fart bombs. Yes, fart bombs, used the same way as stun grenades.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Setting up a terrorist attack to blame the Saints and give STAG reason to destroy Steelport, and perfectly willing to have the mayor killed in the bombing. Though she dies with them if the bombs goes off.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Blames the Boss for the deaths of Aisha, Carlos, Gat and Lin.

Mayor Burt Reynolds

Played By: Burt Reynolds

"Burt Fucking Reynolds!?"

The renowned actor who also happens to be the mayor of Steelport.

• Adam Westing
• Dirty Old Man: Seen making out with a hooker in his introduction.
  • Subverted with Kinzie. Apparently she was with him, but he couldn't live up to her expectations.
• Memetic Badass: In-universe example. Apparently has outsmarted Paramilitary groups before and is feared even by Loren. The Boss all but bows down in reverence upon realizing who he is.
• Noodle Incident: Have Oleg and Burt as Homies at the same time and they'll mentioned having fought each other in Moscow.
• Porn Stache: Goes without saying.
• Ultimate Authority Mayor: As Viola notes, you don't fuck with the mayor.

Laura

A loving wife, mother, and drug dealer whom Playa helps out in the first game, after which she becomes a homie. She returns in the sequel to help the Saints against the Sons Of Somedi.

• Action Mom: You can even call her up as a homie in the first game. She brings a SHOTGUN with her.
• Anti-Villain: Aside from the whole drug thing she's one of the most moral people in the city. When Boss breaks her out of jail she even leaves a nice note.
• Ascended Extra: In the first game she's not much beyond a supporting character, but in the sequal she plays a larger role in helping bring down one of the rival gangs.
• Happily Married: To her husband, Tobias.
• Rich Bitch: Has a bit of this in the first game.

"I'm afraid to go into the city alone... because, well... I'm not POOR..."

Tobias

Played By: Brandon Keener

Like his wife Laura he deals drugs in the first game and helps the Saints take out a rival gang in the sequel. He also drives their getaway helicopter in the last mission of the game.

• Ascended Extra: Just an angry drug dealer in the first game, but vital to the Saints in the second.
• The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Though he chills out a lot by Saints Row 2.
• Berserk Button: You don't ever steal from him, and you certainly never skim off the top. Billy learned this the hard way.
• Happily Married: To his wife, Laura.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Never seen with a shirt on in either game.

Jenny Jaros, a/k/a Princess Kwilanna

Boss's unfortunate co-star in the "Gangstas In Space" DLC who plays his love interest in the movie they are filming.

• Absolute Cleavage: Not just her, but her entire race as well!
• Action Girl: Holds her own in all of the fights she and Boss engage in. (It may be just a movie, but the actors are using lethal weapons.)
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Her Pre-Mortem One-Liner to Andy is a list of things she hates relating to his attitude, but the last thing she says is "and I hate your stupid scarf!"
• Beware the Nice Ones: In the first third of the DLC she is nothing but polite and friendly even when she gets treated like crap. Then, in act 2 she kills a bunch of girls who were set to replace her and in act 3 she kills the director who did nothing but insult her from the very start.
• The Dog Bites Back: After an entire movie of abuse from the asshole director she runs him down with a freaking space ship!
• Distressed Damsel: During the first mission only. Once you free her she becomes a valuable partner.
• Everything's Better with Princesses: Her character is a princess who is... fighting her own race because... they are all under mind control...? Or something? The script for the movie sucks.
• Purple-Skinned Space Babe: Not really, but she plays one in the movie.
• Hot Space Amazon: She proves to be even more bloodthirsty and ruthless if provoked than even the Boss expected. Naturally, many fans still find her extremely sexy, including perhaps Boss himself/herself.
• Morality Pet: The Boss is generally quite supportive of her and often encourages her to stand up for herself and not take Zhen's bullshit.
• Ray Gun: Both her and the Space Amazons (The enemies for the DLC, which are supposed to be the same alien race as she is.) use this as their weapon of choice.

Andy Zhen

The Jerkass director for the Gangstas in Space movie.

