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|image = Donald Love LCS PSP.png
 
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|fullname = Donald Love
 
|fullname = Donald Love
|alias = Donald<br>
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|alias = Don<br>
Don<br>
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D<br>
DL<br>
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DL
 
|origin = ''Grand Theft Auto III''
 
|origin = ''Grand Theft Auto III''
 
|occupation = Businessman<br>
 
|occupation = Businessman<br>
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Founder & CEO of Love Media<br>
 
Associate of the Leone's crime syndicate <small>(formerly)</small><br>
 
Associate of the Leone's crime syndicate <small>(formerly)</small><br>
 
Associate and boss of Toni Cipriani <small>(formerly)</small><br>
 
Associate and boss of Toni Cipriani <small>(formerly)</small><br>
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|skills = Considerable wealth<br>
 
|skills = Considerable wealth<br>
 
High intelligence<br>
 
High intelligence<br>
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Manipulation<br>
Master manipulator<br>
 
Vast connections within the criminal underworld's<br>
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Mafia connections<br>
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Escape art<br>
Alliance with the mob<br>
 
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Incredible influence
Deception<br>
 
Evasion<br>
 
Henchmen
 
 
|hobby = Following his mentor with a note pad and pen <small>(formerly)</small>.<br>
 
|hobby = Following his mentor with a note pad and pen <small>(formerly)</small>.<br>
 
Playing with the corpses of his enemies.<br>
 
Playing with the corpses of his enemies.<br>
 
Scheming.
 
Scheming.
|goals = Start a successful company <small>(succeeded)</small>.<br>
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|goals = {{Scroll box|Start a successful company <small>(succeeded)</small>.<br>
 
Be elected mayor of Liberty City, using intimidation and terrorism <small>(failed)</small>.<br>
 
Be elected mayor of Liberty City, using intimidation and terrorism <small>(failed)</small>.<br>
Kill his former mentor Avery Carrington and stealing his re-development plans for Fort Staunton <small>(succeeded)</small>.<br>
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Kill his former mentor Avery Carrington and stealing his re-development plans for Fort Staunton.<br>
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Earn billions of dollars by destroying Fort Staunton and using the redevelopment plans to earn even more money.<br>
Destroy Fort Staunton <small>(succeeded)</small>.
 
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Hire [[Claude (Grand Theft Auto)|Claude]] to save his friend, the oriental gentlemen <small>(all succeeded)</small>.<br>
|crimes = Rigging the elections<br>
 
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Find a way back to normality after crossing a few boundaries <small>(unknown if failed or succeeded)</small>.}}
Ordering murders<br>
 
 
|crimes = Electoral fraud<br>
 
Terrorism<br>
 
Terrorism<br>
 
Cannibalism<br>
 
Cannibalism<br>
Necrophilia <small>(implied)</small><br>
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Necrophilia <small>(allegedly)</small><br>
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Mass murder<br>
Destruction of a neighboorhood <small>(over a thousand victims)</small>
 
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Stealing contracting plans worth billions
|type of villain = Egotistical Crime Lord}}
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|type of villain = Opportunistic Crime Lord}}
 
{{Quote|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.}}
 
{{Quote|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 tritagonist in ''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'' and the anti-hero character of ''GTA III''; he is also a minor character in ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''.
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'''Donald Love''' is a character in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' video game series. He serves as the tritagonist in ''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'' and a main character in ''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.
   
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In ''GTA III'', he was voiced by Kyle MacLachlan, who also played [[Cliff Vandercave]] and [[King Claudius]]. In ''Vice City'', he was voiced by Cam Neely. In ''Liberty City Stories'', he was voiced by Will Janowitz.
He is depicted as a wealthy media mogul with macabre hobbies.
 
   
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==History==
In ''GTA III'', he was voiced by {{w|Kyle MacLachlan}}, who also portrayed [[Cliff Vandercave]] in the 1994 live-action movie ''The Flintstones''.
 
