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{{also|''For the mission in [[Grand Theft Auto 1|GTA 1]] associated with this vehicle, see [[Stallion (mission)]].''}}
{{infobox character|
{{Infobox vehicle
|image =Sweet-GTASA.jpg
| name = Stallion
|game_1 = GTA San Andreas
| front_image = Stallion-GTA1.png
|name = Sean Johnson
| vehicle_type = Civilian car
|aka = Sweet
| body_style = 2-door convertible<br />2-door coupe<br>2-door hardtop
|status = Alive
| capacity = 2
|gender =
| manufacturer = [[Classique]] <small>(GTA IV)</small>
|dob =
| game_1 = GTA 1
|pob = [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]
| game_2 = GTA III
|dod =
| game_3 = GTA Vice City
|home = [[Johnson House]] and [[Sweet's House]] in [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]
| game_4 = GTA San Andreas
|nationality = American
| game_5 = GTA Liberty City Stories
|family = [[Beverly Johnson]] <small>(mother, [[The Introduction|deceased]])</small><br />[[Carl Johnson]] <small>(brother)</small><br />[[Kendl Johnson]] <small>(sister)</small><br />[[Brian Johnson]] <small>(brother, deceased)</small>
| game_6 = GTA Vice City Stories
|affiliations = [[Grove Street Families]]<br />[[Big Smoke]] <small>(deceased)</small> <br />[[Ryder]] <small>(deceased)</small> <br />[[OG Loc]] <small>(until 1992)</small><br />[[Big Bear]]<br />[[B Dup]] <small>(until 1992)</small> <br>[[C.R.A.S.H.]] <small>(deceased)</small><br />[[Cesar Vialpando]]
| game_7 = GTA IV
|vehicles = [[Greenwood]]
| game_8 = GTA Chinatown Wars
|businesses =
|voice = [[Faizon Love]]
}}
}}
The '''Stallion''' is a recurring two-door coupe and convertible that has appeared in eight of the [[Grand Theft Auto]] games.
'''Sean "Sweet" Johnson''' is a character in the [[3D Universe]] who appears as a principal deuteragonist in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]. [[Gang Leaders|Leader]] of the [[Grove Street Families]] gang based in [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]], he is the eldest son of [[Beverly Johnson]], whose other children are [[Carl Johnson|Carl]], [[Kendl Johnson|Kendl]] and [[Brian Johnson|Brian]]. Shown to have an unnamed girlfriend in two missions, he is voiced by [[Faizon Love]], who has also appeared in the television show ''The Parent 'Hood'' and more recently the film ''Couples Retreat''.


== Description ==
==Character history==
The Stallion was first featured in GTA 1, in which it appears as a hardtop design and is one of the faster cars on the road; however, it didn't appear again in the series until GTA III. In true muscle car fashion, it has V8 power channeled to the rear wheels.
===Early life===
Sweet was born to [[Beverly Johnson]] and an unnamed father inside the [[Johnson House]] on [[Grove Street]] in [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]. He is later present at the births of his three siblings, [[Carl Johnson|Carl]], [[Kendl Johnson|Kendl]] and [[Brian Johnson|Brian]]. At an unknown point of time, he became involved with the [[Grove Street Families]] and rose to the ranks of the gang leader. Brian died in an accident in 1987, which Sweet blamed on Carl, resulting in Carl leaving for [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]]. Sweet then moved out into his own [[Sweet's House|house]] next door to his childhood home. During two [[Beat Down on B Dup|separate]] [[Sweet's Girl|instances]], he is shown to have a girlfriend, who he may or may not have known prior to [[1992]].
{{spoilers}}


In GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, a variant of the Stallion is featured in the game. Called [[Diablo Stallion]], it is the primary gang car used by the [[Diablos]]. In GTA San Andreas, the regular Stallion is a gang car for the [[San Fierro Rifa]].
===1992===
Sweet continued to lead the Grove Street Families, whose influence began to decline as their [[Ballas|rivals]] began to manufacture and sell drugs. His childhood friend, [[Big Smoke|Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris]], attempted to convince him to start selling drugs to help the Grove Street Families, although Sweet refuses. Having had enough of it, the Ballas, with whom Smoke and [[Ryder|Lance "Ryder" Wilson]], another childhood friend, are now connected, decide to kill Sweet and perform a drive-by shooting on the Johnson house. The gang, however, instead kills Beverly, which results in Carl returning from Liberty City.


