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00:09Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're counting down our picks for the stars of GTA who left a few
00:15loose ends behind, narratively speaking.
00:18Those triads, they don't know when to stop. They want a war, they gotta war. Now get going.
00:238-Ball, Grand Theft Auto 3.
00:318-Ball is literally one of the first people Claude meets.
00:35The pair escape their prison transport together, with the explosives expert eventually helping Claude destroy the Colombian Cartel's freighter during
00:43the Bomb DeBase mission.
00:44Here, this rifle shall help you pop some heads.
00:47And then, he's gone.
00:498-Ball never receives another major storyline appearance after the mission, despite still being alive and running his explosives business.
00:57Earlier set games like Liberty City Stories and GTA Advance tell us more about his past, but nothing explains what
01:03happens after 2001.
01:05Considering Salvatore Leone dies shortly afterward, and Liberty City's criminal landscape changes dramatically,
01:12you'd think one of the city's most connected bomb makers might have something to say about it, but apparently not.
01:18A hardware like this takes time to put together. I'll be in touch.
01:22O.G. Locke, Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas.
01:25Hey! What's happening with you, Jeffrey?
01:29Hey, man! It's O.G. Locke, homie! O.G. Locke!
01:34Cross spends most of San Andreas desperately trying to become a rap god, despite having questionable talent and even more
01:41questionable material.
01:43Eventually, C.J. and Mad Dog expose Locke for stealing Mad Dog's rhyme book, chase him across Los Santos, and
01:49force him to surrender.
01:51And that's the last we actually see of him in the game.
01:54Now what about this guy? This, uh, phony? I've got a good mind to sue his ass into next year.
02:00Does Locke give up music, get sued into oblivion, reinvent himself as a reality TV personality? No clue.
02:07Considering how much time San Andreas dedicates to his delusions of musical greatness, it's fitting that his final fate is
02:13one of obscurity.
02:14Hey! Give me a strap!
02:16Man, won't you stalls out with that shit to get in the car? You fool!
02:20Mrs. Phillips, Grand Theft Auto 5.
02:22What are you doing here?
02:24Is that how you greet your mother, Trevor?
02:28Trevor Phillips has plenty of unresolved psychological baggage, but nothing is stranger than the sudden appearance of his mother.
02:35I bet you never found a girl!
02:37Mrs. Phillips shows up in Trevor's trailer after the main story, berates her son, questions whether he loved her, and
02:44demands he steal an entire van full of dilutamol.
02:48I need you to get me some more dilutamol.
02:51I can do that!
02:52A lot of them! A truckload, literally!
02:55Trevor actually obeys, only to return and discover that she has vanished completely.
03:01No goodbye, no explanation, just a fresh dose of distress for our boy Trevor.
03:05No mother!
03:09The game never establishes where she went, or whether there was something more unusual happening during the encounter.
03:16Considering Trevor's complicated relationship with reality, fans have naturally developed theories about whether Mama Phillips was even real, or simply
03:24a construct of Trevor's broken psyche.
03:26GTA 5 itself never provides an answer.
03:29Huang Li, Grand Theft Auto, Chinatown Wars.
03:39This lesser known protagonist spends the majority of his portable GTA escapade uncovering one family betrayal after another, before discovering
03:48that his uncle Kenny was behind his father's murder.
03:51Huang kills Kenny, finally avenging his pops, but the ending immediately creates another huge question.
03:58A wounded Sing Xiaoming offers Huang the opportunity to become the de facto leader of the Triads, and then the
04:04game ends without telling us whether Huang accepts.
04:07That's fairly significant considering becoming the leader of Liberty City's Triads would completely redefine his future.
04:14Huang spends the story as a spoiled rich kid dragged reluctantly into family business, and potentially ends it running a
04:21colossal criminal organization.
04:23Whether he actually takes the throne is anyone's guess.
04:27Donald Love, Grand Theft Auto 3.
04:29I've noticed the Yakuza and the Colombians are far from friends.
04:34Let's capitalize on this business opportunity.
04:36I want you to kill the Yakuza Wakagashira, Kenji Kasson.
04:41Few GTA disappearances are as literal as Donald Love's.
04:45The billionaire media mogul employs Claude for increasingly shady jobs involving gang wars, mysterious packages, and other activities that point
04:53towards Love being an actual cannibal.
04:56Experience has taught me that a man like you can be very loyal for the right price.
05:00Then, during the appropriately named Love's disappearance, Claude heads to his employer's home and finds nobody there.
05:07Love has left the building. No body, no note, no explanation.
05:11Even Rockstar has acknowledged the mystery, stating that no one is quite sure what happened to him.
05:17That's impressive considering Liberty City Stories goes out of its way to explain several bizarre aspects of Love's earlier life,
05:24cannibalism included.
05:26He could be hosting warg parties on the other side of the world for all we know.
05:30Sorry about that, but that's sometimes the way in business.
05:33My real objective was hidden on the plane all along.
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05:50his escape.
05:51The Truth, Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas.
05:56Welcome, friend.