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Love is a wealthy tycoon real estate who was the protégé of another entrepreneur with ruthless methods named Avery Carrington (who was [[Tommy Vercetti]]'s partner in ''Vice City''). Love eventually moved to Liberty City in 1998 where he built relationships with mobsters [[Toni Cipriani]] and [[Salvatore Leone]] in order to win the elections.
   
 
He lost not only the elections but his wealth as well. Bankrupted, he has Toni Cipriani kill his former mentor Avery and steal his re-development plans for Fort Staunton. Then, he has Fort Staunton destroyed, and used this opportunity to make even more money than before. He severed his ties with the Leone and later hires [[Claude (Grand Theft Auto)|Claude]] to kill the Yakuza's leader in a Cartel car, thus provoking a gang war between the Yakuza and the Cartel. Donald Love eventually disappears and is not to be seen again in later GTA's games.
==Synopsis==
 
Love is a wealthy tycoon real estate who was the protégé of another entrepreneur with rutless methods named Avery Carrington (who was [[Tommy Vercetti]]'s partner in ''Vice City''). Love eventually moved to Liberty City in 1998 where he built relationships with mobster [[Toni Cipriani]] and [[Salvatore Leone]] in order to win the elections. He lost not only the elections but his wealth as well. Bankrupted, he has Toni Cipriani kill his former mentor Avery and steal his re-development plans for Fort Staunton. Then, he has Fort Staunton's destroyed, and used this opportunity to make even more money than before. He severed his ties with the Leone and later hires [[Claude (Grand Theft Auto)|Claude]] to kill the Yakuza's leader in a Cartal car, thus provocating a gang war between the Yakuza and the Cartel. Donald Love eventually disappears and is not to be seen again in later GTA's games.
 
   
 
==Personality==
 
==Personality==
Donald Love has painted himself as an energic, charismatic, wealthy bachelor, but his true personality is hidden to all but his closest associates.
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Donald Love has painted himself as an energetic, charismatic, wealthy bachelor, but his true personality is hidden to all but his closest associates.
   
 
While appearing well-mannered towards the protagonists and 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''. He is rather optimistic, but sometimes loses his cool and even berates [[Toni Cipriani]] for his failures, especially when he was nearly ruined.
 
While appearing well-mannered towards the protagonists and 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''. 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.
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Donald is a [[:Category:Cannibals|cannibal]], which disgusts Toni. 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" (though Love's dialogue suggests that Avery wasn't above doing the same to him should the opportunity to profit from it ever came up when he stated that even Avery would be proud of his attempt at his life). 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 no boundaries and is willing to do everything in his quest of fortune. An opportunistic sadist, he happily orders the annihilation of Fort Stauton without a second thought (obviously knowing it would end hundreds and hundreds of innocent lives), and orders his associates to bring corpses for his "morgue parties", during which he presumably rapes them.
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Love has no boundaries and is willing to do everything in his quest of fortune. An opportunistic sadist, he happily orders the annihilation of Fort Staunton without a second thought (obviously knowing it would end hundreds and hundreds of innocent lives), and orders his associates to bring corpses for his "morgue parties", during which he presumably rapes them aside from eating them.
   
 
==Appearance==
 
==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.
 
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==
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==Crimes==
 
*In order to win the elections, he orders Toni Cipriani to murder several of his opponents and their supporters.
 
*In order to win the elections, he orders Toni Cipriani to murder several of his opponents and their supporters.
 
*He also has Toni destroys evidences of his links with the Leone Family.
 
*He also has Toni destroys evidences of his links with the Leone Family.
 
*He orders to kill his mentor Avery Carrington as well as the corrupt reporter [[Ned Burner]]. He also asks Toni to deliver their bodies to him for his "morgue parties".
 
*He orders to kill his mentor Avery Carrington as well as the corrupt 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.
 
