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{{infobox character|
|name        = Avery Carrington
|image = AveryCarrington-GTAVC.jpg
|image       = Avery carrington.jpg
|game_1 = GTA Vice City
|games        = [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]
|game_2 = GTA Liberty City Stories
|aka         =  
|name = Avery Carrington
|dob         =
|aka =  
|dod          = [[1998]]
|status = Deceased
|pob         = Texas
|gender = M
|pod          = [[Liberty City]]
|dob =  
|home         = [[Washington Beach]], [[Vice City]]
|dob-comment =  
|nationality = [[United States of America|American]]
|pob = Texas
|affiliations = [[Tommy Vercetti]]<br>[[Donald Love]]<br>[[Ken Rosenberg]]
|dod = 1998
|vehicles     = Black [[Strech]]
|dod-comment = <br />(<small>during [[Panlantic Land Grab]]</small>)
|businesses   = Real Estate
|home = [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]]
|voice       = [[Burt Reynolds]]
|nationality = United States
|family =
|affiliations = [[Donald Love]] (<small>until [[1998]]</small>)<br />[[Ken Rosenberg]]<br />[[Tommy Vercetti]] (<small>from [[1986]]</small>)<br />[[Vercetti Gang]] (<small>from [[1986]]</small>)<br />[[Colombian Cartel]] (<small>until [[1998]]</small>)
|vehicles = Black [[Stretch]]<br />White [[Bobcat]]
|businesses =
|occupation = Real estate developer
|voice = [[Burt Reynolds]]<br />(<small>GTA Vice City</small>)
}}
}}
{{quote|Nothing brings down real estate prices like a good old fashioned gang war.|Avery to Tommy Vercetti.}}
{{also|''Avery' redirects here. For the construction company see [[Avery Construction]]. For his rival, see [[Avery Carrington's Rival]]''.}}
'''Avery Carrington''' is a character in the [[3D Universe]] who appears as a major character in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] and a minor character in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]. A billboard of Avery Carrington also appears in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] and he is mentioned on the [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]] [http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecitystories website]. Carrington is an extreme capitalist property magnate and real estate mogul based in [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]]. He is voiced by [[Burt Reynolds]] in GTA Vice City.


'''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>
==Character history==
===Up to 1986===
Avery Carrington was born and raised in Texas and later moved to [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]], becoming, at some point, a successful property magnate and real estate mogul to his willingness to use any tactic (including gang warfare, arson, intimidation, murder and demolishing opponents buildings). Avery is heavily influenced by his father and takes on a protégé, [[Donald Love]], passing on his knowledge, which Love would later [[Waka-Gashira Wipeout!|use]] to his own [[Panlantic Land Grab|advantage]].


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:
In [[1986]] he is financing the [[Avery's Construction Site|construction of a building]] in [[Vice Point]] and is one of Vice City's social elite, attending Colonel [[Juan Cortez|Juan Cortez']] [[The Party|party]]. Carrington, however, faces problems from the [[Spand Express]] company, who refuse to sell their land, and another further advanced construction site opposite his own. [[Ken Rosenberg]], a [[K. Rosenberg & Co.|lawyer]] introduces Carrington to [[Tommy Vercetti]], who helps to Spand Express by causing a [[Riot (GTA VC)|riot]] and destroying three Spand Express vans. Carrington, impressed with Vercetti's ability, later hires him to [[Four Iron|murder]] [[Avery Carrington's Rival|a man who refuses to sell some land to Carrington]] and to [[Demolition Man|structurally weaken]] the construction site located opposite his own. Carrington continues with his business before asking Vercetti for help again, this time having him [[Two Bit Hit|spark a gang war]] between the [[Cubans]] and the [[Haitians]] in order to drive down property prices, and later gives Vercetti [[Shakedown (GTA VC)|advice]] in how to build his criminal empire in the city following the [[Rub Out|death]] of drug baron [[Ricardo Diaz]].


"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."
===Last years===
Avery Carrington continued to expand his business, appearing on a neon sign in [[Las Venturas]], [[San Andreas in GTA III Era|San Andreas]] in [[1992]]. He continues in his work and in [[1998]] he flies to [[Francis International Airport in GTA III Era|Francis International Airport]] to meet with the [[Colombian Cartel]] to discuss plans to develop the [[Fort Staunton]] area of [[Staunton Island]], [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]]. Carrington's old protégé, [[Donald Love]], hears of his impending return and hires [[Toni Cipriani]] to [[Panlantic Land Grab|kill]] Carrington to acquire his real estate plans, as the [[Panlantic Construction Company|Panlantic Corporation]] who do 'anything to get prime real estate'. Toni Cipriani later [[Morgue Party Resurrection|steals]] Carrington's body for Love, who eats the body on his [[Love on the Run|flight away]] from Liberty City.


