Avery Carrington: Difference between revisions

'''Avery Carrington''' is a successful Texan property magnate, real estate mogul and extreme capitalist.<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref> He enjoys quoting his father<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref><ref name="Avery's father">'''Avery Carrington''': "Hell, my daddy used to say, never look a gift horse in the mouth, and by golly, he never did." (from the [[Four Iron]] mission)</ref> and using old-western euphemisms. He is willing to do anything to manipulate property prices and land value<ref name="Demolition">'''Avery Carrington''': "No, I was thinking more of your demolition skills." (from the [[Demolition Man]] mission)</ref><ref name="Gang War">'''Avery Carrington''': "Now, nothing brings down real estate prices quicker than a good old-fashioned gang war 'cept maybe a disaster, like a biblical plague or something, but, that may be going too far in this case. You getting this down, you four-eyed prick? Now recently a Haitian gang lord died. Apparently the Cubans did it, nobody's certain. But let's make them certain!." (from the [[Two Bit Hit]] mission)</ref>, including arson<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>, rioting<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref><ref name="Rioting">'''Avery Carrington''': "Head on down there and stir up the hornet's nest - the security will have their hands full and then you can sneak in and put 'em out of business." (from the [[Riot]] mission)</ref>, bribery<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>, intimidation<ref name="Intimidation">'''Avery Carrington''': "Well, I need some tenacious bastard to let go of some dirt, and you look to me like the kind of guy to persuade him."<br>'''Tommy Vercetti''': Persuasion's my forte."<br>'''Avery Carrington''': Yeh, he'll be down at the country club, down on the golf course. They don't allow guns, so his bodyguards won't be packing lawgivers. Go beat eight tons of crap out of him." (from the [[Riot]] mission)</ref>, and murder.<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref> He always wears a cowboy hat<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref> and rides in a black [[Stretch|limousine]]. Carrington has been suspected by the police to be wearing a wig<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>, although this is only explicitly revealed in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]].<ref name="Wig">'''Avery Carrington''': "Oh, Avery! How you've aged since we last met... you used to feed me such pearls of wisdom... and soon I shall dine again!... My God! He's wearing a wig!" (from the [[Morgue Party Resurrection]] mission)</ref> The official [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]] website appears to reference this trivia as well.<ref name="MeTV">'''Avery Carrington''': "Tommy, this is Donald Love. Donald, this here is Tommy Vercetti, the latest gunslinger to come to these parts."<br>'''[[Jenny Mitchell]]''': "Only last week, a popular local real estate entrepreneur had his wig blown off by a run away chopper." (from a [[MeTV|MeTV News]] segment on the official Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories website)</ref>

Carrington is believed to be behind many lucrative development plans and responsible for violent slum-clearances.<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref> However he is careful to be out of town on business when any violence arises.<ref name="Out Town">'''Avery Carrington''': "Now I'm going to head out of town for a while and if that office development were to face sudden and insurmountable structural problems..." (from the [[Demolition Man]] mission)</ref> He is a frequent guest at [[Juan Cortez|Colonel Cortez']] parties<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>; he is also [[Ken Rosenberg|Ken Rosenberg's]] biggest client<ref name="Avery Info">{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Grand Theft Auto: Vice City official website| work = [[Rockstar Games]] | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>, which is how he comes into acquaintance with [[Tommy Vercetti]].<ref name="Tommy">'''Ken Rosenberg''': "Tommy, this is Avery Carrington - I believe you met at [[The Party|the party]]?" (from the [[Riot]] mission)</ref> Carrington has an apprentice, [[Donald Love]]<ref name="Donald Love">'''Avery Carrington''': "Tommy, this is Donald Love. Donald, this here is Tommy Vercetti, the latest gunslinger to come to these parts."<br>'''Donald Love''': "Yeh...uh..."<br>'''Avery Carrington''': "Donald, you just shut up and listen, and you might learn something." (from the [[Two Bit Hit]] mission)</ref> who is a major character in [[Grand Theft Auto III]] and in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]] as a corrupt business tycoon. Carrington taking Love under his wing and teaching him about real estate explains Love's ruthlessness in later games. It is also from Avery that Donald is believe to have learnt a quote that has been repeated in almost the same manner in GTA III:

"Now, nothing brings down real estate prices quicker than a good old-fashioned gang war, 'cept maybe a disaster, like a biblical plague or something, but, that may be going too far in this case."

In [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], Carrington is also featured as a billboard resembling Vegas Vic in [[Las Venturas]]. Carrington reprises his role Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, only to be killed by the [[Toni Cipriani|player]] during his one cameo (under orders of his old protégé, Donald Love).<ref name="Donald Love2">'''Donald Love''': "Toni, my ex-mentor, Avery Carrington, is flying into town today... It's come to my attention that he's working for the [[Panlantic Construction Company|Panlantic Corporation]]. They'll do anything to get prime real estate. We HAVE to get hold of his plans to acquire land... There he is! Kill him Toni!" (from the [[Panlantic Land Grab]] mission)</ref>

Avery may also be involved with the company [[Avery Construction]], a property developer working in the town of [[Blueberry]] in [[Red County]], [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]].