*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.
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*He orders Claude to murder the leader of the Yakuza, so it will trigger a war between the Cartel and the Yakuza.
*However, Love's most important moment is when he has Toni plants two car bombs underneath Fort Staunton, a Forelli strong hold, in order to both kill Franco Forelli, as revenge for his previous attempt on his life, and to increase his wealth, thus destroying the ''entire district'' and presumably killing thousands of individuals. This also explains the existence of the construction site in ''Grand Theft Auto III''.
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*Love's most heinous crime is orchestrating the bombing of the the heavily populated Fort Staunton (which is also a Forelli strong hold), and then use the stolen intellectual property of Avery Carrington to head the redevelopment and real estate projects of the neighborhood, earning billions of dollars in the process. This act (committed by Toni under heavy pressure by Love) has probably taken the lives of ''thousands'' innocent people, even thought the true amount of victims is never revealed. This also explains the existence of the construction site in ''Grand Theft Auto III''.
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Probably, Donald Love is one of the characters in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series that has committed the worst atrocities, especially with the destruction of Fort Staunton. Oddly enough, he never serves as an antagonist in both ''GTA III'' and ''GTA: LCS'', and had escaped without any punishment and without getting killed either. This may explain why Love was so successful, since he would have been easily killed if he was at any point against the protagonist.
   
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
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===Images===
<gallery widths="300" captiontextcolor="#2e8b57" bordercolor="#784b84" position="center">
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<gallery widths="300" bordercolor="#784b84" captiontextcolor="#2e8b57" position="center">
424350d3e9ac694dca2e3ae44909d05bf37ebf9b_hq.jpg|Donald in ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'' (set in 1986).
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424350d3e9ac694dca2e3ae44909d05bf37ebf9b_hq.jpg|Donald in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (set in 1986).
 
DonaldLove-GTALCS.png|Donald in ''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'' (set in 1998).
 
DonaldLove-GTALCS.png|Donald in ''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'' (set in 1998).
 
DonaldLove-GTAIII.jpg|Donald in ''Grand Theft Auto III'' (set in 2001).
 
DonaldLove-GTAIII.jpg|Donald in ''Grand Theft Auto III'' (set in 2001).
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Screenshot 2018-03-22 at 2.55.54 PM.png|"You want some?"
 
Screenshot 2018-03-22 at 2.55.54 PM.png|"You want some?"
 
Love_and_tommy.png|Donald Love, Avery and Tommy during Two Bit Hit.
 
Love_and_tommy.png|Donald Love, Avery and Tommy during Two Bit Hit.
Donald_Love_LCS_PSP.png|Donald meditating in "Love on the Run".
 
 
DL_bankrupt.png|Donald Love with beard and bankrupted.
 
DL_bankrupt.png|Donald Love with beard and bankrupted.
 
DonaldLove.jpg|Donald Love from Love Media promotional website.
 
DonaldLove.jpg|Donald Love from Love Media promotional website.
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Love_Media_Rooftop-GTA3.png|The building's rooftop.
 
Love_Media_Rooftop-GTA3.png|The building's rooftop.
 
LvMdiaAd_GTAA.png|Love Media's ad with Donald's image on it (Staunton Island).
 
LvMdiaAd_GTAA.png|Love Media's ad with Donald's image on it (Staunton Island).
LibertyTree-GTA4-DonaldLove.jpg|Liberty Tree newspapers with Love's face seen in GTA IV.
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LibertyTree-GTA4-DonaldLove.jpg|Liberty Tree newspapers with Love's face seen in ''GTA IV''.
 
Donaldlove-StarVinewood-GTAV.jpg|Love's star on the Vinewood Walk of Fame in ''Grand Theft Auto V''.
 
