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{{infobox character|
{{infobox character|
|image =BigSmoke-GTASA.jpg
|image =Sweet-GTASA.jpg
|game_1 = GTA San Andreas
|game_1 = GTA San Andreas
|name = Melvin Harris
|name = Sean Johnson
|aka = Big Smoke<br />Smoke
|aka = Sweet
|status = Deceased
|status = Alive
|gender =
|gender =
|dob =  
|dob =  
|pob = [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]
|pob = [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]
|dod = 1992
|dod =
|dod-comment = (<small>during [[End of the Line]]</small>)
|home = [[Johnson House]] and [[Sweet's House]] in [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]
|home = [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]<br />[[Big Smoke's House]] in [[Idlewood]], [[Los Santos in III Era|Los Santos]]<br />[[Big Smoke's Crack Palace]]
|nationality = American
|nationality = United States
|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>
|family =
|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]]
|affiliations = [[Grove Street Families]]<br />[[Sweet]]<br />[[Carl Johnson]]<br />[[Ryder]]<br />[[OG Loc]]<br />[[Big Bear]]<br />[[B Dup]]<br />[[C.R.A.S.H.]]<br />[[Ballas]]<br />[[Los Santos Vagos]]<br />[[Russian Mafia]]<br />[[San Fierro Rifa]]<br />[[Loco Syndicate]]
|vehicles = [[Greenwood]]
|vehicles = Black [[Perennial]]<br />Blue [[Glendale]]
|businesses =
|businesses =  
|voice = [[Faizon Love]]
|voice = [[Clifton Powell]]
}}
}}
{{also|''This article is about the character. For the mission in GTA San Andreas, see [[Big Smoke (mission)]]''}}
'''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''.
'''Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris''', better known simply as '''Smoke''', is a character in the [[3D Universe]] who appears as a secondary antagonist in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] (set in [[1992]]). A high ranking member of the [[Grove Street Families]] who later joined forces with the [[Ballas]], [[Los Santos Vagos]] and [[Russian Mafia]], becoming the biggest criminal in the underworld of [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]], he is voiced by [[Clifton Powell]], who has also appeared in ''Menace II Society''.


==Character history==
==Character history==
{{spoiler}}
===Early life===
===Background===
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]].
Smoke was born in [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]], and grew up on the Grove Street cul-de-sac in [[Ganton]] next door to gang-leading Johnson brothers [[Sweet|Sean "Sweet" Johnson]], [[Brian Johnson|Brian Johnson]] and [[Carl Johnson|Carl "CJ" Johnson]], who he was friends with, as well as friends [[Ryder|Lance "Ryder" Wilson]] and [[OG Loc|Jeffrey "OG Loc" Cross]]. He and his childhood friends were founding members of [[Grove Street Families]]. Brian somehow died in 1987 with Carl's negligence to blame, and Carl left for [[Liberty City]].  
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Eventually, the Grove Street Families went downhill over the next five years. Smoke tried to convince Sweet to let the gang sell crack cocaine, though Sweet was vehemently opposed to it. Smoke began to secretly sell it under the guidance of corrupt [[C.R.A.S.H.]] officer [[Frank Tenpenny]], which saw him secretly work with the [[Ballas]], the gang's sworn rivals. Smoke made enough money to buy a [[Big Smoke's House|new house]] and a vintage black [[Perennial]], which he [[Drive-Thru|told Carl he paid for with an inheritance from his dead aunt]]. Smoke's old house on Grove Street, next door to the Johnson residence, was still used as a regular hangout. Before long, Smoke is supplied large amounts of cocaine by the [[Loco Syndicate]] from [[San Fierro]], although he doesn't know of a top secret [[Mike Toreno|government agent]]'s involvement in the transactions.
===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.


Smoke later let Ryder in on his secret dealings in 1992. Over the week, Tenpenny organized a hit on Sweet - the assassins, a few Ballas behind the wheel of a green [[Sabre]], sprayed the Johnson residence with machine gun fire but accidentally killed Sweet's mother [[Beverly Johnson]] instead. Carl is forced to return to Los Santos for the funeral, which is when the actual storyline begins.
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.


===Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas===
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.
====Gang Activity====
Smoke is the first to welcome Carl home, and brings him to the funeral to meet Sweet, Ryder and Carl's sister [[Kendl Johnson]]. However, while Smoke welcomes Carl back with open arms, as does Kendl, Sweet and Ryder remain bitter about Brian's death. The funeral is attacked by Ballas in a purple [[Voodoo]], which the four of them escape on [[Bicycle|bicycles]]. Smoke's Perennial is destroyed in the process, which he promptly replaces with a teal [[Glendale]]. A week or two later, when the four of them are at a fast-food [[Drive Thru|drive-thru]], they are targeted by the hitmen from the same Ballas set, in a congruent Voodoo. Sweet, Carl and Ryder kill them with no help from Smoke, who instead continued eating his meal. The rest of the gang is angry at him, though he passes it off as a simple personal eccentricity and it's more or less forgotten.


[[File:LosSantosVagos-GTASA-attacked.jpg|thumb|left|Big Smoke making contact with a Vagos member's head using a [[baseball bat]].]]
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.


Carl helps Smoke outside of official gang business, which is when he first begins to suspect Smoke is concealing his true allegiance. Amongst the many instances when he helps him, two incidents in particular, namely a [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|chase for a train]] full of [[Los Santos Vagos]] enroute to meet the [[San Fierro Rifa]], and a [[Just Business|large shootout]] with the [[Russian Mafia]], peak Carl's curiosity while Smoke is reluctant to answer his questions.
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]].


Eventually, the Grove Street Families regain the influence they had in the mid-1980s. Carl proves to be a great asset to the gang, which earns him Sweet's respect back. At their peak, they plan to [[Reuniting the Families|balance terms]] with their former ally sets, the Seville Boulevard and Temple Drive Families, though their meeting at the [[Jefferson Motel]] is stormed by [[S.W.A.T.]] teams. Smoke and Ryder urge Carl to flee the scene with them, though Carl insists on saving Sweet. When Carl reaches Sweet, he first expresses distrust in Smoke and Ryder, claiming them to have ditched the brothers. However, Smoke and Ryder actually return to Sweet and Carl's aid, and all four of them escape unharmed.
===Life during imprisonment===
[[File:Interdiction-GTASA.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[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 [[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]].


[[File:TheGreenSabre-GTASA2.png|right|thumb|250px|Big Smoke, [[Ryder]], [[Frank Tenpenny]] and [[Eddie Pulaski]] with the green [[Sabre]] used to kill [[Beverly Johnson]], as [[The Green Sabre|witnessed]] by [[Carl Johnson]] and [[Cesar Vialpando]], during [[The Green Sabre]].]]
===Release from prison===
Very soon after, the newly-united Families are on their way to attack the Ballas under the [[Mulholland Intersection]]. However, before Carl can join Sweet, Mexican-American [[Varrios Los Aztecas]] gang leader [[Cesar Vialpando]], Kendl's boyfriend, summons Carl to [[Verdant Bluffs]] where he witnesses Smoke, Ryder, Tenpenny, hot-headed C.R.A.S.H. officer [[Eddie Pulaski|Edward "Eddie" Pulaski]] and the Ballas conferring around the infamous [[Green Sabre]]. Carl rushes to save his brother, but ultimately fails - Sweet is shot and mended in a prison hospital, while Carl is abandoned in [[Whetstone]] by Tenpenny.
[[File:HomeComing-GTASA2.jpg|left|thumb|200px|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 [[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.


====Drug Baron====
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.
Feeling free to his own will, and no longer weighed down by the Johnson brothers, Smoke becomes the most powerful drug lord in [[Los Santos]]. Eventually, the Ballas, Vagos and Families disregard their gang ties and unilaterally work for him. Former high-raking Grove Street Families members Ryder and [[B Dup|Mark "B-Dup" Wayne]] both become wealthy in his employ, though Smoke does not trust Dup enough to make him a "lieutenant", so to speak, while Ryder serves as Smoke's right-hand man. [[King in Exile|Twice a week, Smoke takes in a backpack full of cocaine from dealers in San Fierro, and sends back money in a Patriot, in return]]. Loc has since become a successful rapper, and Smoke launders drug money by becoming his manager. Additionally, he takes on the public image of a benefactor to orphanages and anti-drug campaigns, further concealing his drug operation. Aside from his public charity appearances, he is extremely paranoid and rarely ventures out of a [[Big Smoke's Crack Palace|fortified apartment tower]] he owns in [[East Los Santos]]. He owns a white [[Feltzer]], with the custom license plate "IMY AK", but rarely gets to enjoy it because he is a shut-in.