[[Image:Avery Construction.jpg|left|thumb|Avery Construction in Blueberry, Red County, San Andreas.]]
==Mission appearances==
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>
;GTA Vice City
*[[The Party]]
*[[Riot (GTA VC)|Riot]]
*[[Four Iron]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Demolition Man]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Two Bit Hit]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Shakedown (GTA VC)|Shakedown]]


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]].
;GTA Liberty City Stories
*[[Panlantic Land Grab]] <small>(Killed)</small>
*[[Morgue Party Resurrection]] <small>(Deceased)</small>


[[Image:Avery CarringtonArt.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Avery Carrington artwork from ''Vice City'']]
== VCBI record ==
Avery Carrington was voiced by [[Burt Reynolds]].<ref name="Burt Reynolds">{{cite web | url = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000608/ | title = Burt Reynolds IMDB Entry | work = IMDB | accessdate = October 16 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>
The [[Vice City Bureau of Investigation]] has a file on Carrington<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Vice City Crime Tree | work = [[Rockstar Games]] }} official GTA Vice City website</ref>:
* Texan property magnate and real estate developer.
* Likes to talk about his father. The good old days.
* Extreme Capitalist.
* Suspected of doing anything to manipulate property prices and land value, including, but not limited to, arson, rioting, bribery, intimidation, murder.
* Always wears cowboy hat.
* Believed to be involved in several developments and slum-clearance programs.
* Known guest of Cortez.
* Uses Ken Rosenberg for legal advice - possible weak link?
* Hair suspected to be fake.


==GTA Vice City Missions Appearances==
==Gallery==
* [[The Party]]
{| align="center"
* [[Riot (GTA VC)|Riot]]
|<gallery width="auto" perrow="4" style="font-size:95%; padding:0;" widths="160">
* [[Four Iron]] (Boss)
File:AveryCarrington-GTAVC-artwork.jpg|Concept artwork of Avery Carrington in GTA Vice City.
* [[Demolition Man]] (Boss)
File:AveryCarrington-GTASA-neonsign.jpg|Avery Carrington neon sign in the [[Old Venturas Strip]], [[Las Venturas]] in GTA San Andreas, imitating [[:wp:Vegas Vic|Vegas Vic]]. The sign is illuminated in pink/purple at night.
* [[Two Bit Hit]] (Boss)
File:AveryCarrington-GTALCS.jpg|Avery Carrington, shortly before his death, in GTA Liberty City Stories, after arriving at [[Francis International Airport in GTA III Era|Francis International Airport]] in "[[Panlantic Land Grab]]".
* [[Shakedown (GTA VC)|Shakedown]]
</gallery>
|}


==GTA Liberty City Stories Mission Appearances==
==Trivia==
* [[Panlantic Land Grab]] (Killed)
[[File:AveryConstruction-GTASA-advert.jpg|right|thumb|250px|"Avery Construction" in Blueberry, Red County, San Andreas.]]
*Avery Carrington wears a wig, as hinted on the [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]] [http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecitystories website], in the mission [[Morgue Party Resurrection]] in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]] and in the mission [[Riot (GTA VC)|Riot]] in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]].
*Avery Carrington may also have been involved with the company [[Avery Construction]], a property development company working in [[Blueberry]], [[Red County]], [[San Andreas in GTA III Era|San Andreas]].
*He owns the [[Shady Acres]] company and its advertisement can be heard on [[Emotion 98.3]].
*He doesn't seem to have aged from 1986 (GTA Vice City) to 1998 (GTA Liberty City Stories), although Donald Love states that he has aged very much since they last met.
*On [[Rockstar North|Rockstar North's]] website, a concept art shows that Avery's nickname is Tex<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstarnorth.com/flashSite/theLab/character/avery/001.html | title = Avery Character Sketch 01 | work = [[Rockstar North]] }} official Rockstar North website</ref>. It is a reference to the famous animator/cartoon director [[:wp:Tex Avery|Tex Avery]]. Both of them were born in Texas however it is never used or mentioned in GTA Vice City, except in game files.
*Deleted phone call dialogue suggests Tommy was originally supposed to get another phone call, possibly with another mission. It never made it into the final game for unknown reasons.<ref>From american.gxt:<br>
''On the phone''<br>
'''Avery Carrington''': Hey Tommy, it's Avery! Now listen, I got me all tied up at the moment and I have a representative of mine needs chaperoning out to the Gator Keys. I'm after some land out that way, so I'm sending someone out to sweeten the deal. Could you do me a favor and make sure he gets there ok?<br>
'''Tommy Vercetti''': Yeah, sure thing Avery. Where'd you want me to pick him up?<br>
'''Avery Carrington''': He's just finishing some business at the building site. I said you'd pick him up from there.<br>
'''Tommy Vercetti''': No problem. See you later, Avery.</ref>