Donaldlove-StarVinewood-GTAV.jpg|Love's star on the Vinewood Walk of Fame in ''Grand Theft Auto V''.
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Gta3_love_1024.jpg|Donald's promotional photo for Grand Theft Auto III.
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OieGTA3DonaldLove.png|A render of Donald Love.
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DonaldLove-GTAIII-BETA.jpg|An official GTA III wallpaper showing an early version of Donald Love's model.
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===Videos===
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<gallery widths="300" bordercolor="#784b84" captiontextcolor="#2e8b57" position="center">
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GTA Liberty City Stories - Walkthrough - Mission 38 - Cam-Pain
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GTA 3 Donald Love's Unexplained Disappearance
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DONALD LOVE IN GTA IV
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
 
*His name, the fact that he owns multiple companies and he wants to be mayor suggests that he is a parody of real-life retail tycoon, billionaire and current United States president [[Wikipedia:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]]. The fact that Love lost the mayoral election mirrors Trump's unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign, years before he successfully ran for the presidency in 2016.
*Donald Love is one of the eight [[:Category:GTA Villains|Rockstar villains]] to be [[:Category:Pure Evil|Pure Evil]], the others being [[Nicole Horne]], [[Victor Branco]], [[Agustin Allende]], [[Harlen J. Fontaine]], [[Avon Hertz]], [[Leo Kasper]] and [[Lionel Starkweather]].
 
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*''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'' is the only game where he never does anything evil, considering that his appearance in such game was just a nonspeaking cameo, though he was originally intended to play a larger role.
**Strangely 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. Allende is shot by John Marston and Abraham Reyes, Horne is killed by Max Payne, Victor Branco is crippled and arrested by Max Payne before dying in prison, Fontaine is strangled to death by his patient Ira Hogeboom).
 
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*There's a rumor that in the beta version of ''GTA III'' there was originally a mission entitled "Love Hurts" given by [[Darkel]] in which Claude had to crash an airplane on the Headquarters of Love Media, killing Love in the process. It's said that such mission was removed from the game after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on World Trade Center took place. Rockstar, however, has dismissed this rumor as untrue.
**Amongst the eight, he is also has one of the highest body counts, along with Horne and Allende, 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 canonical).
 
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*While what happens with Donald Love following the events of ''GTA III'' is unknown, Rockstar Games confirmed in 2009 that Love actually left Liberty City to find a way back to normality after acknowledging that he had crossed a few boundaries (possibly his cannibalism and alleged necrophilia), yet it cannot be speculated whether Love actually succeeded on his mission nor what happened with the Old Oriental Man too as he had made no further appearances in future ''Grand Theft Auto'' games.
**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.
 
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*He and [[Avon Hertz]] are arguably the two worst villains in the series. While Avon is indeed killed by the [[GTA Online Protagonists]], Donald Love had escaped without the protagonists (namely both [[Claude (Grand Theft Auto)|Claude]] and [[Toni Cipriani]]) or the authorities ever finding out, thus making him the ''only'' villain to have succeeded with no punishment given and without being killed.
**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.
 
*His name, the fact that he owns multiple companies and he wants to be mayor suggests that he is a parody of real-life retail tycoon, billionaire and United States president {{w|Donald Trump}}.
 
*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 [[:Category:Cannibals|cannibals]]. The others are Curtis Stocker from ''GTA IV: TLaD'' and [[Trevor Philips]] from ''GTA V''.
 
   
 
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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 video game series. He serves as the tritagonist in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and a main character in 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 played Cliff Vandercave and King Claudius. In Vice City, he was voiced by Cam Neely. In Liberty City Stories, he was voiced by Will Janowitz.

History

Love is a wealthy tycoon real estate who was the protégé of another entrepreneur with ruthless methods named Avery Carrington (who was Tommy Vercetti's partner in Vice City). Love eventually moved to Liberty City in 1998 where he built relationships with mobsters Toni Cipriani and Salvatore Leone in order to win the elections.

