Franklin Clinton

Franklin Clinton is an ambitious gangster and up and coming bank robber, that has been taken under the wing of legendary thief Michael De Santa. Franklin is one of the three main protagonists of Grand Theft Auto V along with Michael and Trevor Phillips.

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Franklin was born in South Los Santos, and at some point in his young life his mother became addicted to crack cocaine, this addiction eventually led to her death. She left her house to Franklin and his aunt Denise. Around this time he began the life of a gang banger and drug dealer and started committing various crimes such as carjackings and small time robberies. Franklin's life of petty crime was short lived however and he was eventually arrested. After he was released from prison he decided to give up his old life in the ghetto.

Franklin eventually moved beyond the role of ghetto-based street dealer when he began working for Armenian gangster and con man, Simeon Yetarian. Yetarian owns a car dealership which acts as a front for a loansharking and extortion business. Yetarian's dealership sells cars to people who can't afford them and when they default on the payments Franklin acts in the role of repo man and repossesses the cars.

Grand Theft Auto V
While recovering the a high end sports car sold to a young naive rich kid named Jimmy De Santa, Franklin is surprised by Jimmy's father Michael who reveals he had been hiding in the back seat and points a handgun to Franklin's head. Under orders from Michael, Franklin smashes the car through the window of Simeon's dealership, receiving a payment from Michael himself for doing what he called "a job well done." This however effectively ends his employment.

After losing his job at the dealership, Franklin started working with Michael. Franklin helps Michael rescue Jimmy from his yacht, which was stolen with Jimmy on it during an attempted sale. Later, after Michael catches his wife post-coitus with her tennis coach, Michael and Franklin chase him to the deck of a Vinewood Hills house. Believing the house to belong to the tennis coach, Michael and Franklin use a pickup truck to pull the deck down, destroying the house. After returning to the De Santa residence, Mexican-American gang boss, Martin Madrazzo appears to reveal the house was his, and demands $2.5 million in damages from Michael.

After sometime has pass, Michael contacts Franklin to enlist him on a high end jewlery store robbery, which Franklin accepts as he sees this as his first major opportunity to become a much more successful criminal. The robbery is a success and this effectively raises Franklin through the ranks in the criminal underworld while being under Michale's wing. However Michael's former best, and highly psychotic, friend, Trevor Phillips shows up on the scene after recognizing Michale's style of robbery on the television.