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|fullname = Donald Love |
|fullname = Donald Love |
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+ | |alias = Don<br> |
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|origin = ''Grand Theft Auto III'' |
|origin = ''Grand Theft Auto III'' |
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|occupation = Businessman<br> |
|occupation = Businessman<br> |
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+ | Founder & CEO of Love Media<br> |
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Associate of the Leone's crime syndicate <small>(formerly)</small><br> |
Associate of the Leone's crime syndicate <small>(formerly)</small><br> |
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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> |
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High intelligence<br> |
High intelligence<br> |
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+ | Manipulation<br> |
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− | Master manipulator<br> |
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− | + | Mafia connections<br> |
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+ | Escape art<br> |
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− | Alliance with the mob<br> |
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+ | Incredible influence |
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− | Deception<br> |
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− | Evasion<br> |
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− | Henchmen |
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|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> |
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Playing with the corpses of his enemies.<br> |
Playing with the corpses of his enemies.<br> |
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Scheming. |
Scheming. |
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− | |goals = Start a successful company <small>(succeeded)</small>.<br> |
+ | |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> |
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− | Kill his former mentor Avery Carrington and stealing his re-development plans for Fort Staunton |
+ | Kill his former mentor Avery Carrington and stealing his re-development plans for Fort Staunton.<br> |
+ | Earn billions of dollars by destroying Fort Staunton and using the redevelopment plans to earn even more money.<br> |
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− | 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> |
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+ | Find a way back to normality after crossing a few boundaries <small>(unknown if failed or succeeded)</small>.}} |
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− | Ordering murders<br> |
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Terrorism<br> |
Terrorism<br> |
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Cannibalism<br> |
Cannibalism<br> |
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− | Necrophilia <small>( |
+ | Necrophilia <small>(allegedly)</small><br> |
+ | Mass murder<br> |
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− | Destruction of a neighboorhood <small>(over a thousand victims)</small> |
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+ | Stealing contracting plans worth billions |
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− | |type of villain = |
+ | |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.}} |
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− | '''Donald Love''' is a character in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' |
+ | '''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. |
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− | He is depicted as a wealthy media mogul with macabre hobbies. |
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+ | ==History== |
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− | 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. |
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⚫ | 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. |
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− | ==Synopsis== |
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==Personality== |
==Personality== |
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− | Donald Love has painted himself as an |
+ | 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. |
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− | Donald is a cannibal, which |
+ | 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 |
+ | 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== |
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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. |
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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. |
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*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. |
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*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". |
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*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. |
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− | *He orders Claude to murder the leader of the |
+ | *He orders Claude to murder the leader of the Yakuza, so it will trigger a war between the Cartel and the Yakuza. |
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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. |
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==Gallery== |
==Gallery== |
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+ | ===Images=== |
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− | <gallery widths="300" |
+ | <gallery widths="300" bordercolor="#784b84" captiontextcolor="#2e8b57" position="center"> |
− | 424350d3e9ac694dca2e3ae44909d05bf37ebf9b_hq.jpg|Donald in |
+ | 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). |
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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?" |
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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. |
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− | Donald_Love_LCS_PSP.png|Donald meditating in "Love on the Run". |
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DL_bankrupt.png|Donald Love with beard and bankrupted. |
DL_bankrupt.png|Donald Love with beard and bankrupted. |
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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. |
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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). |
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− | LibertyTree-GTA4-DonaldLove.jpg|Liberty Tree newspapers with Love's face seen in GTA IV. |
+ | 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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+ | </gallery> |
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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 |
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</gallery> |
</gallery> |
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==Trivia== |
==Trivia== |
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⚫ | *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. |
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− | *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. |
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− | **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. |
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− | **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. |
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− | **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. |
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− | **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. |
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− | *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.