Niko Bellic
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Nikolai "Niko" Bellic is the protagonist (main character) of Grand Theft Auto IV. He has a strong Eastern European accent. Judging by the surname, it is likely he is from a former Yugoslav country, such as Serbia, Croatia, or Bosnia, where surnames ending with -ic (pronounced like 'itch' and simply meaning "child of") are incredibly common. He could also be from Russia since Seryoga, a russian rapper, was on the backround music on the second trailer with the song "King Ring". Bellic is more and more likely Russian in origin. At least four facts so far support this hypothesis. Firstly, during the mission "Three's A Crowd," Niko must change his clothes to impress Michelle, a potential girlfriend. Roman sends him to a thrift store at Mohawk and Hove, a store which has Russian Cyrillic lettering up in the windows and a whole lot of Russian Federation and Soviet memorabilia (winter hats with the hammer and sickle, army hats with the Russian flag on it). After shopping at the store Niko calls up Roman and tells him that "it seems like the store brought the clothes from the old country." Secondly, whilst taking Little Jacob (or Jermaine, need correction on this one) back to his place after the chase, Bellic states that Roman "owes some money to another Russian," obviously referring to Vlad. It can also be oftenly heard over the radio that "undesirable Russian immigrants" have been coming more often to Liberty City.
In the debut trailer he has a brief monologue: "Life is complicated; I killed people... smuggled people... sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different."
In his mid-thirties, he travels to Liberty City on the promise of a new life by his cousin Roman, only to be disappointed by his lies - at which point the player of GTA IV takes control.
Niko's fake resume claims his objective is to "rise to the top of my profession in Liberty City," that he has experience in criminal law with cases like manslaughter under his belt. He also claims that he deals with the emerging markets in the West Indies (especially 'Jamaica and Puerto Rico'). He also claims to have been the associate attorney at Mediterranean Shipping Enterprise, and an intern at a police force. His school is supposedly 'Walford University' in the UK. He has supposedly been in the "Balkan Peace Force" and has extensive military training.
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