Grand Theft Auto has a cast of characters as extensive as the sandbox environments themselves. Although the games do share a universe, three different ones (2D, 3D, HD) in fact, the stories and characters within them tend to be self-contained. However, that has not prevented Rockstar Games from putting characters from previous Grand Theft Auto games into the newer ones on occasion, especially with the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy.
Several characters in the series have been lucky enough to appear
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