=== Design ===
At the funeral, Sweet and Kendl are reunited with Carl, although Sweet angers Kendl by insulting her boyfriend [[Cesra Vialpando|Cesar "Ces" Vialpando]] and berates Carl for missing Brian's and Beverly's funerals. For a short time thereafter, he continues to share a platonic strain with Carl but later realises his true intentions of staying and helping the Grove Street Families, resulting in a more brotherly relationship.
==== GTA 1 ====
[[File:Stallion-GTA1.png|thumb|180px|A Stallion in [[Grand Theft Auto 1|GTA 1]].]]


In GTA 1, the car resembles a 1968-1970 [[wp:Pontiac GTO|Pontiac GTO]], but presumably takes its name from the [[wp:Ford Mustang|Ford Mustang]] (see Stallion-Mustang comparison in [[#Trivia]]).
Sweet then decides to have Carl work for the gang, including to [[Tagging Up Turf|put up gang tags]] across [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos']] poorer districts, [[Cleaning the Hood|killing some Ballas drug dealers]], [[Drive Thru|killing some Ballas attempting a drive-by]], [[Nines and AKs|meeting]] an [[Emmet|old friend]] and [[Drive-By|killing Ballas]] gangsters in [[Jefferson, Los Santos|Jefferson]]. Sweet also has Carl [[Cesar Vialpando (mission)|meet]] Cesar, leader of the rival [[Varrios Los Aztecas]], with Carl reporting that he will be good to Kendl.


==== GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories ====
Sweet's leadership and the gang's continued decline begins to lead to factions within the Grove Street Families to break away, often resulting in [[Sweet's Girl|confrontations within the sets]]. Carl manages to bolster confidence and later Sweet organizes a [[Reuniting the Families|meeting]] for the various factions, including the Temple Drive Families, in the [[Jefferson Motel]], though the meeting is interrupted by the [[LSPD in GTA III Era|police]]. The gang, however, continues to do well despite the factions with Carl [[Doberman|taking control]] of [[Glen Park]] and [[Los Sepulcros|killing]] [[Kane]], a high ranking member of the Ballas.
[[GTA III Era|Between GTA III and GTA Vice City Stories]], it appears to be based loosely on a [[wp:First-generation Ford Mustang|1964-68 Ford Mustang]], mostly due its small size and name since there are no other remarkable similarities; but the grille loosely resembles a 1969/1970 [[wp:Oldsmobile Cutlass#Third Generation - 1968-1972|Oldsmobile Cutlass]] (also the [[:wp:Oldsmobile 442|Oldsmobile 442]]) (creating a look similar to an [[:wp:Oldsmobile Omega|Oldsmobile Omega]]), and the back bumper looks loosely based on those of 1970-1972 Cutlasses (but this is less obvious in the GTA SA rendition). The hood carries on the resemblance of the 1968-1970 Pontiac GTO. The prominent Oldsmobile cues give the Stallion a [[Sabre|proto-Sabre-like]] design, until it was more accurately revised for the GTA IV version.


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Sweet is later involved in a shootout with various [[Ballas]] gangsters, who attack in waves after arriving in vans under the [[Mulholland Intersection]]. He is shot during the gunfight, but [[The Green Sabre|survives from timely intervention on the part of Carl, who informs Sweet of Smoke's betrayal]] and his alliance with corrupt [[C.R.A.S.H.]] officers [[Frank Tenpenny]] and [[Eddie Pulaski|Edward "Eddie" Pulaski]], who are known to be in a full-swing alliance with the Ballas. After a lengthy shootout, the cops turn up and arrest both Sweet and Carl. Sweet is later taken to prison but Carl is taken to [[Whetstone]] by Tenpenny, Pulaski and rookie [[Jimmy Hernandez]] and begins his life in the rest of the [[San Andreas in GTA III Era|state of San Andreas]].
File:Stallion-GTAIII-front.jpg|[[Grand Theft Auto III|GTA III]]<br>(<small>[[:File:Stallion-GTAIII-rear.jpg|Rear quarter view, top down]]</small>).
File:Stallion-GTAVC-front.jpg|[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City|GTA Vice City]]; top down<br>(<small>[[:File:Stallion-GTAVC-rear.jpg|Rear quarter view, top up]]</small>).
File:Stallion-GTASA-front.jpg|[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|GTA San Andreas]]; hardtop<br>(<small>[[:File:Stallion-GTASA-rear.jpg|Rear quarter view, convertible with top up]]</small>).
File:Stallion-GTALCS-front.jpg|[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories|GTA Liberty City Stories]]<br>(<small>[[:File:Stallion-GTALCS-rear.jpg|Rear quarter view, top up]]</small>).
File:Stallion-GTAVCS-front.jpg|[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories|GTA Vice City Stories]]<br>(<small>[[:File:Stallion-GTAVCS-rear.jpg|Rear quarter view, top down]]</small>).
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==== GTA IV — GTA Chinatown Wars ====
In GTA IV, the car is manufactured by [[Classique]] and resembles a much bigger muscle car rather than a pony car. The Stallion's headlight and taillight positions closely resemble a [[wp:Plymouth Barracuda|Plymouth Barracuda]]. It does also resemble the 1969-1973 Mustang due to the single headlight setup. The chassis is more like 1968-69 Oldsmobile Cutlasses but the sides bear the aggressive, heavily creased, lines of 1970-1972 Oldsmobile Cutlasses; the rear end looks like that of a 1971 or 1972 Cutlass (the "STALLION" marque is rendered above the bumper much like the "OLDSMOBILE" marque) with extra lights. The headlights are surrounded by headlight bezels similar to the ones on a 1968 Cutlass. Its engine is a 347ci (5.6 litre) V8. It is similar in appearance to the [[Clover]] from GTA San Andreas.
 
