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'''Niko Bellic''' (Serbian: Нико Белић, ''Niko Belić'') is the main [[protagonist]] of [[Grand Theft Auto IV]]. He is 30 years old, and grew up in the Balkan country of Yugoslavia in Eastern Europe, where he fought in the [[wp:Yugoslav Wars|Yugoslav Wars]]. [[Michael Hollick]] (main), Sam Glen, [[Bas Rutten]], Amir Perrets and Mario D’Leon (the main voice/motion capture actor of [[Luis Fernando Lopez]]) performs Niko’s motion capture. | '''Niko Bellic''' (Serbian: Нико Белић, ''Niko Belić'') is the main [[protagonist]] of [[Grand Theft Auto IV]]. He is 30 years old, and grew up in the Balkan country of Yugoslavia in Eastern Europe, where he fought in the [[wp:Yugoslav Wars|Yugoslav Wars]]. [[Michael Hollick]] (main), Sam Glen, [[Bas Rutten]], Amir Perrets and Mario D’Leon (the main voice/motion capture actor of [[Luis Fernando Lopez]]) performs Niko’s motion capture. | ||
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===Post-war life=== | ===Post-war life=== | ||
Work was hard to come by following the war. Niko's cousin, [[Roman]], had already moved to [[America]] to start a new life in Liberty City; Niko spent the next decade working in the European criminal underworld, leading to a brief period of incarceration. After been released from prison, he began working for a human trafficking ring led by [[Ray Bulgarin]]; when a boat involved in the operation sank in the Adriatic during a smuggling run into Italy, Niko swam to safety, but everything and everyone else was lost. Bulgarin believed that Niko had intentionally scuttled the ship and stole his money; the gangster's reach was too great within Europe, so Niko joined the merchant navy to escape Bulgarin's influence. | Work was hard to come by following the war. Niko's cousin, [[Roman]], had already moved to [[America]] to start a new life in Liberty City; Niko spent the next decade working in the European criminal underworld, leading to a brief period of incarceration. After been released from prison, he began working for a human trafficking ring led by [[Ray Bulgarin]]; when a boat involved in the operation sank in the Adriatic during a smuggling run into Italy, Niko swam to safety, but everything and everyone else was lost. Bulgarin believed that Niko had intentionally scuttled the ship and stole his money; the gangster's reach was too great within Europe, so Niko joined the merchant navy to escape Bulgarin's influence. | ||
===Life in Liberty City=== | ===Life in Liberty City=== | ||
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==Personality== | ==Personality== | ||
Niko is very protective of his family and loved ones, particularly his cousin Roman, despite Roman's indiscreet nature frequently getting the pair into trouble. He is withdrawn among strangers, but has good manners, and shows a softer side with love interests like [[Kate McReary]] and [[Michelle]]; that said, the horrors of war, both witnessed and perpetrated by Niko, have given him a great sense of guilt, and an ambivalence about the value of human life — he warns away pursuers and expresses regret over his past violence, but also feels that killing is all that he can do, readily taking on jobs which necessarily involve murder. He has an explosive temper when he is betrayed, manipulated, or his loyalty is questioned, but he is also quick to help the defenseless and unfortunate, even [[Random Characters|those he merely meets in passing]]; he apparently possesses a sense of idealism which was wounded by his wartime experiences. Unfortunately, such a split attitude leads to hypocrisy — Niko, for example, appears to genuinely sympathize with the [[McReary]]s' grief over the demise of one of their brothers, despite having secretly committed that murder himself. | |||
Niko's bitterness at the murder of his friends during the war has consumed him, and he is unable to let it go, taking on several highly dangerous jobs merely to enable his quest for vengeance. Several of his friends, most notably Roman, urge him to find a new reason to live, but it is only after Niko finally has the opportunity for revenge that the player may choose for him to take it, or let it go. | Niko's bitterness at the murder of his friends during the war has consumed him, and he is unable to let it go, taking on several highly dangerous jobs merely to enable his quest for vengeance. Several of his friends, most notably Roman, urge him to find a new reason to live, but it is only after Niko finally has the opportunity for revenge that the player may choose for him to take it, or let it go. | ||