• Asshole Victim: From the moment he first appears, you're waiting for his comeuppance.
• Bad Boss: He has no qualm with killing his actors and crew off to make the movie look more realistic.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Jerkass
• Killed Off for Real: This prick's death was more satisfying than many of the actual gang leaders!
• Prima Donna Director
• Too Dumb to Live: Whoo boy... its one thing to treat one actor better than another, but this guy doesn't get that praising the Boss, and then immediately turning around and hurling abuse at Jenny right in front of the Boss, isn't a good idea. Even when she starts making death threats at him and trying to run his ass down with a giant spaceship, he's more offended that she's gone off-script.
• Yes-Man: To the Boss. His mistake is that the Boss is aware there's a line between cooperating and straight-up ass-kissing.

Jimmy Torbitson

An amateur Mad Scientist whose experiments with recovered Saints DNA go horribly wrong in the DLC pack The Trouble With Clones, requiring Pierce and the Boss to intervene.

• Extraverted Nerd: Socially inept, undoubtedly, but confident enough in his work that he actually tries to clone the late Johnny Gat, of all people, and then has the guts to go directly to the Boss and spill everything he knows after it goes wrong.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Just look at what he did with a can of Saints Flow... god only knows what he could do if he had access to some high-end lab equipment...
• Hollywood Nerd: Type 1, complete with spittle-spewing lisp and Nerd Glasses.
• Teen Genius

Johnny Tag

A lumbering brute who was cloned from the DNA of Johnny Gat. He sets off on a massive rampage across the city, forcing Boss and Pierce to track him down with his creator Jimmy Torbitson.

• • Came Back Wrong: This thing is NOT Johnny Gat, that's for damn sure.
• Cloning Blues: Shares a few of the original Johnny's interests and looks a little bit like him, but is otherwise a completely different individual.
• Made of Iron: Being turned into a brute only made Johnny tougher, and he was already extremely tough anyway!
• Sdrawkcab Name: Well, last name at least.

Zin Empire

A race of aliens that invades and takes over the Earth in Saints Row IV. Not much is known about them aside from their vast array of advanced technology, including advanced virtual reality technology which they use to trap the Saints.

• Alien Blood: Averted; they have red blood.
• Alien Invasion: The main story is kicked off by the Zin invading Earth and kidnapping of the President (the Boss).
• Bizarre Alien Biology: In his autobiography, Zinyak mentions that Zin learn to read in the womb and are covered in hair during infancy.
• The Greys: They largely fit the stereotype, save for their spikes.
• Outside Context Villain: Even more so than STAG and the zombies in The Third.
• Planet of Steves: All named Zin individuals have names that start with "Zin-". Same for all their cities and states.
• Proud Warrior Race: They have universal military service, an expansionist foreign policy, and a tradition of forcing children to fight their siblings in duels to the death.
• Punny Name: Saints fighting Zin. Zin sounds a lot like "sin".
• Recruiting the Criminal: The wardens are stated by Zinyak to be former criminals against the Zin empire.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Used both in and out of the simulation. If an object is red and/or black, about 90% of the time, it belongs to the Zin.
• Spikes of Villainy: Their whole race has these naturally, being aliens and all.

Zinyak

Played By: JB Blanc

Emperor of the Zin empire and commander of its vast army. He sets his sights upon Earth and intends to add it to his ranks.

• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: He takes an interest in and studies a lot of human cultures.
• Aliens of London: He is the former president of the Zin Empire's English Language Appreciation Society. He also has the accent to boot.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Invades earth, kidnaps humanity, blows up Earth and fucks up Biz Markie.
• Ascended Extra: It is revealed in the Enter the Dominatrix DLC that he was originally going to be a minor character in the DLC of the same name for The Third, but his role got expanded when Volition scrapped the DLC and decided to do this game instead.
• Badass Cape: A large, red one.
• Bad Boss: He used Zinjai as a test subject for the simulation that he built rather than testing it on an enemy, and can sometimes be heard threatening his own men.
• Big Bad: Of the fourth game.
• Chewing the Scenery: He admits to doing this in Enter the Dominatrix.
• Collector of the Strange: He abducts historically significant Earth residents and preserves them as Human Popsicles.
• Cultured Badass: He's the ruler of a galactic empire, strong enough to knock out the Boss, and casually quotes Beowulf and Shakespeare. He is fascinated with Earth culture, in particular classical literature and music.
• Deadpan Snarker: Zinyak enjoys employing sarcastic humour in his conversations with his enemies, just as the Boss does. This is usually in response to the Boss being dumb (or playing dumb just to piss him off).
• Defiant to the End: Even when the Boss is ripping his head off his body, Zinyak swears that his people will avenge him. However, his words are proved idle boasts, because after the Boss kills him, the Zin submit to them instead.
• Dirty Coward: He spends the middle part of his fight with the Saints behind a forcefield while he sends Zin and explosive CIDs after the Boss.
• Disproportionate Retribution: On 102.4 Klassic FM, he tells his subjects that anyone who refers to Toccata and Fugue in D minor as "The Dracula Song" will be executed.
• Egopolis: Every sign in Steelport that had a face on it is replaced with Zinyak in the simulation, and Planet Saints stores are replaces by Planet Zin. There are also Zin propaganda signs all over the simulation, with some of them flaunting Zinyak's supposed greatness. Moreover, Zinyak places statues of himself around the simulation that the Boss can destroy as a collectible, and the Magarac Island statue is replaced by one of Zinyak.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The Text Adventure collectibles that reveal his origin show that he was very fond of his mother. She's the reason why he likes art.
• Even Evil Has Standards: During his text adventure, he finds whoever selected the "kill your parents" option barbaric. If the option to "Play selections from the Zin Orchestra at high volume" is chosen, he admits that no one, not even his enemies, deserves to hear songs from them (since Zinyak mentions they're famous for making horrible songs).
• Evil Brit: He speaks with a posh British accent.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • The loyalty missions show how big of an asshole Zinyak can be, from ruining Matt's carefully constructed Nyte Blade fan fiction simulation to singing Biz Markie in an opera voice so wretchedly that even Pierce is astounded.
  • After Zach and Bobby, the hosts of "Mind Over Murder" broke down and stoped stroking his ego, Zinyak had the wardens physically and sexually assault them.
  • In his text adventure autobiography, he details how he conquered one civilization and accepted a bet from their leader to spare him and his people on the outcome if the leader beat Zinyak in an arm wrestling match. When Zinyak loses (due to not taking into account the leader's cephalopodic anatomy and the species' differing idea of tables), he still casually shoots him in the eye and orders the slaughter of the rest. He keeps that leader's tongue as a good luck charm.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Zinyak speaks in a deep, resonant voice which establishes him as a dangerous enemy.
• Expy: Of Killface from Frisky Dingo. They look and act alike, and both speak with a British accent. However, unlike Killface, Zinyak actually succeeds in destroying Earth. He may also be a parody of notable villains such as Thanos and Emperor Palpatine.
• Fatal Flaw: His arrogance and overconfidence. Zinyak believes he is above everyone else simply because he is a leader of a galactic empire, and even sees his subordinates as inferior beings. He also severely underestimates the Boss and the Saints because he thought mentally torturing them with simulations of their greatest nightmares and blowing up the Earth would be enough to demoralize them. This hubris comes back to bite him when the Saints dismantle his massive empire through sheer determination despite being vastly outnumbered. Even when he is defeated, Zinyak still attempts to bravado them by claiming the Zin will avenge his death, but the Zin bows down to the Boss as soon as they take his throne, rubbing salt in the wound even further.
• Faux Affably Evil: He's polite towards anyone he's interacting with, but the atrocities he carries out such as blowing up Earth and killing everyone on it, not to mention other planets he's terrorised, make it clear that he's the worst kind of monster. Just look on his Twitter account.
• Final Boss: Arguably the toughest one of the series.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Zinyak's autobiographical text adventure reveals that he started out working at a pastry shop. He also reveals he wanted to be a museum curator at one point. He enlisted in the military, and once he started participating in battles, his desire to command and conquer grew, which led to his rise to army commander and eventually, Zin emperor.
• Galactic Conqueror: He expanded the Zin empire with his military campaign of taking over many worlds.
• Genius Bruiser: He's at least 1.5 times taller than the human characters, and has considerable brute force, but is also very well-versed in Earth literature.
• Hannibal Lecture: During Miller-Space, Zinyak tells the Boss that regardless of the fact that Zinyak conquered and destroyed Earth, it's still their fault. After all, he did warn them what would happen. He goes on to claim that Earth was already a Crapsack World with the Boss running it, and all they ever caused was pain and misery.