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File:Stallion-GTAIV-front.jpg|[[Grand Theft Auto IV|GTA IV]]; hardtop<br>(<small>[[:File:Stallion-GTAIV-rear.jpg|Rear quarter view, convertible with top down]]</small>).
File:Stallion-GTACW.png|[[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars|GTA Chinatown Wars]].
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=== Performance ===
==== GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories ====
Its handling varies in each game. In [[Grand Theft Auto III]], the Stallion has reasonable acceleration, though its rear wheel drive layout and huge amount of low-down torque meant it was easy to perform professional-grade drifts around corners, doughnuts and wheel-spin when taking off. The GTA Vice City version is altogether slower than the GTA III rendition; however, its tail-happy traits remained. In GTA San Andreas, it handles much like the [[Clover]] and [[Sabre]] but fishtailing rarely occurs. The vehicle also appears in GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories, where they have similar attributes to the GTA III and GTA Vice City renditions, respectively.
 
==== GTA IV — GTA Chinatown Wars ====
In GTA IV the Stallion is easier to steer, but it will occasionally spin out of control, especially in poor weather conditions such as [[rain]]. With good power, handling, and acceleration it is easily one of the top three muscle cars in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]]. Care should be taken through corners though; despite having good grip, the Stallion is awful at keeping flat through corners. The Stallion can also be quite bumpy on the road. Its top speed is 145 km/h (90 mph).
 
The GTA Chinatown Wars rendition adopts a combination of performance traits of previous renditions, with high top speed and acceleration and good steering, but very poor grip as a result of excess torque, resulting in the car skidding frequently, even in slight turns.
 
== Customization in GTA San Andreas ==
The Stallion in GTA San Andreas can be modified at a [[TransFender]], which offers a wide range of parts for the car:


''Italicized pricing denotes prices at the [[Las Venturas]] TransFender, which charges 20% more except Colors.''
===Life during imprisonment===
{{Col-begin}}
[[File:Interdiction-GTASA.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Mike Toreno]] telling [[Carl Johnson]] about Sweet's life in prison, during [[Interdiction]].]]
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Carl continues to work his way up the criminal underworld in [[San Fierro]] and becomes aware of the [[Loco Syndicate]], led by [[Jizzy B.]], [[T-Bone Mendez]] and [[Mike Toreno|Michael "Mike" Toreno]], who are selling drugs to members of the [[Los Santos Vagos]], who are in alliance with Smoke, the Ballas and the [[Russian Mafia]]. Carl begins working for them, allowing his newfound [[San Fierro Triads|Triad]] allies to find out more about their dealings. Carl later kills [[Ice Cold Killa|Jizzy]], [[Pier 69 (mission)|Mendez]] and, or so he thought to be [[Toreno's Last Flight|Toreno]], along with Ryder, who he realizes has been Smoke's right hand man in the drug business. He later receives a phone call from an unknown man who reveals himself to be Toreno, who had sent another man as a decoy during [[Toreno's Last Flight|the supposed interruption of his chopper]]. Carl begins to work for the government agent and his work is rewarded, as Toreno helps secure the release of Sweet, who is paroled [[Vertical Bird|after an extremely dangerous assault on property belonging to Naval authorities and spy agencies stationed in the area across the state makes headlines]].
* Colors
** Car Color 1 (primary body color): $150
* Vents
** Oval Hood Vents: $150 (''$180'')
** Square Hood Vents: $100 (''$120'')
* Lights
** Round Fog Lamp: $100 (''$120'')
* Nitro
** 2x Nitrous: $200 (''$240'')
** 5x Nitrous: $500 (''$600'')
** 10x Nitrous: $1,000 (''$1,200'')
* Spoilers:
** Win: $550 (''$660'')
** Fury: $350 (''$420'')
** Alpha $250 (''$300'')
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* Side Skirt: $500 (''$600'')
* Wheels
** Import: $820 (''$984'')
** Atomic: $770 (''$924'')
** Ahab: $1,000 (''$1,200'')
** Virtual: $620 (''$744'')
** Access: $1,140 (''$1,368'')
** Off Road Wheel: $1,000 (''$1,200'')
** Mega: $1,030 (''$1,236'')
** Grove: $1,230 (''$1,476'')
** Twist: $1,200 (''$1,440'')
** Wires: $1,560 (''$1,872'')
* Car Stereo
** Bass Boost: $100 (''$120'')
* Hydraulics: $1,500 (''$1,800'')
{{Col-end}}


