Michelle (GTA IV)

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Character

Michelle
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Appearances	[[Appearance::Grand Theft Auto IV]]
Full Name	Michelle
Gender	Gender::Female
Date of Birth	[[|1981 (Age 27)]]
Age Now
Nationality	[[American|American]][[Nationality::American| ]]
Home	Mohawk Avenue, Rotterdam Hill, Liberty City
Main Affiliations	Mallorie Bardas
Vehicles	Silver Merit
Voiced by	Rebecca Henderson
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Michelle is Niko Bellic's first girlfriend in Grand Theft Auto IV. He is introduced to her during the mission "Three's a Crowd" by Mallorie Bardas, who urges the two of them to date, due to Niko having just arrived in the city and not knowing anybody.

Niko and Michelle break up after The Snow Storm.

Biography

At 27, Michelle is three years younger than Niko. Mallorie sets the both of them up and they decide to begin dating. Not much is known about her past life except that she may have had criminal links herself. She claims she is not a local in Liberty City having arrived from the midwest.

Preferences

Michelle likes being chauffeured in almost any car, except vans and police cars. She also isn't fond of certain cars that come in beater variants. She likes Niko wearing clothes from the Russian Shop. Michelle prefers variety, expressing interest in new cars and pointing out if Niko is wearing the same outfit or takes her to the same place constantly. However, her intonation when asking about a new car sounds more like the questions she asks about his business rather an actual interest like in the case of glasses for example, leading us to believe she's assuming it's from illicit activities. In general, Michelle enjoys going out on dates to a variety of places, including restaurants, nightclubs, and bars.

Cars Michelle Likes:

• Roman's Taxi
• Merit
• Sentinel (though tends to go back and forth between liking/disliking)
• Comet
• Sabre (not beater-version)
• Ruiner
• Blista Compact
• Voodoo
• Banshee

Restaurants/Bars Michelle Likes:

• 69th Street Diner, or any other diner.
• Burger Shot
• Clucking Bell
• Steinway Beer Garden (though comments that Irish gangsters hangout there)
• Comrades Bar (though comments that Russian thugs hangout there)
• Lucky Winkles

Venues Michelle Likes:

• Bowling
• Darts
• Pool
• Split Sides (she does not like Perestroika due to the criminal heads that run the club)

Trivia

• In the beta version of GTA IV, Michelle had a noticeably different appearance. While she still adorned her black peacoat ensemble, her hair style was slightly different, and her nose had a much more wider appearance. Her beta model can be seen in the third GTA IV trailer "Move up, Ladies".
• Michelle's vehicle is a silver Merit, which Niko drives in the mission First Date. Interestingly enough, the player can take this car after completing the mission, without Michelle caring.
• Whenever Niko takes Michelle to a bar, she never gets drunk and stumbles about like Niko does. In fact, Niko will often comment on this, saying things like "Were you drinking in there? I felt as if I was the only one knocking back that stuff. I do not know." It is revealed that she also goes and gets the drinks, implying that she is intentionally trying to him drunk, possibly so he will tell her something that he wouldn't say if he was sober.
• Her favourite outfit for Niko to wear is the sand Hinterland coat, blue Russian Shop jeans and light brown boots with the sunglasses.
• If your first date with Michelle isn't very succesful, but you ask to sleep with her, she answers: "I'd invite you in for some coffee, but it'd cost at least, say...$20m" which is reference to Hot Coffee scandal with San Andreas. Niko will then ask her just for a kiss, which she'll give.
• She could send SMS to Niko with text: "Sorry, I'm on another assignment. Talk to you in a while. xx".
• Michelle's favourite radio station is Vladivostok FM.
• She is genuinley attracted to Niko regardless of her true intentions, and is clearly upset when she has to betray him. Judging from Niko's reaction, he seems to have truly cared for her too.
• She sometimes shouts out "Tell me more!" when she and Niko have sex, foreshadowing her secret as a government agent.
• After sleeping with her, Niko comments that she is a "nice girl, but there's something strange about her". Another reference to her being a government agent.
• It is assumed that Michelle talks to Mallorie about Niko often, confiding in her that she really likes him. Mallorie tells Niko to call her again as a result. She also moans about how much she likes him when they are having sex, as well as asking him to tell her "interesting things".

Gallery

• The artwork of Michelle

  The artwork of Michelle

• Michelle's unique silver Merit.

  Michelle's unique silver Merit.