He lost not only the elections but his wealth as well. Bankrupted, he has Toni Cipriani kill his former mentor Avery and steal his re-development plans for Fort Staunton. Then, he has Fort Staunton destroyed, and used this opportunity to make even more money than before. He severed his ties with the Leone and later hires Claude to kill the Yakuza's leader in a Cartel car, thus provoking a gang war between the Yakuza and the Cartel. Donald Love eventually disappears and is not to be seen again in later GTA's games.

Personality

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

While appearing well-mannered towards the protagonists and 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. 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 disgusts Toni. 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" (though Love's dialogue suggests that Avery wasn't above doing the same to him should the opportunity to profit from it ever came up when he stated that even Avery would be proud of his attempt at his life). 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 no boundaries and is willing to do everything in his quest of fortune. An opportunistic sadist, he happily orders the annihilation of Fort Staunton without a second thought (obviously knowing it would end hundreds and hundreds of innocent lives), and orders his associates to bring corpses for his "morgue parties", during which he presumably rapes them aside from eating them.

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.

Crimes

  • In order to win the elections, he orders Toni Cipriani to murder several of his opponents and their supporters.
  • He also has Toni destroys evidences of his links with the Leone Family.
  • He orders to kill his mentor Avery Carrington as well as the corrupt 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 Yakuza, so it will trigger a war between the Cartel and the Yakuza.
  • Love's most heinous crime is orchestrating the bombing of the the heavily populated Fort Staunton (which is also a Forelli strong hold), and then use the stolen intellectual property of Avery Carrington to head the redevelopment and real estate projects of the neighborhood, earning billions of dollars in the process. This act (committed by Toni under heavy pressure by Love) has probably taken the lives of thousands innocent people, even thought the true amount of victims is never revealed. This also explains the existence of the construction site in Grand Theft Auto III.

Probably, Donald Love is one of the characters in the Grand Theft Auto series that has committed the worst atrocities, especially with the destruction of Fort Staunton. Oddly enough, he never serves as an antagonist in both GTA III and GTA: LCS, and had escaped without any punishment and without getting killed either. This may explain why Love was so successful, since he would have been easily killed if he was at any point against the protagonist.

Gallery

Images

Videos

Trivia

  • His name, the fact that he owns multiple companies and he wants to be mayor suggests that he is a parody of real-life retail tycoon, billionaire and current United States president Donald Trump. The fact that Love lost the mayoral election mirrors Trump's unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign, years before he successfully ran for the presidency in 2016.
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the only game where he never does anything evil, considering that his appearance in such game was just a nonspeaking cameo, though he was originally intended to play a larger role.
  • There's a rumor that in the beta version of GTA III there was originally a mission entitled "Love Hurts" given by Darkel in which Claude had to crash an airplane on the Headquarters of Love Media, killing Love in the process. It's said that such mission was removed from the game after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on World Trade Center took place. Rockstar, however, has dismissed this rumor as untrue.
  • While what happens with Donald Love following the events of GTA III is unknown, Rockstar Games confirmed in 2009 that Love actually left Liberty City to find a way back to normality after acknowledging that he had crossed a few boundaries (possibly his cannibalism and alleged necrophilia), yet it cannot be speculated whether Love actually succeeded on his mission nor what happened with the Old Oriental Man too as he had made no further appearances in future Grand Theft Auto games.
  • He and Avon Hertz are arguably the two worst villains in the series. While Avon is indeed killed by the GTA Online Protagonists, Donald Love had escaped without the protagonists (namely both Claude and Toni Cipriani) or the authorities ever finding out, thus making him the only villain to have succeeded with no punishment given and without being killed.

