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In the beginning of the Grand Theft Auto series, players were given the option in Grand Theft Auto 1 to select one of eight different protagonists to play as in the game. Despite the varied selection of characters, they are no different in-game in terms of abilities, the only variance being the color of their clothes and skins. Each character has a default first name which the player may immediately use, but can be renamed according to your wish.

In addition to featuring characters of different appearances and backgrounds, the game is also notable for featuring both male and female protagonists to choose (the female protagonists aren't available in the Playstation version of the game). The characters are illustrated in the same manner as other characters in the game, with a semi-realistic but somewhat stylized facial design.

List of protagonists

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Default name Image Notes
Bubba
Bubba

Male character. Depicted as obese and tough (with a cigar in his mouth).

Bubba was they're leader, he was natural from Liberty and born there just like his old friends Troy and Travis, who always live there to. He was in jail for many years for grand theft auto, money robbery and assasination targets. As a man who loves cigars and leader of his neighbourhood, he just wanted to achieve something as a higest rank serial killer, he had that oportunity when he saw's the city out of control from the leader of Liberty City Crime Gang, Sonetti Crime Gang. He offers him self for a job to a Crime Lord named Bubby who tells him to work under cover for Sonetti and in the end kill him, Bubba does that with the help of all his team who were working each one under cover for other mafia gangs to the entire city, plus Vice City and San Andreas, whithout Bubby knowing that Bubba had friends working for him he was leaving the city, before he goes, Bubba told him that he had a team and wanted to control all three states, so Bubby wished him good luck and left Liberty City. At the end these eight members eventualy escaped thouse gang wars in these cities and became the Liberty City's higest Crime Gang above the others, they're leader was Bubba, the man who got want he wanted. They became the «Bubba Crime Gang Mob».

Divine
Divine

Female character. Depicted as being of African descent.

Divine is a misterious afro- american girl, nobody in the team knows very much about her, it was said that she burned and killed all gangs hideouts of her family for some reason. She was in jail for some years to, but when she got out she theft cars for some reason and until today nobody found them, this made Ulrika search her and tell her to join the team.

Katie
Katie

Female character.

Katie his a Catalina type of woman, she is hispanic, and she had many «chulos» as she call them, as boyfriends who robbed cars, smugled people, and had a criminal record for killing people while robbing gas stations, she killed almost all of her boyfriends during robberings taking all the money to herself, Ulrika heard about her and brought her to the team.

Kivlov
Kivlov

Male character. Suggested by name to be of Eastern European or Russian descent.

Kivlov came in 1997 to Liberty City from Schecslovaquia with some of his men, he came for a dealing with Sonetti, Sonetti ambushed him and his men killing them, Kivlov was the only one who survived and wanted revenge, he heard about Bubba's team and his plot against Sonetti and eventualy joined them, not enjoying that Bubba was the leader of the team telling him that «he doesn't know how to lead a real mafia gang, and they weren't a gang».

Mikki
Mikki

Female character.

Mikki was an asian- american girl, she was the first join Ulrika's girl team, for some reason Ulrika knew her.

Travis
Travis

Male character. He is a reference to Travis Bickle, the main character in the movie Taxi Driver.

Travis was earlier a taxi driver, who was robbed and almost beeing killed in service by local gangs in Liberty, since then he became crazy and lunatic trying to find them and killed them all, back in his home he trained hard in front of a mirror to be the higest sharpshooter against all the gangs ho atacked him and not only them but all gangs in Liberty, he lost his job because of his issues with gangs and later he meet Bubba and Troy and joined them for many years. Bubba calls him «freak» but in a god way, and somehow he managed to put Travis in the team, despite Troy never trusted him.

Troy
Troy

Male character. Depicted as being of African descent.

Troy is Bubba's best friend, who lived in the same neighbourhood, he wanted to help Bubba with his path and was the first to join him, beeing the second in command. His past life was on drugs, trying to leave them and change his life. He, Bubba and Travis robbed banks, killed gangs and spended all the money for beers and whiskies, bought drugs, at the end they never had nothing and needed more. So this was the chance to have everything.

Ulrika
Ulrika

Female character. Suggested by name to be of Eastern European or Russian descent.