05:58Sup?
05:59The Truth may be GTA's greatest, walking, unanswered question.
06:03He knows about secret government facilities, convinces CJ to steal experimental military technology,
06:09talks constantly about conspiracies, and just generally seems suspiciously well-informed about everyone's affairs.
06:16Yet, when San Andreas ends, none of that is explained.
06:19I mean, fire out, man. You know, I mean you beat the system.
06:23The Truth simply turns up at the Johnson house, celebrates the victory, and disappears from the franchise.
06:29Who was he really, and how did he know so much about Area 69?
06:34What exactly did he plan to do with all that stolen government hardware?
06:38Maybe he genuinely was just an exceptionally well-connected conspiracy theorist,
06:43or maybe he took the first mothership out of San Andreas when everything was wrapped up.
06:48We got work to do. You better drive. I'll explain.
06:51The elegance does not even touch it.
06:53Maria Latour, Grand Theft Auto 3.
06:56Silence truly is golden, it's just a shame nobody told Maria that.
07:01Claude rescues her from Catalina during the game's final mission,
07:04where the two walk off together as the credits start to roll, a la cinema.
07:08And then, Maria immediately begins talking, and talking, and talking.
07:14We're gonna have such fun, cause you know, I love you.
07:17I really do, cause you're such a big strong man, and that's just what I mean.
07:21Anyway, what was I saying?
07:22The screen fades to black, a gunshot rings out, and Maria abruptly stops.
07:28Did Claude finally lose patience and shoot her?
07:31Did he fire into the air to shut her up?
07:33Was it just a deliberately dark joke?
07:35The game never shows us what happened, meaning Maria is GTA's very own Schrodinger's Cat Lady.
07:41Given Claude's willingness to murder practically anyone who becomes inconvenient,
07:46neither interpretation feels completely impossible.
07:48There have been no official denials concerning rumors that the dead were members of the Colombian cartel,
07:54and still no leads as to the cause of the massacre.
07:57Tony Cipriani, Grand Theft Auto, Liberty City Stories.
08:01Some guy you're seeing, you're my boss's girl!
08:04Shh, come on Tony, don't be so square!
08:07Tony gets one of the strangest chronological arcs in GTA.
08:11Liberty City Stories shows him rising through the Leone family,
08:14and securing his position as Salvatore's most important enforcer.
08:18Three years later, in GTA 3, he's still a powerful capo, giving Claude jobs against the Triads.
08:268-Ball can supply you with what you're gonna need.
08:29Then, Tony disappears from the storyline shortly before Claude's relationship with Leone's completely collapses.
08:34We never learn what Tony does after his boss dies.
08:38Does he take over the family?
08:40Retaliate against Claude?
08:41Leave organized crime?
08:43Keep eating at mamas forever?
08:44Rockstar never follows up.
08:46Tony!
08:48How's your mama?
08:50She's a great woman, you know. Strong. Firenze.
08:53She's good.
08:54Claude, Grand Theft Auto 3.
08:56I'm Yakuza, and I know you worked for Salvatore Leone's family.
09:00Claude accomplishes everything he set out to do in GTA 3.
09:04Catalina betrays him, so he hunts her across Liberty City, and eventually blows her helicopter out of the sky.
09:10Well, I got news for you. Shooting you will be a pleasure, but dating you was only business.
09:16You are muy pequeñito amigo.
09:17Revenge achieved.
09:19Then, he walks away, and his story simply stops.
09:23Rockstar later confirmed that Claude isn't dead, but also admitted that what became of him afterward remains unknown.
09:29That leaves enormous questions.
09:32Did he continue working as a hired killer?
09:34Leave Liberty City?
09:35Become another major crime boss?
09:37Considering Claude spent the game betraying practically every criminal faction willing to employ him,
09:43quietly retiring somewhere would probably have been the safest option.
09:46We know he survived, but everything after that is a blank page.
09:50I gave my word that you were the man, so don't screw this up.
09:54Get him to the bank before 5 o'clock, not a minute after.
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10:23Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto 4
10:25Capitalism is a dirty business.
10:28Yeah? Like war?
10:30Not exactly.
10:32He's considered by many as GTA's GOAT, so having someone of Niko's caliber suddenly disappear from the series feels remarkably
10:40deliberate.
10:41Both endings of GTA 4 leave Niko alive but emotionally devastated, either by Roman or Kate's death.
10:48I don't know.
10:50What did I do?
10:53But we're done.
10:54By GTA 5, Lester briefly remembers an Eastern European criminal who had been making moves in Liberty City before going
11:02quiet, while Packy admits he doesn't really know what happened to his old accomplice.
11:07There are playful Easter eggs suggesting Niko may still be around, but nothing provides a definitive continuation of his story.
11:14Did he finally abandon crime and achieve some imitation of the American dream? Or did Liberty City eventually catch up
11:21with him?
11:22After everything Niko endured, his future remains exactly where he wanted it. Out of sight.
11:28He told me to leave it. I thought I had. I thought it was over.
11:33It's never over, I am.
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