Lance Vance

"This is the Lance Vance Dance!"

~Lance

"Don't worry Tommy I'll cover ya"

-Lance as a friend to Tommy

"No one to watch your back now Tommy!"

-Lance betraying his friend

Lance Vance is a character in GTA Vice City and Vice City Stories. In the game he supports the player through various missions. But his sad life and addiction to drugs made him betray his friends and sold them out. Which led him to his tragic demise.

GTA: VCS

Lance was just a kid when he joined the drug bussiness. His mother is a dug addict and has been in rehab for a long time. He, together with his two brother, was raised by their Aunt Enid. But his brother Pete was sick with asthma making his other brother Vic in charge. As a breadwinner Vic joined the army and moved to Vice City, getting himself and eventually his family to drugs.

When Vic was kicked out of the army, Lance sees this as an oppurtunity and went to Vice City to build an empire, and the good and bad credits will be on his brother. During the first scene in the game he is shown as already having knowledge about organized crime. He's not an antagoinist in the game, but his doings has gotten his brother to all sorts of trouble, even death to his woman. Even though Vic treats Lance as his baby brother, beknownst to him that Lance is only manipulating him, using him as a henchman and having romance with his brother's girl. In the end however Vic still hates drugs, on what it did to his family, and left Lance to run their bussiness to himself.

GTA: Vice City

In the first scene Lance together with his brother Vic attempts to make a deal. But their deal was ambushed, killing Vic in the process. Lance survives by driving away in his helicopter. Because of his brother's death, Lance was fuled with grief and vengeance. He plans to avenge his brother by planning to kill Ricardo Diaz, the mob lord who was responsible for his brother's death. He helps out the main protagonist, Tommy Vercetti, in gaining Diaz's trust. He successfully kills Diaz and helps Tommy build an empire.

But Lance thinks that Tommy isn't treating him well. Getting him and Tommy to bad situations. Eventually Lance betrays Tommy. When Tommy's nemesis, Sonny Forelli, attacks his mansion, Vance betrays him by telling Sonny that the money being given to him is a counterfeit, destroying Tommy's expectations. In the end Tommy chases Lance to the rooftop of his mansion and kills him.