==References==
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Latest revision as of 12:58, 8 May 2014

Character
Avery Carrington
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Appearances GTA Vice City
GTA Liberty City Stories
Full Name Avery Carrington
Status

Deceased

Gender Gender::Male
Place of Birth Texas
Date of Death 1998
(during Panlantic Land Grab)
Nationality American
Home Vice City
Main Affiliations Donald Love (until 1998)
Ken Rosenberg
Tommy Vercetti (from 1986)
Vercetti Gang (from 1986)
Colombian Cartel (until 1998)
Vehicles Black Stretch
White Bobcat
Occupation Real estate developer
Voiced by Burt Reynolds
(GTA Vice City)
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Nothing brings down real estate prices like a good old fashioned gang war.

Avery to Tommy Vercetti.

Avery' redirects here. For the construction company see Avery Construction. For his rival, see Avery Carrington's Rival.

Avery Carrington is a character in the 3D Universe who appears as a major character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. A billboard of Avery Carrington also appears in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and he is mentioned on the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories website. Carrington is an extreme capitalist property magnate and real estate mogul based in Vice City. He is voiced by Burt Reynolds in GTA Vice City.

Character history

Up to 1986

Avery Carrington was born and raised in Texas and later moved to Vice City, becoming, at some point, a successful property magnate and real estate mogul to his willingness to use any tactic (including gang warfare, arson, intimidation, murder and demolishing opponents buildings). Avery is heavily influenced by his father and takes on a protégé, Donald Love, passing on his knowledge, which Love would later use to his own advantage.

In 1986 he is financing the construction of a building in Vice Point and is one of Vice City's social elite, attending Colonel Juan Cortez' party. Carrington, however, faces problems from the Spand Express company, who refuse to sell their land, and another further advanced construction site opposite his own. Ken Rosenberg, a lawyer introduces Carrington to Tommy Vercetti, who helps to Spand Express by causing a riot and destroying three Spand Express vans. Carrington, impressed with Vercetti's ability, later hires him to murder a man who refuses to sell some land to Carrington and to structurally weaken the construction site located opposite his own. Carrington continues with his business before asking Vercetti for help again, this time having him spark a gang war between the Cubans and the Haitians in order to drive down property prices, and later gives Vercetti advice in how to build his criminal empire in the city following the death of drug baron Ricardo Diaz.

Last years

Avery Carrington continued to expand his business, appearing on a neon sign in Las Venturas, San Andreas in 1992. He continues in his work and in 1998 he flies to Francis International Airport to meet with the Colombian Cartel to discuss plans to develop the Fort Staunton area of Staunton Island, Liberty City. Carrington's old protégé, Donald Love, hears of his impending return and hires Toni Cipriani to kill Carrington to acquire his real estate plans, as the Panlantic Corporation who do 'anything to get prime real estate'. Toni Cipriani later steals Carrington's body for Love, who eats the body on his flight away from Liberty City.

Mission appearances

GTA Vice City
GTA Liberty City Stories

VCBI record

The Vice City Bureau of Investigation has a file on Carrington[1]:

  • Texan property magnate and real estate developer.
  • Likes to talk about his father. The good old days.
  • Extreme Capitalist.
  • Suspected of doing anything to manipulate property prices and land value, including, but not limited to, arson, rioting, bribery, intimidation, murder.
  • Always wears cowboy hat.
  • Believed to be involved in several developments and slum-clearance programs.
  • Known guest of Cortez.
  • Uses Ken Rosenberg for legal advice - possible weak link?
  • Hair suspected to be fake.

Gallery

Trivia

"Avery Construction" in Blueberry, Red County, San Andreas.

References

  1. ↑ Vice City Crime Tree. Rockstar Games. official GTA Vice City website
  2. ↑ Avery Character Sketch 01. Rockstar North. official Rockstar North website
  3. ↑ From american.gxt:
    On the phone
    Avery Carrington: Hey Tommy, it's Avery! Now listen, I got me all tied up at the moment and I have a representative of mine needs chaperoning out to the Gator Keys. I'm after some land out that way, so I'm sending someone out to sweeten the deal. Could you do me a favor and make sure he gets there ok?
    Tommy Vercetti: Yeah, sure thing Avery. Where'd you want me to pick him up?
    Avery Carrington: He's just finishing some business at the building site. I said you'd pick him up from there.
    Tommy Vercetti: No problem. See you later, Avery.
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