== Variants ==
===Release from prison===
* The [[Diablo Stallion]] (also known simply as the "Diablo") is a gang variant of the Stallion preferred by the [[Diablos]] in GTA III, GTA Advance and GTA Liberty City Stories, being distinctive by its flame paintjob and exposed engine block.
[[File:HomeComing-GTASA2.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Sweet meeting [[Carl Johnson]] in [[Pershing Square]] after being released from prison, during [[Home Coming]].]]
* A rare purple Stallion can be found during the first encounter with [[Jeff]] in GTA IV.
Carl tells Sweet of his and Kendl's new life in [[San Fierro]] and [[Las Venturas]], trying to convince him to move away from Los Santos. Sweet, however, insists on returning to [[Ganton]] and, upon their return, they re-take control of the area. Sweet then accompanies Carl as the two [[Beat Down on B Dup|re-take]] [[Glen Park]] and rescue [[Big Bear]] from the clutches of drug dealer [[B Dup]], with Sweet taking him to rehab. Carl is then instructed to [[Grove 4 Life|take control]] of [[Idlewood]], one of the districts neighboring Ganton.


== Non-GTA appearances ==
During this time, Tenpenny is arrested and put on trial. He is, however, found not guilty and released from prison, resulting in [[Riot (GTA SA)|riots]] across Los Santos' poorer districts. Sweet, who had joined Carl, Kendl, Cesar, aging countryside hippie [[The Truth]], British musician [[Maccer]] and formerly disgraced rapper and Carl's managerial client [[Madd Dogg]] at the rapper's [[Madd Dogg's Crib|mansion]], is then driven home by Carl. Sweet then begins to think about ending the war between the Grove Street Families and the Ballas, but allows Carl to help Cesar and the [[Varrios Los Aztecas]] [[Los Desperados|re-take]] the [[El Corona]] district, in order to repay his debt to Cesar, who too had been exiled just after Carl in the past.
The Stallion has cameod multiple times in several non-GTA games, including those produced by other subsidiaries of [[Rockstar Games]]:


* The Stallion appears in [[Rockstar North]]'s [[Manhunt]] as a burnt out [[Wrecks|wreck]].
===Final showdown===
* The Stallion makes cameo appearances in [[Rockstar Toronto]]'s [[wp:The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]] as the cars on the streets that the player can steal radios from.  
[[File:EndoftheLine-GTASA5.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Sweet, [[Carl Johnson]], [[Cesar Vialpando]] and [[Kendl Johnson]] witnessing the last moments of [[Frank Tenpenny]] in [[Grove Street]], during [[End of the Line]].]]
* A black Stallion with a flame paintjob (similar to a Diablo Stallion) appears in [[Rockstar Vancouver]]'s [[Bully]] in the Shop class.
Shortly afterwards, the two brothers [[End of the Line|decide to take on the Ballas, stop their drug manufacturing business and kill Smoke for his betrayal]]. Sweet initially plans to join his brother, but Carl persuades him to wait it out while he takes care of it personally. Carl manages a magnificent break into the [[Big Smoke's Crack Palace|manufacturing plant]] and manages to kill not only Smoke, but the countless [[Ballas]], [[Los Santos Vagos]] and [[Russian Mafia]] gangsters attempting to gun him down on his way to the top. After killing Smoke, Carl, however, is interrupted by Tenpenny, who sets some of the machinery on fire. Luckily, Carl manages to escape the building in time to see Tenpenny escape in a [[Fire Truck|fire truck]].


