They Were Never Meant to Survive | Niko, Johnny & Luis | A GTA IV Tragedy

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• CY

  @CynicGTA · 1 year ago · pinned

  This is a full character compilation combining my deep-dives on Niko Bellic, Johnny Klebitz, and Luis Lopez into one complete story. Each of them deserved better. From the war-torn streets of Eastern Europe, to a dying biker brotherhood, to the nightlife chaos of Liberty City… they were all broken in different ways.<br>I made this not just to highlight their individual arcs, but to show how GTA IV, more than any other game in the series, told a story about survival, betrayal, and loss.<br>Let me know who else you&apos;d want covered, main characters or side.<br>– Michael? Trevor? Franklin?<br>– Roman? Derrick? Devin Weston? Yusuf? Anyone.<br>Drop your picks below and I might add them to the list.<br><br>Appreciate you being here. ❤

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• GA

  @gamerguy247365 · 1 year ago

  I like how Florian is so loosey goosey and turbo gay &nbsp;but when he realizes Niko thinks he betrayed them he gets some bass in his voice when he&apos;s hit with such an insult, sounded like the soldier is still in there

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• JA

  @Jahdoesyt · 1 year ago

  Im still mad about johnnys death

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• NI

  @NikoK-y2m · 1 year ago (edited)

  Of all three characters in Gta iv trilogy, I think Johnny has the most tragic in-game story: Jason died, the club had a civil war and he had to kill Brian and his former brothers, Jim died, he had to kill Billy as he was gonna turn him and Angus in so he could enter the Witness Protection Program, he burned down the clubhouse after Ray&apos;s henchmen vandalized it, It was probably Ashley who got him addicted to meth and in the end, he got his brain turned to mince by Trevor.<br><br>Niko, at least, has Roman and Jacob for support (Revenge is canon for me. There&apos;s no way Niko would&apos;ve worked with Dimitri again), the taxi business, and a future nephew. The ULP contact also deleted his file, so there ain&apos;t exactly any government problem in the horizon (aside from ULP/IAA).<br><br>Luis still has his mom, Armando and Henrique, his sister (the only friendly person in his family he&apos;s in contact with. Even if it&apos;s through e-mails), the nightclubs, and he&apos;s still in contact with Tony (the latter has a photo of him in the Gta online nightclub).<br><br>But for Johnny, there&apos;s nothing left at the end of Tlad. In the final calls you can make to Angus and Ashley, he sounds broken and depressed (in his final call with Stubbs, he&apos;s sarcastic), and the FIB probably had information on him given by Billy. And the funny thing is that most of his problems could&apos;ve been avoided if he just shot Ashley at the end of the game (not in &quot;Was it worth it?&quot; as a corpse outside the club would&apos;ve drawn more attention). By shooting her, not only a lot of problems could&apos;ve been avoided, but he would&apos;ve also done her a favor, as the drugs had pretty much ruined her.

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• CA

  @carlitosmob9859 · 7 months ago

  Johnny using the street sweeper was totally insane for its time.

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• AG

  @Agent67z3 · 1 year ago

  Choices imo based on Niko&apos;s character: <br>Ivan: Spare. He felt bad for Vlad setting him up and didn&apos;t want to be Vlad&apos;s errand boy so he let Ivan go. He also saw this is unnecessary violence. <br>-<br>Clarence: Spare, because he hates Francis and didn&apos;t want to be his servant. He later regrets it. <br>-<br>Playboy/Dwayne: Side with Dwayne &amp; &nbsp;kill Playboy because he sees himself in Dwayne and because he dislikes traitors and people losing their true selves in their own success. <br>- Francis/Derrick: Although he harbors true hatred and disapproval of Francis&apos;s hypocrisy and corruption along with his Cold demeanor towards his own flesh and blood, Niko still sees Francis&apos;s point about Derrick being a literal traitor and a selfish coward who will snitch and betray anyone to stay out of prison and for self preservation. Niko despises traitorous people. Even if he might feel bad for Derrick a little in a way, he still sees him as an unpredictable liability who betrays people close to him and also being led by the influence of his drug addiction. Which most likely leads him to eliminate him....

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• UN

  @Unromalized · 8 months ago

  &quot;Lost&quot; and bros TV show is princess robot bubblegum for 50 mins straight

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• JO

  @JokerMaskGuy · 1 year ago

  4 hours and fair enough my guy

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• MR

  @mrjbtonicipriani2002 · 8 months ago

  I wish Johnny was still here I hate how Rockstar did him dirty

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• AN

  @andria9437 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I am glad that neither of Niko and Luis didn&apos;t get done dirty, at least. But still, i hate how R* treated Johnny in gta 5. They didn&apos;t only kill him, but they also turned him into a joke.

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• SA

  @salvo8657 · 10 months ago (edited)

  Video is spot on and very well-articulated. I however may correct you about Johnny not being compassionate towards Roman. We check his personality and his way of reasoning, he is not certainly a person who takes pleasure in harming people whom are weaker than him, in fairness, he was attached too much to the sense of loyalty that old school criminals used to have and unfortunately, as you said, he had to pay many of the collateral damages that people around him used to cause.. starting from billy and ending with Ashley in GTA 5 and this led him to carry actions that were not aligned with his moral code. Still a criminal yes, but with a degree of conscience and humanity too, just like Niko when he chose revenge over the deal ( canonic ending).<br>I’m still puzzled of why making such a character like Johnny K perish in such a cheap way.. scrapping what he could’ve been in future installations of the franchise

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• SH

  @Shadey473 · 1 year ago

  In a video summarizing all three protagonists from GTA IV, Niko earns having more than half the total run time

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