• Hero-Killer: By blowing up earth, he single-handedly thins out the Saints (and the human race) to just 9 members.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: A quick-time event in The Saints Wing, the first fight between the Boss and Zinyak. The Boss actually doesn't do too badly against him at first and if it wasn't for Zinyak's powers, would've killed him at their first meeting.
• Hypocrite: He repeatedly calls the Boss a sociopath, but is responsible for billions of lives lost over the course of his time conquering/destroying planets, and showing no remorse. In his text-adventure-style autobiography, he extols on how his own sociopathic tendencies are to be lauded. Moreover, while the Boss values their underlings very highly, Zinyak treats his underlings, including his closest and most loyal underling, as though they are disposable.
• Karmic Death: The Boss threatens to rip his head off when they first meet. In the final battle, this happens.
• Klingon Promotion: He killed the last Zin emperor to gain the throne. He himself was victim of this to the Boss.
• Klingons Love Shakespeare: Fascinated by Earth literature, theatre and classical music. He actually is a big fan of Shakespeare's works, in addition to Jane Austen, the game's narrator who was kept by Zinyak as a Human Popsicle.
• Knight of Cerberus: Affability aside, Zinyak is one of the most threatening opponents that the Saints have ever faced, going so far as destroying Earth. Some of the first three game's bosses were fearsome to an extent, but they pale in comparison to an all-conquering alien warlord.
• Large and In Charge: Zinyak stands at least 1.5 times as tall as his minions, who are all human-sized.
• Large Ham: In his text adventure, he admits he doesn't talk meekly. This shows throughout the game.
• Laughably Evil: Zinyak would make for a far more threatening and serious villains if his antics and quirks weren't so hilarious, contributing much to the game's humour.
• Leitmotif: He has a booming, industrial-esque theme that plays when he's shown on-screen. It is remixed for the final fight.
• Mind over Matter: He makes his entrance on Earth by showcasing Not Quite Flight, and tosses the Boss around like a ragdoll during their first confrontation in the second mission.
• Neck Lift: Does this often to subdue enemies. It helps that he's 1.5-2 times the height of humans and other Zin alike.
• Neck Snap: He admits to killing a schoolyard bully in his youth this way. This is how he is killed by the Boss.
• Not Quite Flight: How he makes his entrance on Earth in the second mission.
• Not So Above It All: Joins Pierce and the Boss in singing Biz Markie's Just A Friend during Pierce's loyalty mission, much to their horror.
• Off with His Head: At the end off the final fight, the Boss pulls off his head, along with a small section of his spine.
• Pride: In excess. He still keeps acting egotistical even as the Boss is ripping his head off.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Takes great pride in the many worlds he has conquered, and fully subscribes to the Zin's Proud Warrior Race principles.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: The Zin have access to Time Travel, but Zinyak only uses it to fill his collection of historically significant humans, rather than fix any historical problems.
• Self-Made Man: He comes from humble beginnings but his ruthlessness and cunning made him the Zin emperor.
• The Sociopath: The collectibles reveal that he was considered as such by several Zin during his early military career. He killed most of them too. He criticises the Boss for being one, yet his own sociopathic tendencies were on show throughout the game.
• Shadow Archetype: To the Boss. Both are self-made individuals who rose from nothing to fame and power through determination, guile and the application of extreme violence, and both are fans of Jane Austen. However, the biggest difference between them is their loyalty. Zinyak is what the Boss would become if they were arrogant and self-centered, even towards their closest lieutenants.
• Smug Snake: Most of his dialogue with the Saints consists of him saying how he's better than them. Even as the Boss is kicking his ass, he doesn't stop with how their defeat is inevitable. Taken to ridiculous levels when he still doesn't stop even as the Boss is ripping off his head. His text-adventure-style autobiography frequently mentions how brilliant and peerless a commander he supposedly is.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Talks politely as he breaks his enemies down.
• Teleporters and Transporters: He has a teleportation device on his wrist, which he uses to abduct Shaundi in The Saints Wing and the Boss in both of their fights.
• Troll: At an Olympic level. From making the Saints suffer by forcing them to live their worst nightmares to hijacking a radio station to mess with Boss and Pierce, everything Zinyak does is essentially to cause misery to people.
• Unreliable Narrator: Some parts of his text-adventure autobiography are questionable, such as his description of his home world as boorish and crude. Remember, this is from an autobiography written by a sociopathic intellectual with a big ego.
• Villain Ball: The idiocy of Zinyak leaving the data clusters lying around simulated Steelport is lampshaded by Kinzie in the mission that introduces them. He compounds his error by failing to get rid of the remainder once it becomes clear that the Boss and the Saints are using them to undermine his control of the simulation. Moreover, his severe underestimation of the Saints allows them to get close enough to make the simulation break down, and for them to physically reach him.
• Villain Teleportation
• Warrior Poet
• Wicked Cultured: Is very well versed in the Earth arts, including the works of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. He is also a big Downton Abbey fan, and is the DJ for 102.4 Klassic FM, which plays classical music from composers such as Bach, Chopin and van Beethoven.
• Zero Effort Boss: In the first mission of the Enter the Dominatrix DLC, Zinyak goes down with one bullet. He is understandably irked, especially considering he was given a very long health bar.

