Carl Johnson: Difference between revisions

|gender = M

|voice = [[Young Maylay]].[[Christopher Bellard Young Maylay]]

Carl reunites with Woozie in San Fierro and the two quickly become strong allies, joining forces to take down each other's enemies - Carl targeting a drug cartel known as the [[Loco Syndicate]], which is supplying drugs to Smoke, and Woozie targeting his Vietnamese rivals, the [[Da Nang Boys]]. Carl, with help from Woozie, in return for him helping the Triads finish off the Da Nang Boys, infiltrates the Syndicate and eventually destroys its drug factory after he kills all the chief members - [[Jizzy B.]], [[T-Bone Mendez]], and apparently Syndicate leader [[Mike Toreno|Michael "Mike" Toreno]] and even [[Ryder]], whose betrayal is discovered during an attempt to trace a deal. The garage now becomes a vehicular chop-shop, while the acquisition of a showrrom nearby has now made Carl a millionaire. He receives a surprise phone call from an alive-and-well Toreno, who reveals that he is a government agent and would love to recruit Carl's help in exchange for releasing [[Sweet Johnson|Sweet]] from a supposedly permanent life sentence. Although it is a well-kept secret from all his friends, The Truth surprisingly discovers this due to his taste in conspiracy theories, and finds Carl at Toreno's [[Verdant Meadows Aircraft Graveyard|base of operations]], shortly after the government agent's disapperance, and suspects that Toreno can't be trusted. He instead proceeds to recruit Carl's help in [[Black Project|stealing]] a [[jetpack]] from [[Area 69|the Restricted Area south of the spot]], which is needed for The Truth's real goal of stealing a mysterious, all-important vial of the [[Green Goo|green goo]].

Woozie soon invites Carl to the Triad's recently inaugurated, extremely glamorous [[The Four Dragons Casino|Four Dragons Casino]] in Las Venturas. Upon arrival, Carl is promised shares in the casino by Woozie, "in exchange for some help setting it up". They are faced with aggressive competition from the Mafia-run [[Caligula's Palace]] and as revenge, spend weeks and weeks planning [[Breaking the Bank at Caligula's|an extremely elaborate heist]] on Caligula's Palace. This involves Carl infiltrating the Caligula's Casino's inner circle of management, by a sheer chance matter of The Truth's association with record producer [[Kent Paul]] and lead singer [[Maccer]] of British band The Gurning Chimps, to work with casino manager [[Ken Rosenberg|Ken "Rosie" Rosenberg]] and even don [[Salvatore Leone]]. Later, Carl helps Rosie, Paul and Maccer fake their deaths to escape Salvatore's rage. During this time period, Tenpenny and Pulaski have Carl perform one last job before attempting to kill him, and later, Hernandez, who defects against them to Internal Affairs; however, Carl, upon being saved from Pulaski by Hernandez, and realizing the dead recruit's worth in saving his life, kills Pulaski and escapes. Carl also, by chance, sees a disgraced and drunken[[Madd Dogg]] [[Madd Dogg (mission)|attempting to commit suicide]] and saves his life, partially out of guilt for ruining his career, and upon realizing that Loc was selfish all along.

Shortly after he receives a phone call from Sweet, Carl's vendetta with Tenpenny and Smoke, fueled by Madd Dogg having to sell his [[Madd Dogg's Crib|mansion]] to [[Los Santos Vagos]] drug lord [[Big Poppa]], prompts him to return to Los Santos, [[A Home in the Hills|taking back the rapper's mansion by force]]. While he is busy observing Paul and Maccer recording Madd Dogg's new album, Carl receives an unprecedented call from Toreno, who apparently has [[Vertical Bird|one final but highly dangerous string for Carl to pull off, despite Carl's extreme frustration and fatigue at first and later his expression of huge disgust and close-shave experience of a life-and-death crisis]] before Toreno [[Home Coming|relays in his final visit to the studio, to Carl, who is alone discussing business on phone, that Sweet has finally been released from prison]]. Carl attempts to persuade Sweet into moving away from Grove Street and joining him in Madd Dogg's Mansion, but Sweet is disgusted at Carl, who he assumes is now a lavish millionaire who has abandoned the Grove Street Families and his gang lifestyle. Sweet immediately takes Carl to begin their task of reclaiming all of their turf. As the gang returns to power, Carl finds time to [[Cut Throat Business|get back Madd Dogg's rhyme book]] from Loc, rebuilding Madd Dogg's career as well as giving a subtle blow to Smoke. In the case against Tenpenny, it is shown on the news that since there is no evidence implicating him in his criminal activities (evidence that Tenpenny had Carl destroy), along with no remaining witnesses (witnesses that Tenpenny had Carl kill), he would walk free, and only minutes after this, there were citywide [[Riot (GTA SA)|riots]]. During the confusion, [[Grove Street Families|Groves Street]] acquires almost half of the city's turf. Carl later joins Sweet back home to [[End of the Line|confront Smoke, whose whereabouts have been discovered]], personally kills Smoke to earn Sweet's respect after barging into his crack palace, and Tenpenny also dies after losing control of his firetruck and plunging off of the bridge above [[Grove Street]]. At a celebration at the Johnson house, Madd Dogg announces "''our'' first gold record" to Carl and [[Ken Rosenberg]]. Later in the night, Sweet insists on making Grove Street a priority, Kendl suggests going back to Las Venturas to rejoin Woozie, but Carl's only reply is that he is "fittin' to hit the block, see what's happening".

*[[Freddy (GTA SA)|Freddy]] <small>(Killed by CJ and OG Loc after a bike chase for raping OG Loc in prison)</small>

*[[Alan Crawford|Alan "Scipio" Crawford]] <small>(Killed on OG Loc's orders in order to sabotage Madd Dogg's career)</small>

*[[Eddie Pulaski|Edward "Eddie" Pulaski]] <small>(Killed for arranging the assassination of CJ's mother and attempting to kill off CJ)</small>

*[[Big Smoke|Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris]] <small>(Killed for betraying the Grove Street Families and responsible for CJ's mother's death)</small>

Carl was voiced by [[Young Maylay|Christopher "Chris" Bellard]], better known as Young Maylay. Rumors circulated the internet for a while that either Dave Chappelle or 50 Cent were supposed to voice CJ, but these were most likely just wishful thoughts on the part of their fans.

*Carl is also very under-sized outside of cutscenes, being at least half a head shorter than Ryder (who has been called a midget), and a whole head shorter compared to other Grove Street members and most pedestrians, including females. Likely another implication of his young age.

*CJ also bears some resemblance to French football (soccer) player [[wp:Thierry Henry|Thierry Henry]], but this is likely a coincidence.  

*If the player looks carefully, the player can see that CJ's eye color appears to be blue, implying he had European ancestors and those genes repeated.