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“ | Johnny Klebitz: You're dumber than I thought. Brian Jeremy: (Brian mocking Johnny's voice) "You're dumber than I thought. You're dumber than I thought." (regular voice) I knew you'd say that, just knew you'd say that! |
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~ Brian arguing with Johnny. |
Brian Jeremy is one of the two secondary antagonists (along with Ray Boccino) of The Lost and Damned, the 2009 midquel of the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV.
He was voiced by Adrian Martinez.
Biography[]
Brian Jeremy was the 39-year old acting-Lieutenant of The Lost MC and was known to be extremely loyal to the gang's incarcerated leader, Billy Grey. He was displeased with the direction Johnny Klebitz was taking the gang in due to the truce with The Angels of Death. Brian constantly argued with Klebitz over Grey, and always defended Grey, even if he was making the wrong decisions. Johnny also constantly insulted him and criticised his combat skills, among other things.
Even before his betrayal, Johnny and Brian had a mutual hatred of each other. This can be seen as Johnny and Brian often argue during Billy's missions, and if the mission Buyer's Market is failed with Brian's death, Johnny will call Billy and say that he has "good and bad news", mentioning the "bad news is that they lost a brother" and the "good news is it was Brian". It is possible that they were close friends at some point, at least enough to ride to Los Santos together with Terry in 2004.
Brian, Johnny, Terry Thorpe, Clay Simons, Jason Michaels and Jim Fitzgerald were the six bikers who visited Grey to pick him up from rehab in the game's intro. He later appeared assisting the game in the missions Angels in America and It's War; in those cutscenes, he was seen quarrelling with Johnny. Brian also backed up Billy and the gang during Billy's mass raid on the Angels of Death Clubhouse, and likely agreed with his decision to steal and keep the heroin, despite Johnny's claim that this would provoke a war between the Heroin's original owners (the Triads) and the AoD, Brian then physically took possession of the heroin, and then gave it to Johnny during an unsuccessful drug deal; however, despite having backup, the deal failed.
In the mission Chinese Takeout, Billy Grey was seen organizing a betrayal plot against Klebitz and Fitzgerald. Billy and Brian would stand outside the Triads' building and allow Johnny and Jim to walk into the building, and let the Triads take their Heroin and kill Johnny and Jim. However Johnny and Jim escaped while Billy was arrested by the police. Brian's attitude and words after his arrest implied that he was unaware of Billy's actions, thus leaving him convinced that Johnny betrayed him.
“ | F**kin' Johnny the rat. | „ |
~ Brian Jeremy insulting Johnny. |
Following Billy's imprisonment, Brian led his own breakaway faction from The Lost MC. When he and his faction were confronted by Johnny's faction in End of Chapter, Brian revealed his traitorous nature — convinced that Billy's arrest was Johnny's fault, he ordered his faction to attack Johnny, Jim, Terry and Clay.
Ray Boccino, who The Lost had met before, was allied with Jeremy. However, as the war between the factions was disrupting Boccino's business arrangements, he betrayed Jeremy in Bad Standing and exposed his location to Johnny, who went and confronted Brian at his house. Johnny can either kill him here, or spare him and then later kill him after he betrayed him a second time in a random encounter. If the player chooses to kill him during the Bad Standing via execution, Brian will start pleading for his life, but Johnny angrily tells Brian to "take it like a man" and shoots him in the chest. When dying, Brian will faintly utter "Fuck you!" to Johnny.
After Brian's death, his picture appears on the memorial wall in The Lost MC Clubhouse, but the glass is cracked, due to his betrayal.
Appearance[]
Brian is a Caucasian male of 39 years old, who is bald and wears black glasses. He usually wears the standard Lost MC tenue.
Personality[]
“ | Here comes Tweedle Dum and Tweedle f***ing Dumber. | „ |
~ Brian, before betraying The Lost MC. |
At first, Brian Jeremy appears to be an enthusiastic and energetic biker for the Lost MC, given that early missions can often include him chanting the club name, as well as insults directed towards the Angels of Death. The most notable trait about him is that he is incredibly loyal to Billy Gray, the leader of the gang, despite Billy's verbal abuse towards him, supporting him in every decision he makes no matter how damaging it may be to the gang. He also serves as a stone in the protagonist Johnny Klebitz's shoe, constantly berating him for not following Billy in every decision he makes, jeering him while riding together, and even betraying him mid-game when Brian (foolishly) believes that Johnny had betrayed Billy despite that it was very clear that it was Billy who had betrayed Johnny, and starts a civil war in the club with the sole purpose of killing Johnny and thus "avenging" Billy. Both Brian and Billy Grey were arrested for murder in 1989, hinting that they may have been working together to commit the murder. This could explain Brian's fierce loyalty to Billy.
Despite these traits, and although it is inferred early on by other members' mocking of him, as the storyline goes on, Brian’s enthusiasm proves to be nothing but a façade as he is revealed to be simply a total immature coward at heart, as he rarely (if ever) participates in any shooting with the gang, and begins to beg for his life when Johnny has him at gunpoint. This cowardice does not even spare Billy, given he tries blaming Billy to save his life. Even if Johnny forgives him, Brian foolishly betrays him and tries to kill him one last time, which ends up costing him his life. Despite this pathetic cowardice, it can be inferred that Brian is charismatic, given he manages to get a large portion of the Lost MC to join his splinter faction in a short amount of time.
Brian, like Billy, holds racist views, as he uses a derogatory term when describing the heroin deal with the Triads. He also holds anti-Semitic views, as proven when he specifically points out Johnny's Jewish heritage when insulting him.