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| “ | You know what your problem is? You're trying to be the good guy in a bad man's game. Huh, I thought you had potential. Turns out you're just another chump like Mendez! | „ |
| ~ Martinez to Victor Vance. |
Sergeant Jerry Martinez (simply known as Jerry Martinez) is the main antagonist of 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
He is a corrupt sergeant at the Vice City Army and one of Victor Vance's superior officers at the Fort Baxter Air Base. His corruption and irresponsibility ends up causing Victor to be dishonorably discharged from the army, thus kicking off the game's events in the process.
He was voiced by Felix Solis, who also played Omar Navarro in Ozark.
Biography[]
Sergeant Jerry Martinez does not take his position seriously and is shown to have few morals in him. At the beginning of the game, Martinez orders Victor to act as a middleman for his illegal activities. One task was to get a shipment of drugs for him and hide them in Vic's own barracks. He introduces Vic to Phil Cassidy, a gun supplier.
Later on, he tells Victor, who is increasingly uneasy about housing the drugs, that he will collect the marijuana once Victor picks up his girlfriend, who instead turns out to be a prostitute. However, because an earlier drug deal went awry, and unknown to Victor, Martinez decided to frame him for the offenses and lies to General Beverly McFadden that the drugs were the latter's. Victor is confronted at the airbase by a furious McFadden, who questions the drugs in Victor's barracks and the prostitute (ordered by Martinez himself) accompanying him. Victor is then given a dishonorable discharge from the Army service.
When Phil Cassidy, Martinez's business partner, threatens to sever their relationship, Martinez shows his vindictive side again when he betrays him, sending both Vic and Phil to an ambush. Martinez later works for the Mendez Brothers, overseeing their shipment of cocaine arriving into Vice City. When the cocaine is stolen by Victor and Lance, Jerry enters a witness protection program in fear of the Mendez Cartel.
In retaliation for forcing him to turning state evidence, Martinez kidnaps Vic's girlfriend Louise and beats her savagely, leaving her in a car for Vic to locate. After Vic steals an army helicopter right from under Martinez's nose, the villainous sergeant decides to meet Vic on top of the Mendez Building. During the meeting, Diego Mendez arrives and in the ensuing shootout Diego and Martinez are both killed and Victor spits on Martinez's corpse as Lance arrives in a helicopter.
Trivia[]
- Conceptual drawings drawn before the release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories depicted Martinez as a sinister and villainous soldier. However, his in-game personality is more of a buffoonish psychopath. This possibly suggests that Martinez was originally intended to be a serious villain in the game's beta version.
- He has a bike parked near his barracks.
- He is the only Grand Theft Auto character to be, or at least implied to be, a zoophile, as he enjoyed the zoophilic videos of Candy Suxx between a pig and a horse. However, it doesn't confirm that Martinez feels sexually attracted to animals, as he never expressed that. Indeed, it could be just possible that he was only attracted to Candy and felt jealous of the animals.
- Despite being the main antagonist, Jerry doesn't appear halfway throughout the game except he does make sparse appearances in some missions such as The Mugshot Longshot and is only seen via Vic's pager, and his later crimes were off-screen before making his last appearance in the final mission Last Stand.
- Although not explicitly depicted, Martinez actually framed Vic for the drugs and the prostitute which he ordered.
