What are some of your headcanons?

[Rise FM]

16 hours ago, E Revere said:

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Thanks!

 

[Haruko Haruhara]

Bully is set in the 3D Universe, not the HD Universe. I mean not only was it originally released for PS2, but a world where people can survive massive explosions like it's nothing and all the other wacky sh*t (like the hobo getting abducted by a UFO) just wouldn't sit right in a far more grounded, realistic world like the HD Universe.

 

But then again GTA Online has flying cars and jetpacks these days so who am I to judge

Edited February 23, 2023 by Eugene H. Krabs

[Pistol Bobcat]

On 2/15/2023 at 12:08 AM, jaygoto said:

Mike Toreno in the 3D Universe has a lot of connections and knows a lot of events going on in the 3D Universe. Mike Toreno knows a lot about Tommy Vercetti and the two have interacted before.  Unlike CJ who despises Toreno, Tommy knows Toreno is a huge ally to have and respects Toreno.  Mike Toreno also knows about Claude's adventures from 1992 to 2001. Unlike CJ and Tommy, Toreno is more cautious with Claude since Claude has almost nothing to lose.

 

I like to think Toreno is a member of the 3D Universe's version of SHIELD, maybe he has a Kree alien in storage under his ranch.

[jaygoto]

Pretty soon due to Dimtri's obsession of hunting down Niko, Dimitri puts an open bounty on Niko to get independents to take their shot on Niko. If that fails. Dimitri will then resort to hiring outside talent to get rid of Niko. If there were super powered beings in GTA, Dimitri would likely hire some of them to take out Niko. It would be a miracle if Niko managed to survived all of this.

Edited February 23, 2023 by jaygoto

[universetwisters]

3 hours ago, jaygoto said:

Pretty soon due to Dimtri's obsession of hunting down Niko, Dimitri puts an open bounty on Niko to get independents to take their shot on Niko. If that fails. Dimitri will then resort to hiring outside talent to get rid of Niko. If there were super powered beings in GTA, Dimitri would likely hire some of them to take out Niko. It would be a miracle if Niko managed to survived all of this.

 

Doesn't Dmitri die in both endings tho?

[The BHD]

I guess this is headcanon cause some people assume it's not true but I consider that all the real world cities and real world brands exist in the GTA universe, you just happen to not see them. Cause if a song mentions a real world city in GTA I assume that city exists in the GTA universe, and same goes for car brands (iirc someone said that a song mentions Bugattis in GTA V). It's not just car brands either, Colt appeared in the PS2 version of GTA Vice City (without a license to use the name as far as I know).

And some real life places appear in the destinations you see at the airports, even Miami.

Edited February 24, 2023 by No.

[jaygoto]

13 minutes ago, universetwisters said:

 

Doesn't Dmitri die in both endings tho?

Thats if Dimtri survived or got away. It wont be long before Dimitri started putting an open bounty on Niko.

[E Revere]

Mike Toreno is half or quarter Filipino, and was born in Manila which explains his weird surname. His origin is part of how he became a government agent.

[universetwisters]

52 minutes ago, E Revere said:

Mike Toreno is half or quarter Filipino, and was born in Manila which explains his weird surname. His origin is part of how he became a government agent.

 

Who's to say Mike Toreno isn't an identity assigned to government agents like James Bond is? 

[Thelema93]

That Michael n Trevor done butt stuff in North Yankton. 

[cant remember]

On 2/24/2023 at 2:19 AM, The BHD said:

I guess this is headcanon cause some people assume it's not true but I consider that all the real world cities and real world brands exist in the GTA universe, you just happen to not see them. Cause if a song mentions a real world city in GTA I assume that city exists in the GTA universe, and same goes for car brands (iirc someone said that a song mentions Bugattis in GTA V). It's not just car brands either, Colt appeared in the PS2 version of GTA Vice City (without a license to use the name as far as I know).

And some real life places appear in the destinations you see at the airports, even Miami.

 

I have a variation of this headcanon, where the subject that does appear in GTA is transformed and those that don't are assumed stlil identical. So Sprite is Sprunk but Redbull exists too and is still called Redbull, your character just doesn't come across any.

 

Also Paris exists in the GTA universe, aswell as Miami/VC and the headcanon is flexible enough that the same place can be mentioned by both names. RDR is in the same universe and when they mention NY it's still the same place as LC.

[universetwisters]

On 4/5/2023 at 9:08 AM, cant remember said:

 

RDR is in the same universe and when they mention NY it's still the same place as LC.

RDR is in the same universe? Idk if there’s any real proof other than Easter eggs. 
 

OT but kinda meta - The reason that WASH HIM OFF song was cut from the final version of III was because they didn’t realize that Kleenex wasn’t an actual brand name for a tissue and thought it was some generalized term for tissues and cut it because they didn’t wanna get got by the company that makes Kleenex  

[cant remember]

2 hours ago, universetwisters said:

RDR is in the same universe? Idk if there’s any real proof other than Easter eggs. 
 