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Sweet, who has been watching outside the entire time, quickly notices Tenpenny's escape and grabs hold of one of the truck's ladders. Carl then drives after his brother in an open-top [[Feltzer]], which Sweet eventually drops into and the two give chase, fending off the [[LSPD in GTA III Era|police]] along the way. The two continue to chase Tenpenny until he crashes his fire truck, which goes over a bridge and falls into [[Grove Street]]. Sweet and Carl, along with Kendl, Cesar and The Truth, watch as Tenpenny dies after climbing out from the truck's cabin. The five then return to the Johnson House and are joined by disbarred former lawyer and Dogg's accountant [[Ken Rosenberg]], [[Maccer]] and record producer [[Kent Paul]] as they celebrate their success.
File:Burnt-Out-Stallion.jpg|Burnt wrecked Stallions in [[Manhunt]].
File:Bully-cars.jpg|The Stallion in the Shop class in [[Bully]].
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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
* The Stallion name, when first adopted in GTA 1, appears to be a play of the Ford Mustang name. Both names refer to equestrian terms for horses that are not fully domesticated. A "[[wp:mustang (horse)|mustang]]" is "a free-roaming feral horse of the North American west that first descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish", while a "[[wp:Stallion|Stallion]]" is simply "a male horse that has not been neutered, castrated, or gelded".
*In replay mode, Sweet, along with Smoke and [[Ryder]], appears as a pedestrian character model.
* A version of the Ford Mustang called the Stallion Special was sold exclusively by Mainway Ford in 1967.
*The license plate on Sweet's [[Greenwood]] is GROVE4L.
* The Stallion is the longest surviving car in the GTA series, and also one of the most frequently featured civilian cars in the series, appearing in 8 out of 14 GTA games, the exceptions being the two [[Grand Theft Auto: London 1969|GTA London]] [[Grand Theft Auto: London 1961|expansion packs]], [[Grand Theft Auto 2|GTA 2]], [[Grand Theft Auto Advance|GTA Advance]] (although the [[Diablo Stallion|Diablo "Stallion"]] appears in the game), [[The Lost and Damned]] and [[The Ballad of Gay Tony]].
*Sweet's Greenwood is destroyed during the mission [[Reuniting the Families]] after being driven through a [[Sprunk]] advertising board and falling on to a highway before exploding. Sweet later purchases another blue Greenwood telling Carl that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
* The Stallion is one of the earliest in-game cars to be featured on a box art of a Grand Theft Auto game, appearing in several versions of GTA III cover arts.
*Sweet, despite being against the sale of hard drugs, almost uses cocaine in the mission [[Beat Down on B Dup]], although Carl intervenes.
* The interior of the GTA IV Stallion features a photograph taped to the dashboard, its purpose being largely unknown due to the poor quality of the photograph texture. The same interior is reused in the [[Rhapsody]], but the photograph is substituted with one depicting what seems to be Wayne and Garth from [[wp:Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]].
*Sweet's dislike for Carl, prior to his return to Los Santos, is seen during [[The Introduction]] where he states that Carl 'has his own life, more than he deserves' and that he "can rot in hell for all I give a fuck".
[[File:Stallion-GTACW-papercraft.jpg|275px|thumb|right|A rendering of the papercraft Stallion from the GTA Chinatown Wars section of the [[Rockstar Games Social Club]].]]
*Sweet's favorite radio stations are [[Bounce FM]] and [[CSR 103.9]].
* Under the "[[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars|Chinatown Wars]]" section of the [[Rockstar Games Social Club]] website, members may download a printable papercraft model of a Stallion. The papercraft model features the [[Vapid]] logo on its grille instead of the [[Classique]] logo and nameplate. It bears more of a likeness to a 1970–74 Plymouth Barracuda and 1969–1973 Ford Mustang, while the grille emulates a 1964/1965 Mustang's.
*During his imprisonment, Sweet was taken 'upstate' and placed in D-wing cell 13 according to [[Mike Toreno]] in the mission [[Interdiction]]. The prisoner in the cell to the left was a child killer who wanted to rip his throat out and on the right a white supremacist who wanted to eat his heart.
* The Stallion plays the following radio stations by default when entered:
** [[K-DST]] in GTA San Andreas.
** [[Liberty Rock Radio 97.8]] in GTA IV.
*In GTA 1, the Stallion's base export value tops up at $600 if the car is delivered in mint condition. In GTA IV, the car may be sold at [[S&M Auto Sales]] for a maximum of $2,200 (in perfect condition) after completion of [[Stevie's Car Thefts]].
 