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Grand Theft Auto
The Protagonists | Samuel Deever | The Police | Robert "Bubby" Seragliano | Uncle Fu | El Burro | Brother Marcus | Dumb Kurt | Chu Ying | No Chin | Wun Tun Chun | Bryson | "Bald Man" Sonetti

Grand Theft Auto London
GTA London Protagonists | Albert & Archie Crisp | Harold Cartwright | Jack Parkinson | Hans Nemesis

Grand Theft Auto 2
Claude Speed | Billy Bob Bean | Dr. LaBrat | Jerkov | Sunbeam | Hiroshi | Refried Noodle | Johnny Zoo | Red Valdez | Trey Welsh | Elmo | Uno Carb | Chesti-Kov | Yonsi Zoo San | Johnny Rotten | Tetsuo

Grand Theft Auto III
Claude | Catalina | Salvatore Leone | Miguel | El Burro | Joey Leone | Maria Latore | Donald Love | Ray Machowski | Luigi Goterelli | Mickey Hamfists | Leon McAffrey | Carl | Asuka Kasen | 8-Ball | King Courtney | Toni Cipriani | Marty Chonks | Phil Cassidy | Lee Chong | Curly Bob | Kenji Kasen | Mike Forelli | D-Ice | Mrs. Cipriani | Lazlow Jones | Fernando Martinez

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Tommy Vercetti | Sonny Forelli | Lance Vance | Ricardo Diaz | Ken Rosenberg | Phil Cassidy | Auntie Poulet | Umberto Robina | Juan Cortez | Alex Shrub | Mitch Baker | Jack Howitzer | Avery Carrington | Earnest Kelly | Gonzalez | Leo Teal | The Psycho | Hilary King | Cam Jones | Donald Love | Victor Vance | Maude Hanson | Mr. Black | Lazlow Jones | Fernando Martinez

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Carl Johnson | Frank Tenpenny | Big Smoke | Ryder | Eddie Pulaski | Sweet Johnson | Cesar Vialpando | The Truth | Ken Rosenberg | Mike Toreno | Wu Zi Mu | Zero | Jizzy B. | T-Bone Mendez | Catalina | OG Loc | Johnny Sindacco | Salvatore Leone | B Dup | Marco Forelli | Claude | Snakehead | Berkley | Ballas | Lazlow Jones | Jack Howitzer | Fernando Martinez | Joey Leone | Tommy Vercetti

Grand Theft Auto Advance
Mike | Vinnie | Colombian Cartel Lieutenant | King Courtney | Asuka Kasen | 8-Ball

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Toni Cipriani | Massimo Torini | Paulie Sindacco | Vincenzo Cilli | Salvatore Leone | Leon McAffrey | Donald Love | Toshiko Kasen | JD O'Toole | Ned Burner | Phil Cassidy | Kazuki Kasen | Jane Hopper | Mickey Hamfists | Franco Forelli | Roger C. Hole | Cedric Fotheringay | Uncle Leone | Mrs. Cipriani | Lazlow Jones | Jack Howitzer | Fernando Martinez

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Victor Vance | Jerry Martinez | Diego & Armando Mendez | Marty Jay Williams | Lance Vance | Ricardo Diaz | Phil Cassidy | Bryan Forbes | Lazlow Jones | Jack Howitzer | Fernando Martinez