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Niko almost always refuses alcohol when being invited (he asks for water in the mission [[Ivan The Not So Terrible]]) except for the mission [[The Holland Play]] where [[Playboy X]] pours him a glass but immediately before taking a sip, Niko changes his mind and puts the glass on a table. There is a scene where Niko does drink a glass of Vodka (on the rocks) in the mission [[One Last Thing]] while talking to Jimmy Pegorino. It seems he doesn't want to drink alcohol, because it will impair him when on a mission. | Niko almost always refuses alcohol when being invited (he asks for water in the mission [[Ivan The Not So Terrible]]) except for the mission [[The Holland Play]] where [[Playboy X]] pours him a glass but immediately before taking a sip, Niko changes his mind and puts the glass on a table. There is a scene where Niko does drink a glass of Vodka (on the rocks) in the mission [[One Last Thing]] while talking to Jimmy Pegorino. It seems he doesn't want to drink alcohol, because it will impair him when on a mission. | ||
==LCPD Database record== | ==LCPD Database record== | ||
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*Recent immigrant to Liberty City from Eastern Europe | *Recent immigrant to Liberty City from Eastern Europe | ||
*Appears to be avoiding allegiance to one particular criminal organization. | *Appears to be avoiding allegiance to one particular criminal organization. | ||
== Naming and language errors == | |||
"Niko" means "Nobody" in the Serbian and Bosnian language. The surname "Bellic" would not exist in the Serbian, Bosnian or Croatian languages, as these do not allow consecutive consonants (ie, the double-L in "Bellic"); "Bellic" is also pronounced with a hard 'c' ("bel-lik") throughout the game — Niko himself uses the incorrect pronunciation when introducing himself to the receptionist at Goldberg, Ligner and Shyster in the mission [[Final Interview]]. A proper pronunciation would use a hard 'ch' (as used in-game with the names "[[Darko Brevic]]" and "[[Florian Cravic]]"); a more authentic rendering of Niko's surname would be ''Belić''. At one point, Florian, speaking in his native Serbian, pronounces the name correctly; "Bellic" may simply be an Anglicized version of "Belić". | |||
The first name "Niko" is distinctively Croatian, rather than Serbian — the Serbian equivalent would be "Nikola". In the mission Final Interview, Tom Goldberg refers to Niko as "Nikolai", although this is an assumption on his part — he begins their interview by saying, "Hello Niko; what's that short for? Nikolai?" Niko does not respond and no one else calls him "Nikolai" in the game. | |||
Niko's voice actor, Michael Hollick, is American, and the accent he assumes for Niko is not a Serbian one; Niko's spoken Serbian is frequently mispronounced or wrongly emphasized. | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
[[File:NikoBellic-GTAIV2.jpg|thumb|Sasha and Niko comparison.]] | [[File:NikoBellic-GTAIV2.jpg|thumb|300px|Sasha and Niko comparison.]] | ||
*There are rumours that Niko's father's name is Drago Bellic, that he was a general during the Bosnian wars, and was eventually killed in the warfield. | *There are rumours that Niko's father's name is Drago Bellic, that he was a general during the Bosnian wars, and was eventually killed in the warfield. | ||
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*In a conversation with [[Manny Escuela]] during [[Escuela of the Streets]], he claims that he stalked a woman in Europe. It's possible he was being sarcastic, giver his annoyance with Manny. | *In a conversation with [[Manny Escuela]] during [[Escuela of the Streets]], he claims that he stalked a woman in Europe. It's possible he was being sarcastic, giver his annoyance with Manny. | ||
*He possibly smokes, as when you watch TV in [[Playboy X's Penthouse]], when you are done, there is smoke in the asher, there was none before. | *He possibly smokes, as when you watch TV in [[Playboy X's Penthouse]], when you are done, there is smoke in the asher, there was none before. | ||
== Gallery == | |||
{| align="center" | |||
|<gallery width="auto" perrow="6" style="font-size:95%; padding:0;" widths="120"> | |||
NikoBellic-Artwork.jpg|Early game art of Niko Bellic, with the later removed fingerless gloves visible. The track jacket features a slightly different design. | |||
gta4-niko-bellic1.jpg|Niko Bellic in a similar drab featured commonly in later promotional materials, as well as GTA IV's box art. The turtleneck sweater is depicted as red instead of gray in game. | |||
</gallery> | |||
|} | |||
==Appearances== | |||
;GTA IV | |||
*As the protagonist. | |||
;The Lost and Damned | |||
*[[Clean and Serene]] | |||
*[[Buyer's Market]] | |||
*[[Collector's Item]] | |||
*[[Credits (TLAD)]] | |||
*[[Knowing Me, Knowing You]] <small>(Voice only) </small> | |||
;The Ballad of Gay Tony | |||
*[[I Luv LC]] | |||
*[[Not So Fast]] | |||
*[[Ladies Half Price]] | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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[[ru:Нико Беллик]] | [[ru:Нико Беллик]] | ||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellic, Niko}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Bellic, Niko}} | ||
[[Category:Characters in GTA IV|Bellic, Niko]] | [[Category:Characters in GTA IV|Bellic, Niko]] | ||