== Locations ==
;GTA 1
* Only available in traffic in [[Liberty City in GTA 1|Liberty City]].
 
;GTA III
* Inside a multistory parking garage in [[Newport]], starts the mission [[Multistory Mayhem]]
* In [[Hepburn Heights]], near a parked [[TOYZ]] van
* In [[Trenton]], across the street from [[Joey's Garage]]
* In the parking lot of [[Carson General Hospital]] in [[Rockford]]
* In a parking lot across the street from [[Liberty City Memorial Stadium]] in [[Aspatria]]
* In a parking lot next to a cliff in [[Cedar Grove]]
* In the parking lot of [[Francis International Airport in GTA III Era|Francis International Airport]]
 
;GTA Vice City
* On top of a [[Washington Avenue Parking Lot|multistory carpark]] in [[Ocean Beach]], starts the mission [[Cone Crazy]]. Push the car out of the parking space to prevent triggering the activity.
* Very common in the parts of [[Little Haiti]] if one drives an [[Idaho]].


[[File:Replay-GTASA-Drive-By.png|right|thumb|Sweet's character model, with [[Ryder]] and [[Big Smoke]], as seen during replay mode during [[Drive-By]].]]
==Mission appearances==
;GTA San Andreas
;GTA San Andreas
* Spawns in [[San Fierro Rifa]] gang turf like in [[Doherty]], [[Garcia]] and [[Battery Point]], [[San Fierro]]
*[[The Introduction]]
* In front of the [[Supa Save!]] in [[Juniper Hill]], San Fierro (only when wanted for export)
*[[Sweet & Kendl]]
* Available at [[Easter Basin]] docks, [[San Fierro]] for import after second list completion, for $15,200 on Wednesday
*[[Tagging Up Turf]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Cleaning the Hood]] <small>'''(Boss, Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>
*[[Drive-Thru]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Nines and AKs]] <small>'''(Boss, Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>
*[[OG Loc (mission)|OG Loc]]
*[[Drive-By]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Sweet's Girl]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Cesar Vialpando]] <small>'''(Boss, Pseudo-Boss)'''</small>
*[[Doberman]] <small>'''(Unseen Boss: Pre-mission Phone Call)'''</small>
*[[Los Sepulcros]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[House Party]] <small>'''(Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>
*[[Reuniting the Families]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[The Green Sabre]] <small>'''(Boss, Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss, Arrested)'''</small>
*[[Badlands]] <small>'''(Voice: Post-mission Phone Call)'''</small>
*[[Saint Mark's Bistro]] <small>'''(Voice: Post-mission Phone Call)'''</small>
*[[Home Coming]] <small>'''(Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss, Released)'''</small>
*[[Beat Down on B Dup]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Grove 4 Life]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Riot (GTA SA)|Riot]] <small>'''(Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>
*[[Los Desperados]] <small>'''(Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>
*[[End of the Line]] <small>'''(Boss, Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>


;GTA Liberty City Stories
;Cut Mission
* The parking lot across from the stadium, [[Aspatria]], [[Staunton Island]].
*[[Looking for Big Smoke]]
* Next to the Courthouse, [[Bedford Point]].
* Liberty Tree parking lot, Bedford Point, Staunton Island.  ([[Idaho]] may spawn instead)
* [[Carson General Hospital]], [[Rockford]], [[Staunton Island]].  ([[Trashmaster]] may spawn instead)
* Spawned regularly in all places.
* In the parking lot of [[Francis International Airport in GTA III Era|Francis International Airport]].


;GTA Vice City Stories
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* Parked in front of all drug-trading empire businesses owned by [[Victor Vance]] (If you own all business, it will be bulletproof).
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* Often spawns in the multi-story car park, [[Ocean Beach]].
File:Sweet-GTASA-artwork.jpg|Artwork of Sweet.
 