I mean it's in the same universe in my headcanon.

Edited April 9, 2023 by cant remember

[Pistol Bobcat]

On 4/9/2023 at 6:47 AM, universetwisters said:

 

OT but kinda meta - The reason that WASH HIM OFF song was cut from the final version of III was because they didn’t realize that Kleenex wasn’t an actual brand name for a tissue and thought it was some generalized term for tissues and cut it because they didn’t wanna get got by the company that makes Kleenex  

 

Sounds likely, they also for some reason carefully cut out Toni's namedrop of Duran Duran during DJ dialogue 

[E Revere]

I used to dislike the thought of 3D era games being films in the HD universe. But I'm getting around to the idea. I like to think that 3D universe games tell fictionalized versions of events from the HD universe. The Leones, the Forellis and such are filling in for the Five Families of GTA IV. Things like that. Just like classic mafia films tell bastardized/fictionalized forms of real events, streamlining it, changing characters' names, dramatizing the boring parts.

[Guest]

I've posted this in other discussion. It's an idea I got recently, and I like to think about it.

 

We know GTA 2 sets in "Anywhere City", but we don't know what real-life place it's based on.

 

In my headcanon, "Anywhere City" could be a hypothetical place within the GTA Universe. It's an imagination among in-game GTA characters of how even a futuristic city can descend into a crime-plagued place. Hence the silly-sounding name "Anywhere City", GTA characters are imagining how it can be any city in the future. It could be Liberty, Los Santos, Vice City, anywhere city.

 

Maybe GTA VI could feature a discussion between its characters, where they discuss about how no matter how advanced future technologies would be, a city can still be a sh*thole where criminals and gangs have control. That city? Anywhere City.

 

It's kinda like how we imagine "Night City" as a dangerous cyberpunk city.

[universetwisters]

Claude really was killed by Catalina at the beginning of III.
 

What you experience within gameplay is his dying dream of getting revenge on Catalina and his dreamlike state makes everything much more over the top (i.e. the inflation, M16 firing rate, how you get money for hitting other cars etc). 

All of the missions involve Claude working for someone and then selling them out to the highest bidder, like killing Sal and Kenji, idk I’m sure there’s better examples out there but it’s Claude’s subconscious reminding him of all the toes he stepped on and people he sold out earlier in his life and how it led up to him being sold out by someone he trusted, much like what he did to others

 

The gunshot heard right before the closing credits isn’t Claude shooting Maria, it’s Catalina’s bullet killing Claude. Any gameplay after the credits is Claude in his personal hell/purgatory

[Pistol Bobcat]

Dr Friedlander is dead as a texas salad bar and some chapters of GTA Online should just be ignored

[The Deadite]

The RDR series is canon to GTA, but GTA is not canon to RDR.

Two different universes that are both shared and not at the same time.

[Thelema93]

I have head canons about the lives of the protagonists after their respective games come to an end. 

 

Michael kept moving up in the movie business. I do headcanon that he and Amanda get divorced. Michael just couldn't keep it in his pants, being around all the vinewood starlets. He ends up marrying a young, attractive actress. His crime days are more or less done. But he still occasionally deals with shady people, criminals and might do some "Thug" work for Solomon from time to time. He still occasionally hangs out with Franklin and Trevor. 

 

I did have a headcanon before that online update came out that Frank opened up a luxury taxi business. Driving rich people around in expensive cars. It's like a cab business for the elite.. It's not too far to what actually happens. 

 

Trevor continues being Trevor. Running TPI, becomes a lifestyle guru, goes a bit vinewood as Ron says and starts drinking Kale and doing yoga, triathlons etc. After a near death experience from an overdose, he realised he couldn't keep burning the candle at both ends. But he's still an unhinged lunatic who pulls scores for fun. 

[Pistol Bobcat]

Michael and Mr Richards buy Star Wars from George Lucas, the GTA version of Disney try to buy it from Richards Majestic (who tells them to go f*ck themselves). Michael plays a part in bringing Heir to the Empire to the big screen and onwards.

Edited July 20, 2023 by Pistol Bobcat

[Role-Play Walkthrough]

On 7/18/2023 at 5:31 PM, Danny Dedito said:

The RDR series is canon to GTA, but GTA is not canon to RDR.

Two different universes that are both shared and not at the same time.

That’s how I feel about GTA Online. I think IV, EFLC, and V all happened in the world of GTA Online, but in the world of IV, EFLC, V, and VI, nothing from Online is canon

[Role-Play Walkthrough]

I’m seeing a lot of these headcanons are contradictory to true in game events, such as Niko killing Bulgarin, etc. For me personally, I like for my headcanons to be non-contradictory, because I deeply do assume them to be true for real while playing. 

 

My biggest ones are first of all that Anywhere City is Chicago, IL. and that the events of GTA Online are not canon to the singleplayer universe of GTAIV, EFLC, GTAV, and GTAVI. Meaning Friedlander is dead, Franklin moved on from Tanisha, etc. basically I believe what Dan Houser obviously believed and intended about his own artwork. This is non contradictory, because while obviously the singleplayer story happened in Online, until VI confirms otherwise, the canonicity is a one-way street in my mind. 