Grand Theft Auto IV
Niko Bellic | Dimitri Rascalov | Jimmy Pegorino | Darko Brevic | Vlad Glebov | Ray Bulgarin | Brucie Kibbutz | Karen Daniels | Manny Escuela | Tom Rivas | Mikhail Faustin | Ray Boccino | Little Jacob | Real Badman | Elizabeta Torres | Packie McReary | Derrick McReary | Francis McReary | Gerald McReary | Playboy X | Dwayne Forge | Johnny Klebitz | Luis Lopez | Roman Bellic's Kidnapper | Clarence Little | Dardan Petrela | Lyle Rivas | Judge Grady | Jim Fitzgerald | Johnny Barbosa | Phil Bell | Joseph DiLeo | Luca Silvestri | The Cook | Tony Prince | Teddy Benavidez | Eddie Low | The Fixer | Jon Gravelli | Michael Keane | Gordon Sargent | Wedding Assassin | Trunchez Brothers | Jeff Harlingford | Adam Dimayev | Eduard Borodin | Isaac Roth | Mori Green | United Liberty Paper Contact | Aiden O'Malley | Bucky Sligo | Kiki Jenkins | Jason Michaels | Frankie Gallo | Frank Garone | Kenny Petrovic | Lenny Petrovic | Mr. McReary | Fernando Martinez | Maxwell Caughlin | Scott Guzowski | Antonio Rivette | Rodrigo Stavnes | Fernando Tisdel | Tyler Pickrel | Preston Pecinovsky | Alonso Goralski | Bert Reker | Freddy Paparo | Ivan Bytchkov | Anthony Corrado | Kim Young-Guk | Shon Kikuchi | Jimmy Kand | Simon Nashly | Tommy Francovic | Barry Lamora | Lino Friddell | Juan Haimo | Darren Covey | Leo Brodell | Christov Mahonvic | Marty Boldenow | Noel Katsuda | Rodney McEniry | Glenn Lushbaugh | Phil Bacerra | Sergi Szerbin | Danny Hatmaker | Mervin Eskuchen | Frederick Harrison | Chan Jaoming | Hsin Jaoming | Keenan Burdett | Gracie Ancelotti | Giovanni Ancelotti | Lazlow Jones | Jack Howitzer

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned
The Lost MC
Johnny Klebitz | Billy Grey | Brian Jeremy | Jim Fitzgerald | Terry Thorpe | Clay Simons | Angus Martin | Jason Michaels

Other
Malc | Ray Boccino | James "Jimmy" Matthews | Ed McCornish | Thomas Stubbs | Elizabeta Torres | Playboy X | Niko Bellic | Luis Lopez | Tony Prince | Dimitri Rascalov | Roman's Kidnapper | Ray's Goon | Lester Arnold | Lazlow Jones | Fernando Martinez

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Luis Lopez | Ray Bulgarin | Tony Prince | Rocco Pelosi | Timur | Vince Pelosi | Yusuf Amir | Mori Kibbutz | Giovanni Ancelotti | Gracie Ancelotti | Niko Bellic | Johnny Klebitz | Brucie Kibbutz | Vic Manzano | Margot | Marki Ashvilli | Billy Grey | Dimitri Rascalov | Union Official | Ahmed Khaleel | Tahir Saeed | Evan Moss | Lazlow Jones | Phil Bell | Fernando Martinez

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Huang Lee | Wu Lee | Zhou Ming | Chan Jaoming | Rudy D'Avanzo | Hsin Jaoming | Mini Gun Wonsu Assassin | Lester Arnold

Grand Theft Auto V
Protagonists
Michael De Santa | Trevor Philips | Franklin Clinton | Lester Crest | Lamar Davis | Dave Norton | Ron Jakowski | Jimmy De Santa | Wade Hebert

Antagonists
Devin Weston | Steve Haines | Wei Cheng | Stretch | Molly Schultz | Don Percival | Martin Madrazo | Simeon Yetarian | Andreas Sanchez | Rocco Pelosi | Clay Simons | Terry Thorpe | Dr. Isiah Friedlander | Kyle Chavis | Fabien LaRouche | D | Elwood O'Neil | Ortega | Enzo Bonelli | United Liberty Paper Contact | Ballas | Gianni | Johnny Klebitz | Tracker | Brett Lowrey | Jay Norris

Heist Crew Members
Chef | Christian Feltz | Daryl Johns | Eddie Toh | Gustavo Mota | Hugh Welsh | Karim Detz | Karl Abolaji | Norm Richards | Paige Harris | Patrick McReary | Rickie Lukens | Taliana Martinez

Strangers and Freaks/Random Events
Nigel & Mrs. Thornhill | Ursula | Alonzo | Derrick | Cris Formage | Peter Dreyfuss | Joe and Josef | Beverly Felton | Lost Fugitive | Abigail Mathers | Josh Bernstein | Curtis Weaver | Glenn Scoville | Larry Tupper | Ralph Ostrowski

