8-Ball: Difference between revisions

|home = [[Saint Mark's]], [[Portland]], [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]]

|affiliations = [[Donald Love]]<br />[[Toni Cipriani]]<br />[[Vinnie]]<br />[[Mike]]<br />[[Slick]]<br />[[Misty]]<br />[[Luigi Goterelli]]<br />[[Claude]]

|vehicles = [[Rumpo]]

|businesses = [[8-Ball Autos]]

|voice = [[The Guru]]

'''8-Ball''' is a character in the [[3D Universe]] who appears as a supporting character in [[Grand Theft Auto III]], a main character in [[Grand Theft Auto Advance]] and a minor character in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]. He is an explosives expert and firearms trader, owning [[8-Ball Autos|explosives garages]] in [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]], [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]] and [[San Andreas in GTA III Era|San Andreas]]. In GTA III and Liberty City Stories, he is voiced by the late [[The Guru|Keith "The Guru" Elam]].

8-Ball was born and raised in [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] and by [[1984]] had started his [[8-Ball Autos|business]] across the [[United States of America|United States]], including in [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]] (initially in [[Downtown Vice City|Downtown]] and later in [[Viceport]]), in [[San Andreas in GTA III Era|San Andreas]] (in [[El Corona]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]) and in Liberty City (in [[Harwood]], [[Newport]] and [[Pike Creek]]). He established contacts with various people in Liberty City, including businessman [[Donald Love]], who sent [[Toni Cipriani]] to 8-Ball at his Pike Creek garage to [[No Money, Mo' Problems|fill a van full of explosives]] to be used to [[Bringing the House Down|destroy]] the [[Fort Staunton]] district of [[Staunton Island]].

In [[2000]] he helps old friend [[Vinnie]] by creating [[fake IDs]] that [[Mike]] collected. Mike returns to 8-Ball following the [[Getaway|death]] of Vinnie and agrees to work for him whilst 8-Ball investigates Vinnie's death, saying he has some ideas of who was responsible. 8-Ball first has Mike [[Twisted Metal|dispose of Vinnie's body]] at the [[Harwood Autocrusher and Junkyard]], as "they don't ask questions". Following this, Mike helps to [[Ill Repute|pimp out]] three women (including [[Misty]]) to "high-rolling" clients, [[Droppin' Bombs|deliver a package]] to an angry customer, and extract [[Scorelli (mission)|revenge]] on [[Scorelli]] for 8-Ball. 8-Ball, with information from one of the prostitutes, sends Mike to [[Love Boat|meet]] a bar tender, [[Jonnie]]. 8-Ball later meets Mike again in a diner, but the two are [[Love of Money|ambushed]] by the [[Colombian Cartel]], who are looking to kill Mike following the [[Decoy Disaster|death]] of leader [[Cisco]]. 8-Ball burns his hands during the ambush and is unable to escape, telling Mike to do so before the [[LCPD in GTA III Era|police]] arrive.

8-Ball is arrested and convicted on eighty-five counts of owning a firearm without a licence, although a [[Liberty Tree]] [[Another Punch in the Gut for Organized Crime|article]], it is stated that 8-Ball was arrested at his home/garage in Harwood and that a police officer poured a pan of boiling fat onto his hands. After being convicted a decision is made to transfer him, along with bank robber [[Claude]] and a [[Old Oriental Gentleman|un-named elderly man]] to the police station in [[Portland View]]. The police convoy, however, is [[Introduction (GTA III)|attacked]] by the Colombian Cartel, who successfully kidnap the un-named elderly man. In the confusion, 8-Ball and Claude work together to escape and get far enough away to not be injured when a bomb, planted by the Cartel, destroys the [[Callahan Bridge]]. The two then escape to a [[Portland Hideout|hideout]] in the [[Red Light District]].

After changing out of their orange prison uniforms, 8-Ball has Claude drive him to [[Sex Club Seven]] and introduces him to [[Luigi Goterelli]], an old friend and member of the [[Leone Family]], who begins to employ him. [[Salvatore Leone]], the [[Gang Leaders|Don]] of the Leone Family, later [[Bomb Da Base Act I|sends Claude]] to 8-Ball and the two later [[Bomb Da Base Act II|destroy]] a freighter at [[Portland Harbor]], which was being used by the Colombian Cartel to manufacture the drug [[SPANK]]. His friendship with Claude, however, is assumed to have come to an end when [[Salvatore Leone]] attempts to set Claude up, and he has to flee [[Portland]].

*An authentic production artwork of 8-Ball has the name ''Mullan, A.K.A. 8-Ball'' written besides his image, suggesting his name may have been Mullan in development. This name was never used in any GTA game.

*8-Ball Autos is also used in the missions [[Mike Lips Last Lunch]], [[Kanbu Bust-out]] (both in GTA III) and [[Shogun Showdown]] (in GTA Liberty City Stories).

;GTA III

*[[Introduction (GTA III)|Introduction]]

*[[Give Me Liberty]] <small>(Boss)</small>

*[[Luigi's Girls]]

;GTA Advance

*[[Twisted Metal]] <small>(Boss) </small>

*[[Ill Repute]] <small>(Boss) </small>

*[[Droppin' Bombs]] <small>(Boss) </small>

*[[Scorelli (mission)|Scorelli]] <small>(Boss) </small>

*[[Love Boat]] <small>(Boss) </small>

* [[Love of Money]] <small>(Boss) </small>

;GTA Liberty City Stories

*[[No Money, Mo' Problems]] <small>(Boss) </small>

*[[Bringing the House Down]] <small>(Boss) </small>

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*[[Another Punch in the Gut for Organized Crime]] - [[Liberty Tree]] article about 8-Balls conviction