Donald Love

"Nothing drives down real estate prices like a good old fashioned gang war, apart from the outbreak of a plague, but that might be going too far in this case."

- Donald Love to Claude.

Donald Love is a character in the Grand Theft Auto videogame series that serves as the deuteragonist in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and the main character of GTA III; he is also a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

He is depicted as a wealthy media mogul with macabre hobbies.

In GTA III, he was voiced by Kyle MacLachlan, who also portrayed Cliff Vandercave in the 1994 live-action movie The Flintstones.

Personality
Donald Love has painted himself as an energic, charismatic, wealthy bachelor, but his true personality is hidden to all but his closest associates.

While appearing well-mannered towards the protagonists or Salvatore Leone, Donald is actually deranged, sly, clever, manipulative, egotistical, power-hungry and eccentric. He appears quite childish and immature in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty Stories, but became more like a composed mastermind in Grand Theft Auto III. Donald is quite delusional, as he genuinely believes to do the good things for Liberty City and the United States as a whole, even though he caused a lot of misery, deaths, destructions and wars between gangs. He is rather optimistic, but sometimes loses his cool and even berates Toni Cipriani for his failures, especially when he was nearly ruined.

Donald is a cannibal, which disgust Toni (though overtime he became accustomed), and enjoys eating human's flesh. He doesn't seem to have any qualms on what person he decides to consume, as he ate his own mentor, Avery Carrington at one of his "parties". While in Grand Theft Auto III, his bizarre tastes are implied, but not confirmed, in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty Stories Donald shows his true colors.

Love has in fact absolutely no boundaries and is willing to do everything in his quest of fortune. He has perverted and sadistic tendencies, as he often mocks his foes, happily orders the annihilation of Fort Stauton without a second thought, and orders his associates to kill his enemies for his "morgue parties", during which he presumably rapes their corpses post-mortem.

He was also an opportunist, this is shown when he ordered Tony to steal Fort Staunton's re-development plans made by Avery.

Appearance
He appears with a suit in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. He was more flamboyant in those games than in Grand Theft Auto III, in which he got an older and sterner look.

Villainous Acts

 * In order to win the elections, he orders Toni Cipriani to murder several of his opponents and their supporters.
 * He orders killing his mentor Avery Carrington as well as reporter Ned Burner. He also asks Toni to deliver their bodies to him for his "morgue parties".
 * In one scene he is seen eating a human torso. He also humorously told Toni that it has a good taste and asks Toni if he wants a piece of flesh, but Toni, horrified, politely declined.
 * He orders Claude to murder the leader of the Yakuzas, so it will trigger a war between the Cartel and the Yakuzas.
 * However, Love's most important moment is when he has Toni plants two car bombs underneath Fort Staunton, thus destroying the entire district and killing thousands of individuals. This also explains the existence of the construction site in Grand Theft Auto III.

Trivia

 * Donald Love is one of the four Rockstar villains to be Pure Evil, the others being Avon Hertz, Leo Kasper and Lionel Starkweather.
 * Oddly enough, he never serves as an antagonist and is the only Rockstar's complete monster to have successfully escaped, while the others are the main antagonists of their respective settings, and all receive their commeuppance (while Avon is murdered by the GTA Online Protagonists, Starkweather is gutted by James Earl Cash and Kasper is destroyed within Daniel Lamb's mind).
 * Amongst the four, he is also the one with the highest body counts, being responsible for the deaths of thousands individuals (note that players can also kill hundreds of individuals, but these murders are not canon, while Fort Staunton's destruction is canonic).
 * This is unknown if in GTA Vice City Donald was as evil as he is in GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA III. This is possible, however, that he turned evil between 1986 and 1998.
 * In beta version of GTA Vice City he had bigger role than in the final version. This is unknown, however, if his true colors were supposed to be revealed.
 * Donald Love's true fate is unknown. He seemingly fled alongside the Old Oriental Man at the end of GTA III, but this was never confirmed.
 * He is one of the three GTA characters that are cannibals. The others are Curtis Stocker from GTA IV: TLaD and Trevor Philips from GTA V.