The Protagonist
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| CHARACTER The Protagonist
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| Appearance(s): | Saints Row Saints Row 2 Saints Row 2: Ultor Exposed Saints Row 2: Corporate Warfare Saints Row 3 |
| Full Name: | The Protagonist |
| Also Known As: | Playa, Boss |
| Home: | Stilwater |
| Nationality: | your choice |
| Affiliations: | 3rd Street Saints |
| Vehicle(s): | all
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In Saints Row 2, the protagonist can be made as either male or female. For sake of simplicity, this article will refer to them as male.
Saints Row
Saints Row starts with The Protagonist (an unnamed character simply called "Playa") walking through the fictional Midwest city of Stilwater, based on cities such as Detroit and Chicago, in the middle of a gang war between several gang factions. He starts to walk down the street being bothered by a crooked salesman selling watches and prostitutes who catches his attention. When he sees some Vice Kings spray painting a West Side Rollerz tag, they engage in physical combat until Los Carnales gang members perform a drive by. Though he attempts to maintain distance, one member from the Vice Kings attempt to gun him down; however, the 3rd Street Saints, led by Julius Little, step in and save him. After proving himself to the Saints, he's initiated into the gang and then asked to assist to take over the city from three rival gangs: (Los Carnales, West Side Rollerz, and the Vice Kings).
The Protagonist is forced to take temporary leadership and kills the mayor and the corrupt police of Stilwater in order to try to free Julius. Once the chief of police is dead, the Protagonist is invited to the private yacht of Alderman Richard Hughes, the only other candidate for mayor in the upcoming election, and thanks him for eradicating his political rival for him, planning to use his mayoral power to destroy the Saints. During his speech, the yacht explodes.
It should be noted that in a trailer for Saints Row, the protagonist has a small monolouge:
"I started out with nothin'... just a kid from the streets, with nothin' to lose. Then I met Julius, and everything changed. Once I joined the 3rd Street Saints, everything started going my way. I'd run some jobs, get paid, and lady luck was on my side. Now I have the women, the clothes, the rides, but it's not enough, I want more, I want it all. That's the great thing about this city, it's there for the taking. If you've got what it takes."
- The Protagonist.
Saints Row 2
The sequel is set five years after the events of Saints Row. The protagonist was disfigured from the climax in Saints Row, and undergoes plastic surgery, giving the player the chance to create or recreate their character anew. The silent protagonist is no longer silent, this needed to be changed as the game's story became more intense. The plot continues on from the first game with "a much darker and more sinister story that leads your character down a path of betrayal, revenge and redemption against the city that has left him for dead".
After being reunited again with Johnny Gat and Aisha, they plan on taking back their city once again. Three new gangs have moved in during the player's 5 year absence: The Brotherhood of Stilwater controlling the south, the Sons of Samedi taking all central Stilwater, and the Ronin having a tight grip on all the north. Their first move is to get a new hideout. This time, its an old underground hotel abandoned by the city. From here they get new lieutenants and slowly take back what was once theirs. After the 3rd Street Saints are at the peek of their power once more, the Silent Protagonist, now better known as 'The Boss', meets up with Julius Little.In which they work together to fight off Masako's then eventually escape into a Greek Theater. The older leader argues that his betrayal was the best way to end the Saints' diluted rule, but he is ultimately shot and killed by the Boss with a bullet to the face.
After taking back the city, conflict ignites between Ultor and The 3rd Street Saints, starting off when the Protagonist is ambushed at a nightclub by a Masako Unit, and the luitenants are kidnapped. After escaping the ambush and rescuing [Shaundi]] and Pierce, they all meet up with Johnny Gat and plan to assault The Pyramid, Ultor's secret facility built underneath and in the perimiter of Mount Claflin. They hope that it will expose Ultor's rather dastardly plans for the city, and to destroy their weapons and warheads. The Protagonist and Johnny head there, and the assault goes well. Soon, Pierce gives the Protagonist a hint that a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the ocean is where the Ultor Executives are having a meeting. The Protagonist goes there and kills all the executives and guards, and shoots down some attack helicopters. This all happens in front of Dane Vogel's eyes, who watches from his top floor office in the Phillips Building.
Later on Dane holds a press conference outside the Saint's Row church about the incident, and The Protagonist and Johnny plan an assasination. Johnny is spotted by a Guard who followed him to the rooftop, and accidently shoots the sniper rife while in a struggle with the guard, which alerts Dane and his bodyguards. The Protagonist rushes Dane with a pistol, while Johnny takes down any resistance after throwing the guard off the rooftop. The Protagonist jumps onto Dane's limo, but is shaken off, and he is forced to assault Dane by hijacking an attack helicopter, taking out the AA Guns on the Phillips Building, and eventually jumping off the Helicopter's fuselage, onto the top floor of the Phillips Building, where he then confronts Dane, and shoots him in the mouth, forcing him backwards through the window, and falling over 300 feet to his death. Shaundi and Pierce are late and miss the confrontation, though thankfully Tobias arrives in his helicopter and then flys them home. Johnny agrees to meet up with them all later on, after he kills off more police men.
Pierce asks the Protagonist "So...What do we do now?", in which the Protagonist responds "This is our city, we can do whatever the fuck we wanna do." And the game victoriously ends.
Trivia
- His Saints Row original costume (default) is a black shirt with long jeans. In Saints Row 2, he is depicted as an african-american male wearing a white tank top and track pants.
- In saints row 2 he is often called the boss by other saints.
- In a snatch activity in Saints Row 2, The Protagonist reveals that he grew up in Stilwater and visited a massage parlor often.
- He (or even she) is considerably taller than most of the other characters in the game.
- No matter what voice is chosen, he/she will sing along to the song Take On Me by A-Ha. They will also sing along to one additional song. The song they sing along to depends on which voice you choose. No matter the choice though, all songs are 80's New Wave tracks.
- Male 1 voice sings to "The Final Countdown" by Europe
- Female 2 voice sings to "The Reflex" by Duran Duran
- Civilians and Saints members constantly comment that his clothes smell and that he should change clothes if he doesn't change them for a few in-game days.
- In Saints Row 2, he wonders if he is in Ben King's book
- In the first game, the only time he speaks is near the end of the last gang missions. He comments that he hopes Gat doesn't mind Hepatitis after he claims he will "Skull fuck" Tanya. He is heard complaining to Julius that he got "ran over by a mother fucking truck". When Luz says that her heels are new, The Protagonist interrupts with "Bullshit! That's last years Fall collection". In the final cutscene "Salting the Earth", he complains to Alderman Richard Hughes that their meeting is taking to long and he wants to go to Freckle Bitch's.
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| Saints Row Julius Little – The Protagonist |
| Saints Row 2 The Protagonist – Johnny Gat |
