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{{infobox character|
|name        = Avery Carrington
|image = AveryCarringtonGTAVC.jpg
|image       = GTALCS19.png
|games = [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]
|games       = [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]
|name = Avery Carrington
|gender       = M
|aka =
|pob         = Texas
|gender = M
|dod         = [[1998]], in [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]]
|dob =
|home         = [[Vice Point]], [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]]
|pob = Texas
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|dod = [[1998]]
|affiliations = [[Donald Love]]<br>[[Tommy Vercetti]]<br>[[Ken Rosenberg]]<br>[[Vercetti Gang]]<br>[[Colombian Cartel]]<br>[[Toni Cipriani]]
|home = [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]]
|vehicles     = Black [[Stretch]]<br>[[Bobcat]]
|nationality = [[United States|American]]
|businesses   = Real Estate, possibly [[Avery Construction]]
|family =
|voice       = [[Burt Reynolds]] (GTA: Vice City)
|affiliations = [[Donald Love]]<br>[[Ken Rosenberg]]<br>[[Tommy Vercetti]]<br>[[Vercetti Gang]]<br>[[Colombian Cartel]]
|vehicles = [[Stretch]]<br>[[Bobcat]]
|businesses = Real Estate<br>Construction
|voice = [[Burt Reynolds]] <small>(GTA Vice City)</small>
}}
}}


'''Avery Carrington''' is a successful Texan property magnate, real estate mogul and extreme capitalist. He enjoys quoting his father and using old-western euphemisms. He is willing to do anything to manipulate property prices and land value, including arson, rioting, intimidation, and murder.
'''Avery Carrington''' is a character in the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series]] who appears as a major character in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] (set in [[1986]]) and a minor character in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]] (set in [[1998]]). A billboard of Avery Carrington also appears in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] (set in [[1992]]) and 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]], who has appeared in such films as ''The Longest Yard'' and ''Deliverance''.
He always wears a cowboy hat and rides in a black [[Stretch|limousine]]. Carrington has been suspected by the police to be wearing a wig, although this is only explicitly revealed in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]].<ref name="Wig">'''Donald Love''': "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> This is also hinted at by Tommy Vercetti in the GTA Vice City mission ''[[Riot (GTA VC)|Riot]]'' when he refers to Avery as a "rug-wearing prick".


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 believed to have learned a quote that has been repeated in almost the same manner in GTA III:
==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]].


"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 [[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|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]] 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 create 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]].


[[Image:Avery Construction.jpg|left|thumb|Avery Construction in Blueberry, Red County, San Andreas.]]
===Last Years===
Avery Carrington continued to expand his business, appearing on a billboard in [[Las Venturas]], [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]] in [[1992]]. He continues in his work and in [[1998]] he flies to [[Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale|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 steals Carrington's body for Love, who eats the body on his flight away from Liberty City.


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>
==Trivia==
[[File:Avery Construction.jpg|right|thumb|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] and in the mission [[Morgue Party Resurrection]] in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]].
*Avery Carrington may also have been involved with the company [[Avery Construction]], a property development company working in [[Blueberry]], [[Red County]], [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]].


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


==Missions Appearances==
==Gallery==
=== GTA Vice City ===
<gallery>
* [[The Party]]
File:AveryCarringtonArtwork.jpg|Concept artwork of Avery Carrington
* [[Riot (GTA VC)|Riot]]
File:AveryCarringtonGTALCS.jpg|Avery Carrington after arriving at [[Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale|Francis International Airport]], in [[Panlantic Land Grab]]
* [[Four Iron]] <small>(Boss)</small>
</gallery>
* [[Demolition Man]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Two Bit Hit]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Shakedown (GTA VC)|Shakedown]]  
 
=== GTA Liberty&nbsp;City Stories ===
* [[Panlantic Land Grab]] <small>(Killed)</small>
 
==References==
[[Image:Avery CarringtonArt.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Avery Carrington artwork from GTA Vice City]]
 
<references />


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Revision as of 16:44, 28 December 2009

Character
Avery Carrington
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Appearances [[Appearance::Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]
Full Name Avery Carrington
Gender Gender::Male
Place of Birth Texas
Date of Death [[Error: Invalid time.|1998]][[DOD::1998| ]]
Nationality [[American|American]][[Nationality::American| ]]
Home Vice City
Main Affiliations Donald Love
Ken Rosenberg
Tommy Vercetti
Vercetti Gang
Colombian Cartel
Vehicles Stretch
Bobcat
Businesses Real Estate
Construction
Voiced by Burt Reynolds (GTA Vice City)
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Avery Carrington is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series]] who appears as a major character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (set in 1986) and a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (set in 1998). A billboard of Avery Carrington also appears in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (set in 1992) and 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, who has appeared in such films as The Longest Yard and Deliverance.

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 create 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 billboard 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.

Trivia

File:Avery Construction.jpg
Avery Construction in Blueberry, Red County, San Andreas.

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GTA Liberty City Stories

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