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| “ | Irie this! Get your libby self over to Bedford Point, there's a stash in an old jalopy I need, quick smart now. | „ |
| ~ King Courtney talking to Claude on a telephone and his last words before setting him up to get killed. |
| “ | Easy, Mon! Don't go spreading accusations at King Courtney when you don't know the deal. Yes, it was my men who went to the Bartender's pad to collect some money owed to me but they're no murderers! When they got there, they found the man dead and came back here. Rest easy, Mon! And tell me who you are? | „ |
| ~ King Courtney's first words to the main protagonist Mike in GTA: Advance. |
| “ | Mon, this is business, plain and simple. I help you, you help me, we help each other. Everybody's happy | „ |
| ~ King Courtney's conversation with Mike in GTA: Advance. |
| “ | King Courtney: Hey, Mon! You're doing me a great injustice. You come blazing in here without any reason? Mike: King, I'm not gonna listen to any of your lies. I know you've sent men to kill me. Now the tables are turned and you're going out in a body bag! King Courtney: You think me craven, Mon? No matter. I'm going to easy your stress for good!!! |
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| ~ Mike confronts King Courtney in their final showdown after sending goons to kill him. |
King Courtney (born in 1961) is an overarching antagonist of Grand Theft Auto III and one of the two main antagonists (alongside Vinnie) in Grand Theft Auto Advance.
In GTA III King Courtney was voiced by Walter Mudu, who also voiced D-Ice in the same game and Malc in Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.
Biography[]
Grand Theft Auto Advance[]
The game's events take place in 2000. King Courtney hires Mike: a freelance criminal searching for the person who killed his best friend, Vinnie. Mike and King Courtney meet in person. Courtney is accused as the person responsible for Jonnie's death, a person Mike worked with. Courtney denies the accusation. Instead, he proposes a compromise. Courtney will look for Jonnie's killer in exchange for Mike's services. Mike accepts the offer but he doesn't find more information about the killer's identity.
Frustrated, he confronts Courtney again. Courtney claims the killer is Cisco: the leader of the Colombian Cartel. Mike locates Cisco and prepares to kill him. Cisco's life is spared when he reveals that Courtney has been lying. Shocked by the revelation, Mike breaks his ties with the Yardies. He soon encounters one of Courtney's associates, Vinnie. He reveals himself as the person who killed Jonnie. He attempts to murder Mike but he is killed instead. Courtney is alerted and places a hit directly on Mike.
Several of his assassins are sent but all of them are killed. Mike attempts to invade a warehouse owned by the Yardies. Courtney is already there when Mike arrives. Courtney intends to personally kill Mike. They both engage in a duel. Courtney is forced to beg for his own life when Mike comes dangerously close to killing him. Courtney is spared right before the police arrive. As such, Mike leaves him to his fate as he proceeds to head to the airport and board Cisco's plane to Colombia. King Courtney manages to elude the LCPD and make his way off the police raid, most likely with the help of one of his any surviving henchmen due to his injuries.
Grand Theft Auto III[]
The game's events take place in 2001. Claude meets King Courtney from a payphone in Stanton Island. Courtney assigns two of his hit men to monitor Claude in a drive-by shooting of a rival gang. Afterward, Claude is given the task to collect three cars from other rival gangs. The vehicles include the Mafia Sentinel, the Yakuza Stinger, and the Diablo Stallion. All of them are delivered to a garage for deportation.
Courtney sends Claude to collect the Esperanto in an abandoned parking lot. However, it is revealed to be a trap, as Courtney is helping Catalina, presumably paid by her to betray the protagonist. Vans then enter the parking lot and unleash an endless number of madmen wearing explosives. Claude manages to destroy the madmen and the parked vans.
Afterwards, the Yardies become hostile towards Claude while Courtney is presumed to continue his illegal businesses behind the shadows, with his comeuppance presumably never delivered since then. Courtney was presumably was upset finding out Claude murdered his affiliate Catalina at the end of the story, though even then, he remains in hiding, still getting away with his actions.
Trivia[]
- King Courtney is one of the only Grand Theft Auto villains who successfully got away with his actions alongside Auntie Poulet, Donald Love, The Psycho and Juan Strickler. The events of the GTA storyline within 3D Universe end with him still alive and active.
- However, it should be noted that Claude never went to kill him because he did not know where King Courtney lives, while Mike came very close to kill him but refused as the LCPD were arriving to the scene and considered that remaining there to kill Courtney at the risk of being arrested was not really worth it.