Zinjai

Played By: Mark Allen Stuart

Zinyak's manservant until his death at the Boss' hands, to which Zinjai becomes their manservant.

• Anti-Villain: He does not ever directly act against the Saints, and seems polite both before and after Zinyak is dethroned.
• Extreme Doormat: He was an accomplished soldier and scientist, as revealed in Zinyak's text adventure, but was made by Zinyak to be the first to test the simulation he built.
• Last-Episode New Character: He only appears during the last mission, before the final fight. He explains the Zin's technology to the Boss after the fight, who is now his new emperor.
• The Smart Guy: He created Zinyak's simulation, but ends up becoming the first test subject.
• Yes-Man: To Zinyak, and to the Boss after they dethrone Zinyak.

The Dominatrix

The Big Bad of the Enter the Dominatrix DLC, which was going to be a DLC package for the third game. The simulation AI gains sentience, and takes the form and personality of a ruthless dominatrix.

• Big Bad: Of the Enter The Dominatrix DLC.
• Bondage Is Bad: She takes the form of a dominatrix and attempts to completely take over the entire simulation and turn everyone in it into her pets. Given that she is up against the Saints, it doesn't go too well.
• Dark Action Girl: She has super powers of her own and an army of minions.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: Her motivation for trying to enslave the entire simulation is unclear other than for pleasure.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Naturally.
• Stripperiffic: Not surprising, considering her role.
• Virtual Reality Warper: With similar rule-breaking powers over the simulation as Zinyak, she easily imbues herself with superhuman abilities, as well as dividing herself into dozens of replicas, with each one growing stronger when the Boss kills one.
• What Could Have Been: In-universe. The DLC is framed as a DVD extra explaining what the Enter The Dominatrix expansion for the third game could have been like.

Clawz

An evil, psychopathic version of Santa Claus created by Zinyak in his simulation. He torments the good Claus in the simulation by corrupting the meaning of Christmas, and serves as the driving force behind the How The Saints Save Christmas DLC story.

• Bad Santa
• Big Bad: of the How The Saints Save Christmas DLC.
• One-Winged Angel: Becomes a large monster right before the last mission.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: On a giant Christmas tree.
• Rhymes on a Dime: In the style of a Dr. Seuss book, like How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Every single line he says rhymes with the previous or next one.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Because his powers come from destroying and mangling the holiday spirit, he can be harmed by Christmas (or any other holiday) cheer. The Boss defeats him by throwing presents at his shield and dropping him on a Christmas tree.

Legions of Hell

Satan

Played By: Travis Willingham

The Prince of Darkness himself. He kidnaps the Boss and transports them to hell to marry his daughter, forcing Johnny Gat and Kinzie to save them.