Carl gets back on his feet in [[San Fierro]], destroys Smoke's affiliations to a drug cartel called the Loco Syndicate, and kills Ryder. Word of Ryder's death [[Yay Ka-Boom-Boom|runs wild in Los Santos, according to Cesar]], though Smoke is undeterred and finds a new supplier of raw cocaine, starting his own drug manufacturing plant in the fortified apartment. Carl later finds his way back to Los Santos, and manages to have Sweet [[Home Coming|freed]] from a supposedly unsurmountable life sentence, ironically by undercover government agent [[Mike Toreno|Michael "Mike" Toreno]] who organized the Loco Syndicate in the first place. Sweet and Carl build the Grove Street Families from the ground up a third time, while [[Cut Throat Business|Loc]] and [[Beat Down on B Dup|Dup]] are shaken down but left alive. As Tenpenny's acquittal for corruption hits national news, riots break out all over Los Santos. Carl and Sweet use this opportunity to gain even more turf, and Sweet eventually find a high-ranking Vagos member who spills Smoke's location to them.
===Final showdown===
[[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]].]]
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]].


====Death====
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:EndoftheLine-GTASA3.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Carl Johnson]] confronting Big Smoke in his [[Big Smoke's Crack Palace|drug manufacturing factory]], shortly before a shoot-out and Smoke's death, during [[End of the Line]].]]
Carl [[End of the Line|ventures into Smoke's apartment tower alone, in order to prove a point to himself and Sweet, and makes his way to Smoke's penthouse.]] Smoke is at first slow to respond to Carl. They then have a short argument, in which Smoke is somewhat jealous and resentful of Carl but relishes his own success. Carl attempts to rebate by stating Smoke had a family, but is interrupted by him as he says he can't care more. A clearly disappointed Carl asks Smoke what had gone wrong, to which Smoke replies by asking how it matters to Carl. He grabs a shotgun and aims it at Carl.
 
[[Image:EndoftheLine-GTASA9.png|left|thumb|250px|Carl listening to Big Smoke's final words.]]
After a shootout in his apartment, Carl manages to get five bullets through Smoke's body armor, flooring him besides his open safe and his spilled money. Carl tries one last time to reason with Smoke as he dies. Smoke grabs onto some of his money, and admits that he was attracted to the power and money and that he only saw an opportunity. Smoke's last words are filled with vanity, however, and he proclaims he will be remembered after his death. Carl somberly whispers to himself, lamenting Smoke's death, before he is confronted by Tenpenny. The apartment tower is burned down by Tenpenny, which causes the media to rule Smoke's death as an accident. After an epic car chase throughout Los Santos, using Smoke's white Feltzer, Carl and Sweet kill Tenpenny in a supposed accident as well.