File:Sweet-GTASA-artwork2.jpg|Artwork of Sweet.
;GTA IV
File:BeatDownonBDup-GTASA.jpg|Sweet being offered crack during [[Beat Down on B Dup]].
* Commonly spawns around the city.
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* Spawn in traffic in [[Multiplayer in GTA IV|multiplayer]]


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Character
Sean Johnson
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Appearances GTA San Andreas
Full Name Sean Johnson
Aliases Sweet
Status

Alive

Place of Birth Ganton, Los Santos
Nationality American
Home Johnson House and Sweet's House in Ganton, Los Santos
Family Beverly Johnson (mother, deceased)
Carl Johnson (brother)
Kendl Johnson (sister)
Brian Johnson (brother, deceased)
Main Affiliations Grove Street Families
Big Smoke (deceased)
Ryder (deceased)
OG Loc (until 1992)
Big Bear
B Dup (until 1992)
C.R.A.S.H. (deceased)
Cesar Vialpando
Vehicles Greenwood
Voiced by Faizon Love
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Sean "Sweet" Johnson is a character in the 3D Universe who appears as a principal deuteragonist in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Leader of the Grove Street Families gang based in Ganton, Los Santos, he is the eldest son of Beverly Johnson, whose other children are Carl, Kendl and Brian. Shown to have an unnamed girlfriend in two missions, he is voiced by Faizon Love, who has also appeared in the television show The Parent 'Hood and more recently the film Couples Retreat.

Character history

Early life

Sweet was born to Beverly Johnson and an unnamed father inside the Johnson House on Grove Street in Ganton, Los Santos. He is later present at the births of his three siblings, Carl, Kendl and Brian. At an unknown point of time, he became involved with the Grove Street Families and rose to the ranks of the gang leader. Brian died in an accident in 1987, which Sweet blamed on Carl, resulting in Carl leaving for Liberty City. Sweet then moved out into his own house next door to his childhood home. During two separate instances, he is shown to have a girlfriend, who he may or may not have known prior to 1992.


1992

Sweet continued to lead the Grove Street Families, whose influence began to decline as their rivals began to manufacture and sell drugs. His childhood friend, Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris, attempted to convince him to start selling drugs to help the Grove Street Families, although Sweet refuses. Having had enough of it, the Ballas, with whom Smoke and Lance "Ryder" Wilson, another childhood friend, are now connected, decide to kill Sweet and perform a drive-by shooting on the Johnson house. The gang, however, instead kills Beverly, which results in Carl returning from Liberty City.

At the funeral, Sweet and Kendl are reunited with Carl, although Sweet angers Kendl by insulting her boyfriend Cesar "Ces" Vialpando and berates Carl for missing Brian's and Beverly's funerals. For a short time thereafter, he continues to share a platonic strain with Carl but later realises his true intentions of staying and helping the Grove Street Families, resulting in a more brotherly relationship.

Sweet then decides to have Carl work for the gang, including to put up gang tags across Los Santos' poorer districts, killing some Ballas drug dealers, killing some Ballas attempting a drive-by, meeting an old friend and killing Ballas gangsters in Jefferson. Sweet also has Carl meet Cesar, leader of the rival Varrios Los Aztecas, with Carl reporting that he will be good to Kendl.

Sweet's leadership and the gang's continued decline begins to lead to factions within the Grove Street Families to break away, often resulting in confrontations within the sets. Carl manages to bolster confidence and later Sweet organizes a meeting for the various factions, including the Temple Drive Families, in the Jefferson Motel, though the meeting is interrupted by the police. The gang, however, continues to do well despite the factions with Carl taking control of Glen Park and killing Kane, a high ranking member of the Ballas.

Sweet is later involved in a shootout with various Ballas gangsters, who attack in waves after arriving in vans under the Mulholland Intersection. He is shot during the gunfight, but survives from timely intervention on the part of Carl, who informs Sweet of Smoke's betrayal and his alliance with corrupt C.R.A.S.H. officers Frank Tenpenny and Edward "Eddie" Pulaski, who are known to be in a full-swing alliance with the Ballas. After a lengthy shootout, the cops turn up and arrest both Sweet and Carl. Sweet is later taken to prison but Carl is taken to Whetstone by Tenpenny, Pulaski and rookie Jimmy Hernandez and begins his life in the rest of the state of San Andreas.

Life during imprisonment

Mike Toreno telling Carl Johnson about Sweet's life in prison, during Interdiction.