• Abusive Parent: Tells Jezebel she "belongs to him", slaps her when she is defiant and threatens to kill her when Gat points a gun at him.
• Antagonistic Offspring: Hates his father God, and wants to declare war on Heaven out of spite.
• Bad Boss
  • When Vlad one warned Satan that he did not have enough manpower to successfully invade Heaven, Satan ignored, and it went as lad expected. Satan blamed him for it, and sentenced him to eternal torment.
  • Satan is overjoyed for Gat causing the destruction and murder of all of his property and men during the course of the game, claiming it demonstrates Gat's cunning and ruthlessness.
• Beard of Evil: A small, black one.
• Big Bad: Of Gat out of Hell.
• Big Red Devil
• The Devil Is a Loser: Is humiliatingly defeated by two mortals, with the help of his own poorly-treated daughter, and has to banish them from Hell to soothe his bruised ego.
• Equal Opportunity Evil: Satan does not discriminate based off any quality when it comes to building up his army for the coming war against Heaven.
• Evil Brit: Has an English accent.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • The infliction of eternal suffering to both damned souls and demonic hordes aside, he mentions that the Barrens were once a festive land before it was The Heavenly Host laid waste to in a Heaven/Hell scuffle. He has since forbidden rebuilding it until he conquers Heaven as a reminder of their loss.
  • Satan's banishment to Hell was supposed to be temporary, and that God put a cathedral down there where Satan could repent and receive forgiveness. Satan leaves it there as a message to God, that he's deliberately rejecting this opportunity for eternity. It's also implied that Hell wasn't that bad a place (more a "time-out space") until Satan made it a place of suffering, again to spite God.
• Evil Sounds Deep
• Faux Affably Evil: His voice sounds rather jovial and upbeat, and when talking to anyone besides his daughter, he seems genuinely friendly. All of this is strongly contrasted to how everything he says is dripping with malice and sadism, and the friendly persona shatters quite quickly, replaced with anger and hatred, when his authority is challenged by Gat.
• Fisher King: In the audio-tomes, it is implied by Satan that when he was originally cast into Hell, it was meant to be a "time-out space" before Satan corrupted it into the fiery lake of eternal suffering it is now.
• Horned Humanoid: Two massive horns.
• I Have No Daughter: After Johnny or Kinzie defeat him, he banishes Jezebel from Hell with them and the Boss, basically disowning her.
• Large and In Charge: Is a really tall and buff demon.
• Monster Modesty: The only thing he wears to cover up is some sort of loincloth that covers his junk.
• Politically-Incorrect Villain: When Jezebel interrupts him while he's speaking with Gat, Satan tells her not to speak while the men are talking. While he does accept female demons in his army, he still has some misogynistic beliefs about women.
• Real Men Wear Pink: One of the reasons why Soul Drains are called what they are is because Satan likes dancing shows and found the name ironic.
• Sadist: He's always at his most vocally happy and enthusiastic when talking about all the misery, torture, and death that happens due to how he's set up Hell, which is most notable in his audio tomes.
• Satan: The very same.
• Sore Loser: After Satan is defeated, he banishes Gat, Kinzie, the Boss and Jezebel from Hell so he can escape from the humiliation of getting his ass kicked by two mortals.
• Villain Song: Sings one to Jezebel about how she has no choice to marry the Boss, and that she belongs to him.
• Worthy Opponent: Upon seeing Gat firsthand and his self-sacrificing nature, he deems him to be this, and demands he marry Jezebel instead.

Jezebel Mephistopheles

Played By: Kate Reinders

Satan's daughter, who arranges for her to marry the Boss, though she doesn't approve.

• Anti-Anti-Christ: Has no intentions of becoming an evil ruler of Hell like her father.
• Curtains Match the Window: Red hair, red eyes, red skin... she is a demon.
• Cute Monster Girl: Has turned out surprisingly attractive considering she's Satan's daughter.
• Daddy's Little Villain: Averted, to her father's ire. She wants to be free from her father, and find her own love. Satan doesn't take kindly to it.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She wears a purple dress and her room is mostly purple.
• Hot as Hell: Instead of the demonic look of Satan and his minions, Jezebel looks like an attractive human woman. In addition, unlike many instances of this trope (and her namesake), she's not really a seducer archetype, but beautiful in a much more wholesome way. She's almost a Disney Princess except for being red and horned.
• "I Want" Song: Sings about her desire to be free from her father's grip, and to find her own love.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Subverted due to being one of the nicest people in the cast.
• Nice Girl: To everyone except her father, who frankly deserves it.
• Rebellious Princess: Wants to have a purpose other than to solely be her father's pawn.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter

Blackbeard

Played By: Matthew Mercer

The king of pirates himself. Blackbeard has set up his ship, named Queen Anne's Revenge, in the Barrens. This desolate wasteland is ideal for him since the demons will leave him alone, save for some pernicious imps.

