When I tell you CJ is the BEST GTA Protagonist …bro he literally became one of the most dangerous men in America. The connections he gained through is crusade across San Andreas is unparalleled.
He could also be much more influential than Tommy ever was. Tommy's reach are only limited to Vice City as we know so far while sigma CJ literally manages one of the largest street gangs in LS, owning both a garage and a successful dealership in SF, and even owning shares at potentially the richest casino in LV. And if we so choose, he can own profitable properties around the map of the game, essentially granting him control over the entire state of San Andreas. Heck, his ties to a dangerous Chinese Triads and possibly government agency provided him protection from literally any threat. No one can even come close to laying a finger on CJ himself. This dude is OP shxt...
Wu Zi Mu is both cursed with blindness and blessed with incredible good fortune. Like the book says, we are both blessed and cursed. Fridge brilliance.
CJ is my favourite character in gta by far, his dry sense of humour is perfect for making all the crazy stuff he goes through more palatable, and I mean just look at his resume by the end of the game. The man literally took on all of SA, including the most secret government base in America, a whole faction of the mafia, and (if you could be bothered) all gang territories in LS. Absolute king
“Man that’s the problem, you always a perpetrator, always running from what’s real!” Man fuck you sweet! yeah, go take back the hood but expand it bro, have shit in san fierro, las venturas. Like ffs, srsly how respected would gsf be if they were all over San Andreas??
as someone who grew up on GTA. i honestly believe CJ is the greatest character the series ever created. they should really bring him back somehow as an older OG, established as a Boss.
It won't happen, seeing as characters that have had a visual appearance in the 3D universe GTA games (III, Vice City, GTA Advanced, San Andreas, LCS, and VCS) don't exist in the HD universe GTA games (IV, Chinatown Wars, V).
@@Durzeo Yes, but the HD og loc doesn't know CJ or Sweet at all. Or how the old Mafia families in GTA 3 isnt mentioned at all in GTA IV or GTA V. How GTA 3 (2001) has S.W.A.T, FBI and CIA but yet in GTA IV (2008) it's the N.O.O S E, FIB and IAA Think of it how comic book does multiverses. That's how I see it
@@planderlinde1969 CJ left and lived in Liberty City and it showed him and taught him how much the world is big and what it can offer to him and what he can offer as well, but Sweet never left.
@@EllieWilliams2056 i get it, but he shouldn't be disrespecting CJ and Kendell like that. He gets mad at them for leaving the neighborhood and finding real work. CJ risk his life to get Sweet out of jail. Sweet is ungrateful and stupid.
I like how the vago disappeared from the stairs as soon as tenpenny told Carl he needed a favor lol. He was like "Awe sh*t here we go again. I already know where this is going." Then just pieced tf out😂🤣😂
It would be nice if they had side stories missions that explain Carl's life before San andreas. How he grew up and how hard his life was and just where he comes from from a teenager to a men
@@soulindenial5001 yes that would of been nice foreal. Like imagine that though cjs childhood lol the only thing I don't like is after San Andreas gta went another direction with new characters and much more. I was hoping cj had a son and cj got old died of old age and much more lol
I love Toreno, he’s one of my favourite characters in the whole GTA universe! I love how he is actually true to his word in the end. 😎 I hate Sweet in this game honestly, the most appropriate line in thus while game is “what the hood done for me” when he was literally going to give sweet a life that most “ hood gangstaz” dream about! 😄
@@MrBronx61 Never forget that CJ was right in that instance. Owned a garage in San Fierro, and has a share in a casino in Las Venturas, and was managing for Madd Dogg. CJ was raking in a bunch of money and all Sweet cared about was the hood.
@@Diamond_2403 CJ had a great point while he was from the grove, he built up using some contacts and forced contacts into building something much bigger then his brother ever wanted to just owning the street. Even if Sweet kept up his life CJ could have had many places and ways to filter that money around. Even more so with his casino stake allowing another way to filter that money about. going from some small time gang to owner of a big time criminal. While sweet was stuck in the hood, CJ did everything he could to keep sweet happy in the end while living what would be a great life.
I agree. Toreno keeps his word. Sweet is a big idiot and a hypocrite. He's just a small time loser gangster. CJ and his sister made smart choices and more money than sweet ever did
Its great seeing GTA SA still getting love from creators and Fans like you! Hey, Speaking of, I'm making Lore videos on GTA characters which I think you might enjoy! I did one on Big Bear recently and I've also done one on Big Smoke and Ryder! I plan to do many more on the other characters in the future! You should swing by my channel and check them out when you get a chance! would be kinda incredible if I could get your thoughts on them!