Ulrika was Sonetti's main secretary assistant in his building, she was the one who solved his problems in her desk, paper problems. Soon as she heard Bubba was there working for Sonetti, she had the mission from Sonetti's himself to discover who's Bubba, searching his criminal records, etc... Then when she find out that he was there to kill him, instead of telling Sonetti, she joined Bubba for destroying Sonetti to. She was the first female character to enter in a GTA world. Later on, Bubba orders her to pick more people to they're gang, she shoses to pick only women hand she found three who joined her and Bubba's team, those were Mikki, Katie and Divine, the first and only women to being protagonists in the GTA games. They finally made Bubba's own gang, the team was complete, Ulrika became the leader of the girls and in the end she became Bubba's assistant during they're leadership in Libert City.

See also

[ ve ]Characters in Grand Theft Auto
Protagonists
Bubba | Divine | Katie | Kivlov | Mikki | Travis | Troy | Ulrika
Japanese release exclusiveBison | Jack
Game Boy Color exclusiveKelly | BigMac | Brains | Christie | Dog End | Fingers | Goodlad | Noodles | Redneck | Rizzo | Skipper | Snowy | Spook | Thud | Turbo | Vinny
Main CharactersVercotti Family contact | Robert "Bubby" Seragliano | "Bald Man" Sonetti | Uncle Fu | Crime Syndicate contact | El Burro | Samuel Deever | Brother Marcus
Minor Characters
(Liberty City)
"Crazy" Jimmy Waterson | Dulli | Mason | Tony Dio | Tommy Romero | Skye | Brad | Pablo Vercotti | Seymour Reamer | Vega | Vesuvio | Mel | Coffey | Chink | Shitter | Cabot | Dumb Kurt | Sonetti's Lawyer | Sonetti's Right-Hand Man | Mayoress
Minor Characters
(San Andreas)
Bryson | No Chin | Pu Ling | Pu Ping | Chu Ying | Ho Ching | Lei Ming | Chu Wing Dung | Fu Ming | Hang Yu | Jimmy the Shovel | Wun Tun Chun | Ho Hung | Long Wang | Chow Yun Thin | Don Traegeri | Timio | Colini | Mr. Kivlane | Mr. Watersane | Mr. Watsane | Mr. Johnsane | Keith Ham Yel Tun | Julio | Manolito | Paulo | Ricardo | Alve | Paco | Pepe | Jorge | Jose | Pedro | Alfonso | Rodrigo | Chico | Mike Tallon
Minor Characters
(Vice City)
Pauly | Begbie | Brother Marcus' mother | Dell | Jimi | Brother Leroy | Samuel Deever's daughter | Spindly Jim | Brother Maelcum | Judge Alberts | President of the United States | Richie's Partner | Rookie Cop | Rookie Cop's Wife | The Angels' Leader | Samuel Deever's Wife
Radio characters
Radio hostsEddie Symons | Fergus Buckner
MusiciansAlex | Colin | Robert DeNegro | Sideways Hank O'Mally
BandsAnimal Testing Centre | Ashtar | Bleeding Stump | CCC | Da Shootaz | Ghetto Fingers | Government Listening Post | Meme Traders | Ohjaamo | Reality Bubble | Retrograde | Rotorman | Slumpussy | Stikki Fingers | Stylus Exodus | Technophiliak | The Alabama Bottle Boys | The Hounds | Trancefer
Mentioned charactersBig Ginge | Brother Aerol | Brother Davey | Brother Eck | Brother Soapy | Brother Boab | Brother Wullie | Brother Hen | Brother Horace | Brother Joe | Brother Paw | Brother Granpaw | Chad | Craig Laing | Crazy Bob | Dana | Diego | Eddie | Father O'Malley | Fox | Hung Well | Jack | Jefe | Joe | Keith Hamilton | Lara | Louise | Mary Clam | Pam | Richie | Sarah | Samuel Deever's ex-wife | Samuel Deever's Wife | Sister Bairn | Sister Daphne | Sister Maggie | Sister Maw | Sye | Teri | Yu Pong
denotes Deceased, Italics denotes a status determined by the player's choice
Characters in GTA (1997 game) | Category:Characters in GTA 1 | Grand Theft Auto (1997 game) | Category:Characters
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