• Acrofatic: His paunch doesn't stop him from running around his ship drop-kicking imps.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Blackbeard has been systematically robbing Satan's tax collectors for years to make himself rich off Satan's money,who is seriously irked by this.
• Drop the Hammer: He keeps the God's Hammer in a trunk on his ship.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: He summoned hellish imps onto his ship to serve as a replacement crew, but the imps refused to take orders from him and ended up mutinying instead. Good thing Gat was there to get rid of them for him. The imps are more willing to serve Gat afterwards.
• Historical Domain Character
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: He drop-kicks an imp into the air after it crawls out of one of his ship's exhaust pipes.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: In Blackbeard's fifth audio tome, he explains that there is a plethora of riches ripe for Blackbeard to easily take across New Hades. However, he deliberately clues potential competitors in on how to find them because to him, wealth means nothing if there's nobody to compete with to get it.
• Pirate: The most well-known of them all.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like Shakespeare and Vlad.
• Shaped Like Itself: In Blackbeard's second audio tome, he says, "A pirate without water to sail on is like a... pirate without water to sail on."
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: He doesn't want to hide his arm tattoos, does he?
• Talk Like a Pirate: Obviously. That said, his accent is more Irish than Devonshire (where the real Blackbeard was from). Gat initially thinks he's just putting on a pirate voice.
• Tattooed Crook

William Shakespeare

Played By: Liam O'Brien

The legendary Shakespeare was once one of Satan's top minions until he was found teaching his daughter some of his works, and was thrown out. He now runs New Hades' entertainment district.

• Deal with the Devil: Sold his soul to Satan so his plays could get the fame they deserved.
• Eskimos Aren't Real: The launch trailer claimed that he was a fictional character from all those movies about poems and love.
• Historical Domain Character
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Downplayed. William Shakespeare was not known to make a Deal with the Devil for fame, but by the time of the game, he's no longer in Satan's good graces.
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: The Shawarma cutscene shows that he revitalises his fame by burying Shogo Akuji alive, exhuming him, then burying him again, forever, a call back to the second game mission Rest in Peace.
• Large Ham: He is a playwright after all.
• Pet the Dog: While he admits that the plays Jezebel wrote for him were terrible, she found her zeal for happy subject matter worth it, seeing her at least as a true friend.
• Pointy Ears: Has them in New Hades
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like Blackbeard and Vlad.
• The Spymaster: Served as one for Satan before he was banished and joined Gat's rebellion.
• Third-Person Person: In addition to always speaking as if he's giving stage directions, Shakespeare always refers to himself in the third person. An audio log reveals that he does this to make him seem more mysterious.

Vlad the Impaler

Played By: Liam O'Brien

• Cassandra Did It: When Vlad told Satan that their next battle with Heaven was not going to fare well due to their lack of manpower, Satan ignored him. When it worked out as well as Vlad predicted, he blamed Vlad for it, and sentenced him to eternal torment.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: The Shawarma cutscene shows that Vlad has made Killbane his torture monkey. He is Vlad the Impaler, after all.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Vlad's torture punishment for losing a battle with Heaven is being stuck in an elementary school setting and being forced to listen to The Wheels on the Bus for eternity.
• Disproportionate Retribution: What does Vlad wish to do to all the frat demons who broke into his castle and used it as their own personal clubhouse? Systematically impale them, of course!
• Funny Foreigner: Putting Wallachian tyrant Vlad the Impaler through a comical form of torture has added an element of humour to his character.
• Heroic BSOD: After listening to The Wheels on the Bus for what felt like an eternity, Vlad faints from the trauma, forcing Gat/Kinzie to revive him.
• Historical Domain Character: He was also the historical basis for Count Dracula.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: He used to be a brutal Wallachian tyrant feared by countless people. Now he's a put-upon prisoner of Hell tortured by being forced to listen to nursery rhymes forever.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like Blackbeard and Shakespeare.
• Tin Tyrant: He wears black armour with glowing highlights.
• Torment by Annoyance: Forced by Satan to listen to The Wheels on the Bus on repeat for eternity, for failure regarding a lost battle with Heaven that he warned Satan was unwinnable.