@@equanimity92 Can never have too many SA videos. Best GTA of all time. Only thing it needs is a remaster and maybe online. Anyway I'll check your channel out for sure!
The thing that bugs me the most about the Trilogy remake is that we'll most likely never have game that actually expands on this world and Carls story.
what would they do to expand his story? Its finished. what could they do that wouldn't feel like unnecssary fluff for the sake of nostalgia? I love Carl as a character dont get me wrong but I dont want a new game with him as the protagonist, His story is complete and I'm happy with how it ended
@@whitepaws60 Biggest thing is to do something with Ryder, his fate is just so unepic. Ofc thats hard, speaker wise. Maybe a prequel or sequel. We could play Carl in Vice city, or before going to VC. Or maybe a few mission after the end, doesnt even have to be with Carl. Just to see what happened to LS after Tenpenny. There are possibilities, but they'll probably never be used.
I'm pretty sure those "international deals" was just Big Smoke being blackmailed into doing Tenpenny's dirty work, as is the case with most of Big Smoke's missions. But I have no evidence to support this conjecture.
That's all they were. Every big smoke mission is him doing ten penny's dirty work while manipulating cj into thinking these over the top schemes were to help out grove street. That's why Carl is always suspicious, confused and questioning Smoke while doing the missions for him, he feels something is off but didn't put the pieces together until Caesar shows CJ that smoke and Ryder worked with tenpenny on the final LS mission before being sent to the rural area
32:42 Carl : _builds an entire successful operation without profiting off the crack cocaine drug trade while working his @ss off making sure that his brother is well cared for in prison and to ensure his early release_ Sweet (the incarcerated brother with the life sentence dangling over his head) : "you did things outside the hood, man. You should know better, CJ. You're like Smoke !"
And he also killed a lot of his enemies , mafias and gangs in 4 cities while most other GTA protagonists only have to do that in one city. He's truly the most dangerous 😈😎. But I also like all other GTA protagonists , CJ and Niko are just my most favorite.
Not exactly. He only had connections everywhere in the states. Also, keep in mind that those three cities most likely aren't the only cities in San Andreas.
HOW THE F does this guy only have 500 subs!? Just wanna say I found out your channel yesterday and I am addicted. I'm at the moment eating 2 cheeseburgers and drinking a large soda while I watch this amazing video. Thank you, I am a GTA fanatic so please keep going.
Its great seeing GTA SA still getting love from creators and Fans like you! Hey, Speaking of, I'm making Lore videos on GTA characters which I think you might enjoy! I did one on Big Bear recently and I've also done one on Big Smoke and Ryder! I plan to do many more on the other characters in the future! You should swing by my channel and check them out when you get a chance! would be kinda incredible if I could get your thoughts on them!
@@equanimity92 thanks for sharing your work! I'll be checking your channel in a moment!! GTA will never die for me it's a shame that Rockstar is not the same anymore and now they're a bunch of greedy bastards.
San Andreas has the best body removal system in the world . Coroners are invisible and the paramedics always manage to revive a body , as long as there's a head still attached ....and let's not forget that inside every garage there are magic elves that repair you car no matter how trashed you bring it in . Life's good!
@@chesterstevens8870 trevor wiped out one of the last sets of the aztecas . They were a dying gang in gta 5 they got pushed out of LS and went north up to sandy shores and theres even a few in paleto pay i believe for random side events
Its great seeing GTA SA still getting love from creators and Fans like you! Hey, Speaking of, I'm making Lore videos on GTA characters which I think you might enjoy! I did one on Big Bear recently and I've also done one on Big Smoke and Ryder! I plan to do many more on the other characters in the future! You should swing by my channel and check them out when you get a chance! would be kinda incredible if I could get your thoughts on them!
He's already at 1.15k. And you just posted this comment last week. He's on his way up. I feel like this video is gonna be the one to make his channel blow. San andreas is a legendary game and this video is legendary also. Mark my words he gone be at 10k before this year is over.
@@TheCriminalHistorian good work bro , keep up doing it. You should also do some biography on his characters from GTA, regardless of how insignificant they are and barely appear
You had me right when you read out "Grand Theft Autobiographies". Such a great idea and these videos are so well put together, I can see this channel blowing up fast. I'd love to see some of these on Read Dead characters, as well. Subbed !
unpopular opinion: mike toreno is possibly my favorite character because he's that stereotypical FBI agent that sits in a high tower watching you do the dirty work and tunes in a couple times, albeit with golden yet forgettable lines
That opinion isn't unpopular at all. Many fans of this game consider Toreno their favorite character of the game, thanks particularly to his voice actor, James Woods.