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*Smoke drives a blue [[Glendale]], with a white roof, which has the license plate ''A2TMFK''. Opinions on the meaning of this are varied:
*In replay mode, Sweet, along with Smoke and [[Ryder]], appears as a pedestrian character model.
:Some believe it to be an acronym for 'a two-timing motherfucker', [[The Green Sabre|in reference to his betraying the Grove Street Families]].
*The license plate on Sweet's [[Greenwood]] is GROVE4L.
:Some believe it to be an acronym for 'a two-ton motherfucker', in reference to him being overweight.
*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".
:Some believe it to be a reference to the [[:wp:Cypress Hill|Cypress Hill]] song 'A to the Motherf*ckin K', which was released in [[1993]] (a year after GTA San Andreas).
*Sweet, despite being against the sale of hard drugs, almost uses cocaine in the mission [[Beat Down on B Dup]], although Carl intervenes.
*Smoke's favorite radio stations are [[Bounce FM]] and [[Radio Los Santos]].
*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".
*The beta version of Smoke is shown wearing a white jersey and black trousers, with Smoke having a bald head, which can be seen on the statute of Smoke in the [[Big Smoke's Crack Palace|drug manufacturing factory]] in [[East Los Santos in GTA III Era|East Los Santos]].
*Sweet's favorite radio stations are [[Bounce FM]] and [[CSR 103.9]].
*Smoke quotes the Bible on many occasions, hinting that he may be deeply religious, but it stands contradictory to his deeds.
*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.
*In replay mode, Smoke, along with [[Sweet]] and [[Ryder]], appears as a pedestrian character model. [[File:Replay-GTASA-Drive-By.png|thumb|right|Smoke's character model seen in replay mode during the mission [[Drive-By]].]]
*Smoke, like Ryder, continues to wear green clothing after his betrayal of the [[Grove Street Families]] becomes common knowledge, even despite Smoke having a separate character model depicting him wearing body armor. There are two reasons: one, Rockstar only had a single coded outfit for both since they were non-playable characters to begin with; two, it made sense for them to keep the Families bluffed into working for them.
*Smoke is shown to have five bullets in his chest following the shoot-out during [[End of the Line]], regardless of how he is killed.
*Smoke makes [[Nines and AKs|multiple references to his desire to be remembered following his death]].
*At the 26 second mark of [[Franklin Clinton]]'s GTA V character trailer, a man heavily resembling Smoke can be seen watching a stripper.


[[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==
==Mission appearances==
;GTA San Andreas
;GTA San Andreas
*[[The Introduction]]
*[[The Introduction]]
*[[Big Smoke (mission)|Big Smoke]] <small>'''(Start Point for the Game)'''</small>
*[[Sweet & Kendl]]
*[[Sweet & Kendl]]
*[[Tagging Up Turf]]
*[[Tagging Up Turf]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Cleaning the Hood]]
*[[Cleaning the Hood]] <small>'''(Boss, Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>
*[[Drive-Thru]]
*[[Drive-Thru]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Nines and AKs]]
*[[Nines and AKs]] <small>'''(Boss, Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>
*[[Drive-By]]
*[[OG Loc (mission)|OG Loc]]
*[[OG Loc (mission)|OG Loc]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Drive-By]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Running Dog]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Sweet's Girl]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Wrong Side of the Tracks]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Cesar Vialpando]] <small>'''(Boss, Pseudo-Boss)'''</small>
*[[Just Business]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Doberman]] <small>'''(Unseen Boss: Pre-mission Phone Call)'''</small>
*[[Reuniting the Families]]
*[[Los Sepulcros]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[The Green Sabre]]<small>'''(Betrayal)'''</small>
*[[House Party]] <small>'''(Pseudo-Boss, Co-Boss)'''</small>
*[[Loco Syndicate Drug Courier]] <small>'''(Cash Runs)'''</small>
*[[Reuniting the Families]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[End of the Line]] <small>'''(Killed)'''</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>
 
;Cut Mission
*[[Looking for Big Smoke]]


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:BigSmoke-GTASA-artwork.jpg|Artwork of Big Smoke.
File:Sweet-GTASA-artwork.jpg|Artwork of Sweet.
File:BigSmoke-GTASA-artwork2.jpg|Alternative artwork of Big Smoke depicting an unused model.
File:Sweet-GTASA-artwork2.jpg|Artwork of Sweet.
File:BigSmoke-GTASA2.jpg|The beta version of Smoke.
File:BeatDownonBDup-GTASA.jpg|Sweet being offered crack during [[Beat Down on B Dup]].
File:BigSmoke'sCrackPalace-GTASA-statue.jpg|The statued beta version of Smoke.
File:Big-Smoke-GTAV.jpg|Big Smoke lookalike in Franklin's character trailer.
</gallery>
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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.

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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
Cut Mission

Gallery

  • Artwork of Sweet.

    Artwork of Sweet.

  • Artwork of Sweet.

    Artwork of Sweet.

  • Sweet being offered crack during Beat Down on B Dup.

    Sweet being offered crack during Beat Down on B Dup.

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