8-Ball: Difference between revisions

|games = [[Grand Theft Auto III]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto Advance]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]

|pob = [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]]

|home = [[Saint Marks]], [[Portland Island]], Liberty City

|nationality = [[United States|American]]

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

 

'''8-Ball''' is a recurring character in the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series appearing in [[Grand Theft Auto III]] (set in [[2001]]), [[Grand Theft Auto Advance]] (set in [[2000]] and [[2001]]) and in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]] (set in [[1998]]). 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 [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]]. He is voiced in all of his appearances by [[The Guru|Keith "The Guru" Elam]], an American rapper.

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]], including in [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]] (initially in [[Downtown Vice City|Downtown]] and later in [[Viceport]]), in [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]] (in [[El Corona]], [[Los Santos]]) and in Liberty City (in [[Saint Mark's]], [[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|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 Saint Mark's 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 Island Safehouse (GTA III)|hideout]] in the [[Red Light District]].

After changing out of their orange prison uniforms, 8-Ball has Claude drive him to [[Luigi's Sex Club 7]] and introduces him to [[Luigi Goterelli]], an old friend and member of the [[Leone Family]], who begins to employ him. [[Salvatore Leone]], the [[Boss|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 ended when, under orders from Salvatore Leone, he plants a bomb in a car [[Last Requests|designed to kill Claude]], who only survived due to the Don's wife, [[Maria Latore]].

*[[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>

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

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

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8-Ball_Mullan.jpg|Early game art of 8-Ball in GTA III, with his alleged real name, "Mullan".

8Ball-Artwork.jpg|Game art of 8-Ball in GTA III.

8-Ball-GTAA.jpg|8-Ball as he appears in GTA Advance. His appearance here is merely a modification of the previous image.

8-Ball-GTALCS.jpg|8-Ball in GTA Liberty City Stories.

Another Punch in the Gut for Organized Crime.jpg|Image accompanying a [[Liberty Tree]] [[Another Punch in the Gut for Organized Crime|article]]

Introduction-GTAIII5.jpg|8-Ball and Claude escaping from a [[LCPD in GTA III Era|police]] convoy

BombDaBaseActII-GTAIII.jpg|8-Ball after detonating a bomb to destroy the SPANK factory on a [[Portland Harbor]] docked freighter in [[Bomb Da Base Act II]]

8ball.jpg|8-Ball Autos in Saint Mark's, Portland Island, Liberty City

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