Other
Brad Snider | Lazlow Jones | Tao Cheng | Jock Cranley | Debra | Merle Abrahams | Brucie Kibbutz | Jack Howitzer | Fernando Martinez

Grand Theft Auto Online
Protagonist
GTA Online Protagonists

Main Characters/Bosses
Lester Crest | Lamar Davis | Gerald | Simeon Yetarian| Lester Crest | Trevor Philips | Ron Jakowski | Martin Madrazo | Agent 14 | Karen Daniels | Malc | United Liberty Paper Contact | Tony Prince | Tao Cheng | Georgina Cheng | Brucie Kibbutz | Miguel Madrazo | Franklin Clinton | Chef | Dax | Labrat | Luchadora | Yusuf Amir | Jamal Amir |

Heist Crew Members
Patrick McReary | Eddie Toh | Zach Nelson | Karim Denz | Gustavo Mota | Karl Abolaji | Paige Harris | Rickie Lukens | Taliana Martinez | Chester McCoy | Charlie Reed | Avi Schwartzman | Christian Feltz | Yohan Blair

Duggan Crime Family
Avery Duggan | Thornton Duggan | Mason Duggan

Other Antagonists
Avon Hertz | Cliffford | The Boss | Juan Strickler | Johnny Guns | Steve Haines | P | North Side Vagos Leader | Dr. Isiah Friedlander

Other Characters
Claude | Niko Bellic | John Marston | Bogdan | Los Santos Slasher | Jimmy De Santa | Lazlow Jones | Cris Formage | Steve Haines | Johnny Klebitz | Jack Howitzer | Fernando Martinez | Michael De Santa | Jock Cranley

Organizations
Gangs and Cartels
Albanian Mob | Angels of Death Motorcycle Club | Los Diablos | Uptown Yardies | Yakuza | The Yardies | Ballas | Cholos | Colombian Cartel | Cubans | Da Nang Boys | Diaz's Gang | The Families (GTA V) (Grove Street Families, Seville Boulevard Families) | Fooliganz | Hare Krishna | Haitians | Hustlers | Loonies | Los Santos Vagos | The Lost MC | Luca's Crew | Madrazo Cartel | Mendez Cartel | Marabunta Grande | Northwood Dominican Drug Dealers | O'Neil Brothers | Rednecks | San Fierro Rifa | Skinheads | Southside Hoods | Street Sharks | Varrios Los Aztecas (GTA V) | Vice City Bikers | Vance Crime Family | Trailer Park Mafia | Trevor Philips Enterprises | Vercetti Gang | Costa Rican Gang | European Gang
Mafias
The Commission (Gambetti Family, Pavano Family, Messina Family, Lupisella Family, Ancelotti Family) | Armenian Mob | Bulgarin Family | Duggan Crime Family | Faustin-Rascalov Family | Forelli Family | Sindacco Family | Pegorino Family | Petrovic Mafiya | Trunchez Brothers | Jewish Mob | McReary Crime Family | Kkangpae | Korean Mob | Leone Family | Russian Mafia (Russian Mafia (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)) | Sicilian Mafia | Vance Crime Family
Triads
Liberty City Triads | Los Santos Triads
The Law
Police | C.R.A.S.H. | Liberty City Police Department | Los Santos Police Department | North Yankton State Patrol | Vice City Police Department | National Office of Security Enforcement | Drug Observation Agency | Federal Investigation Bureau | International Affairs Agency
Cults
Altruist Cult | Epsilon Program
Other
Civil Border Patrol | Cliffford Mercenaries | Crack Dealers | Devin Weston Holdings | Counterfeit Syndicate | Liquor Store Bandits | Loco Syndicate | Merryweather Security | SRS | Survivalists | The Professionals | Republican Space Rangers | Zaibatsu Corporation | Zombotech Corporation

See Also
Bully Villains | Manhunt Villains | Max Payne Villains | Red Dead Villains | LA Noire Villains