If you notice any mistakes in my videos please let me know in a comment. I will append anything I find to pinned comments from now on. In this video I mispoke and said the Varios Los Aztecas were a vagos set rather than an indepenant mexcian gang who rivaled with the vagos. - thanks to James Anderson for this correction. It has also been brought to my attention that an exact birthdate is known for CJ: August 11th, 1968. - Thanks to Taleh for this correction. At the end of season 1 I will probably do a video about any mistakes I made.
@@Neg44 I understand your confusion. I said " formed the Grove Street Families gang with the elder Johnson brother serving as the leader " A better choice of words would have been "made up" perhaps but I never meant to imply they started the gang it its entirety. Sorry for the ambiguity.
I know this video is mostly about CJ but it covers all the important story bits in a well done documentary esque style, and makes want to replay it. Man, San Andreas was ahead of its time!
Now this is unique, I’m blown away at this. This is an insanely genius idea/concept- hope to see more of these. Quite refreshing. The editing, production is phenomenal. I’m definitely subbing, and if this video is a hint at what this channels about? I’m becoming a patreon.
GTA San Andreas would be the only game in the series where the protagonist doesn't kill the final antagonist (unless you count GTA V's first two endings, you're playing as the characters you can kill off).
I mean, chasing Tenpenny with a car and shooting at him so much that he crashes off a bridge... That still feels a lot like killing, even though he doesn't put the final bullet in him. He still dies right away as a result of this. But I get your point also.
@@TheCriminalHistorian CJ and Toni will have the highest total bodycount. CJ killed a lot of people and caused a damages in 4 cities he went [Los Santos , San Fierro , Las Venturas and Liberty City (in one mission)] while most other GTA protagonists only do that in one city. And Toni literally blew up / destroyed the whole of Fort Staunton district.
Its great seeing GTA SA still getting love from creators and Fans like you! Hey, Speaking of, I'm making Lore videos on GTA characters which I think you might enjoy! I did one on Big Bear recently and I've also done one on Big Smoke and Ryder! I plan to do many more on the other characters in the future! You should swing by my channel and check them out when you get a chance! would be kinda incredible if I could get your thoughts on them!
i just love how every past GTA character or persons like claude and kent paul where in san andreas. I kinda hope we get more cameo's now that we get the trilogy remastered
Its great seeing GTA SA still getting love from creators and Fans like you! Hey, Speaking of, I'm making Lore videos on GTA characters which I think you might enjoy! I did one on Big Bear recently and I've also done one on Big Smoke and Ryder! I plan to do many more on the other characters in the future! You should swing by my channel and check them out when you get a chance! would be kinda incredible if I could get your thoughts on them!
I remember there was rumors of a prequel to a San Andreas for years after it came out. Similar to how we got Liberty City/vice city stories. But instead we got a short machinerma instead.
Honestly this is the first video I watched on this channel a couple days ago and I hope this channels exceeds and makes a million subscribers within a couple of years
Now THIS is the gta content i'm looking for No clickbait not trykng to extend by providing useless info straight to point and easy to understand explanation even for me a foreigner that's having trouble understanding the story
Chad CJ: Didn’t let money get to him, ended a drug epidemic in his hometown, freed his brother, got rid of corrupt cops, has multiple girlfriends. Virgin Franklin: robbed banks, sold drugs, happily worked with corrupt cops, can’t even keep 1 girlfriend (tanisha)
CJ robbed a bank and a Casino, Franklin was working alongside 2 known criminals. Franklin also didn't want to sell drugs, that was Lamar and again, it was Micheal that got him working for the FiB.
Both CJ and Franklyn had the same idea of escaping the hood and both of them got out. Though CJ is probably the best and most dangerous dude from any of the protagonist. Franklyn also did great in his life becoming a successful businessman.
I love this game, after watching your documentary it's safe to say Carl Johnson is a notorious criminaland would get the death penalty! I look forward to binge watching your series and the future ones to come 💪
Its great seeing oldschool GTA games still getting love from creators and Fans like you! Hey, Speaking of, I'm making Lore videos on GTA characters which I think you might enjoy! I did one on Big Bear recently and I've also done one on Big Smoke and Ryder! I plan to do many more on the other characters in the future! You should swing by my channel and check them out when you get a chance! would be kinda incredible if I could get your thoughts on them!
All GTA protagonists can consider be either psychopaths or sociopaths because they killed a lot. But I think Vic and Luis are the least psycho. Toni , Claude and Trevor are the most psycho. CJ has about the same psycho level as Tommy and both are pretty evil protagonists.