Carl continues to work his way up the criminal underworld in San Fierro and becomes aware of the Loco Syndicate, led by Jizzy B., T-Bone Mendez and Michael "Mike" Toreno, who are selling drugs to members of the Los Santos Vagos, who are in alliance with Smoke, the Ballas and the Russian Mafia. Carl begins working for them, allowing his newfound Triad allies to find out more about their dealings. Carl later kills Jizzy, Mendez and, or so he thought to be Toreno, along with Ryder, who he realizes has been Smoke's right hand man in the drug business. He later receives a phone call from an unknown man who reveals himself to be Toreno, who had sent another man as a decoy during the supposed interruption of his chopper. Carl begins to work for the government agent and his work is rewarded, as Toreno helps secure the release of Sweet, who is paroled after an extremely dangerous assault on property belonging to Naval authorities and spy agencies stationed in the area across the state makes headlines.

Release from prison

Sweet meeting Carl Johnson in Pershing Square after being released from prison, during Home Coming.

Carl tells Sweet of his and Kendl's new life in San Fierro and Las Venturas, trying to convince him to move away from Los Santos. Sweet, however, insists on returning to Ganton and, upon their return, they re-take control of the area. Sweet then accompanies Carl as the two re-take Glen Park and rescue Big Bear from the clutches of drug dealer B Dup, with Sweet taking him to rehab. Carl is then instructed to take control of Idlewood, one of the districts neighboring Ganton.

During this time, Tenpenny is arrested and put on trial. He is, however, found not guilty and released from prison, resulting in riots across Los Santos' poorer districts. Sweet, who had joined Carl, Kendl, Cesar, aging countryside hippie The Truth, British musician Maccer and formerly disgraced rapper and Carl's managerial client Madd Dogg at the rapper's mansion, is then driven home by Carl. Sweet then begins to think about ending the war between the Grove Street Families and the Ballas, but allows Carl to help Cesar and the Varrios Los Aztecas re-take the El Corona district, in order to repay his debt to Cesar, who too had been exiled just after Carl in the past.

Final showdown

Sweet, Carl Johnson, Cesar Vialpando and Kendl Johnson witnessing the last moments of Frank Tenpenny in Grove Street, during End of the Line.

Shortly afterwards, the two brothers decide to take on the Ballas, stop their drug manufacturing business and kill Smoke for his betrayal. Sweet initially plans to join his brother, but Carl persuades him to wait it out while he takes care of it personally. Carl manages a magnificent break into the manufacturing plant and manages to kill not only Smoke, but the countless Ballas, Los Santos Vagos and Russian Mafia gangsters attempting to gun him down on his way to the top. After killing Smoke, Carl, however, is interrupted by Tenpenny, who sets some of the machinery on fire. Luckily, Carl manages to escape the building in time to see Tenpenny escape in a fire truck.

Sweet, who has been watching outside the entire time, quickly notices Tenpenny's escape and grabs hold of one of the truck's ladders. Carl then drives after his brother in an open-top Feltzer, which Sweet eventually drops into and the two give chase, fending off the police along the way. The two continue to chase Tenpenny until he crashes his fire truck, which goes over a bridge and falls into Grove Street. Sweet and Carl, along with Kendl, Cesar and The Truth, watch as Tenpenny dies after climbing out from the truck's cabin. The five then return to the Johnson House and are joined by disbarred former lawyer and Dogg's accountant Ken Rosenberg, Maccer and record producer Kent Paul as they celebrate their success.

Trivia

  • In replay mode, Sweet, along with Smoke and Ryder, appears as a pedestrian character model.
  • The license plate on Sweet's Greenwood is GROVE4L.
  • Sweet's Greenwood is destroyed during the mission Reuniting the Families after being driven through a Sprunk advertising board and falling on to a highway before exploding. Sweet later purchases another blue Greenwood telling Carl that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
  • Sweet, despite being against the sale of hard drugs, almost uses cocaine in the mission Beat Down on B Dup, although Carl intervenes.
  • Sweet's dislike for Carl, prior to his return to Los Santos, is seen during The Introduction where he states that Carl 'has his own life, more than he deserves' and that he "can rot in hell for all I give a fuck".
  • Sweet's favorite radio stations are Bounce FM and CSR 103.9.
  • During his imprisonment, Sweet was taken 'upstate' and placed in D-wing cell 13 according to Mike Toreno in the mission Interdiction. The prisoner in the cell to the left was a child killer who wanted to rip his throat out and on the right a white supremacist who wanted to eat his heart.
Sweet's character model, with Ryder and Big Smoke, as seen during replay mode during Drive-By.

Mission appearances

GTA San Andreas
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