 

I also subscribe to the known-&-famous “Dave-Based Theorem for Franklin’s Escape” and the “Johnny-Luis Paper Theorem”

 

DBTFFE states famously that after Franklin committed a triple homicide on police officers in the mission “The Long Stretch” by shooting down the first helicopter we encounter upon exiting the building, obviously a major nationwide investigation began to determine the suspect. It is likely that the government were aware of Franklin being the culprit very soon after it happened, but after Franklin becomes involved with Michael, and Dave Norton with Steven Haines, the FIB decide to cover for Franklin in order to use him as an asset for Three’s Company and more. Dave most likely knew who Franklin was the (the known wanted murderer of three male cops) the moment he saw his license plate on the car in Michael’s driveway following the jewelry store heist. Because of this, the FIB ends all investigation into the incident, compensates the families of the victims, destroys all evidence, and claims that it turns out it was a freak accident and the helicopter crashed after all. 
 

then the JLPT states that Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez, with their implicit membership in the impossible trinity, along with Niko, are actually both pawns in a master plan by the IAA to let certain elements of crime and terrorism in LC appear to work themselves out, without the IAA needing to do any dirty work themselves. Because of Michelle AKA Karen, Niko gets to meet and speak with UL Paper, who is pulling the puppet strings of the whole operation, but Johnny and Luis, while they don’t meet him or know they he is doing it for them, are actually also being prevented by the government from getting arrested for all of the major terrorism they are committing, because they are secretly being used in an overall orchestrated plan by the IAA. This is the only logical explanation for how they, especially Luis, could ever dream of walking away from the mass murder of cops that they continuously commit without regard for fingerprints, magazines, and other forensic evidence they leave behind. For Niko and the GTA V Trio, they have the IAA and the FIB to rationalize it, but Johnny and Luis don’t have this at least explicitly, so the JLPT is one of the only known ways of reconciling this and being able to actually enjoy playing EFLC without being filled up to the brim with the greatest of hatreds and the deepest of angers. The only way to enjoy the game without having all your immersion zzzzooink sucked right out the window, down the drain. 

 

 

[The Tracker]

On 7/24/2023 at 8:52 PM, LucidLocomotive said:

I’m seeing a lot of these headcanons are contradictory to true in game events, such as Niko killing Bulgarin, etc. For me personally, I like for my headcanons to be non-contradictory, because I deeply do assume them to be true for real while playing. 

 

My biggest ones are first of all that Anywhere City is Chicago, IL. and that the events of GTA Online are not canon to the singleplayer universe of GTAIV, EFLC, GTAV, and GTAVI. Meaning Friedlander is dead, Franklin moved on from Tanisha, etc. basically I believe what Dan Houser obviously believed and intended about his own artwork. This is non contradictory, because while obviously the singleplayer story happened in Online, until VI confirms otherwise, the canonicity is a one-way street in my mind. 

 

I also subscribe to the known-&-famous “Dave-Based Theorem for Franklin’s Escape” and the “Johnny-Luis Paper Theorem”

 

DBTFFE states famously that after Franklin committed a triple homicide on police officers in the mission “The Long Stretch” by shooting down the first helicopter we encounter upon exiting the building, obviously a major nationwide investigation began to determine the suspect. It is likely that the government were aware of Franklin being the culprit very soon after it happened, but after Franklin becomes involved with Michael, and Dave Norton with Steven Haines, the FIB decide to cover for Franklin in order to use him as an asset for Three’s Company and more. Dave most likely knew who Franklin was the (the known wanted murderer of three male cops) the moment he saw his license plate on the car in Michael’s driveway following the jewelry store heist. Because of this, the FIB ends all investigation into the incident, compensates the families of the victims, destroys all evidence, and claims that it turns out it was a freak accident and the helicopter crashed after all. 
 

then the JLPT states that Johnny Klebitz and Luis Lopez, with their implicit membership in the impossible trinity, along with Niko, are actually both pawns in a master plan by the IAA to let certain elements of crime and terrorism in LC appear to work themselves out, without the IAA needing to do any dirty work themselves. Because of Michelle AKA Karen, Niko gets to meet and speak with UL Paper, who is pulling the puppet strings of the whole operation, but Johnny and Luis, while they don’t meet him or know they he is doing it for them, are actually also being prevented by the government from getting arrested for all of the major terrorism they are committing, because they are secretly being used in an overall orchestrated plan by the IAA. This is the only logical explanation for how they, especially Luis, could ever dream of walking away from the mass murder of cops that they continuously commit without regard for fingerprints, magazines, and other forensic evidence they leave behind. For Niko and the GTA V Trio, they have the IAA and the FIB to rationalize it, but Johnny and Luis don’t have this at least explicitly, so the JLPT is one of the only known ways of reconciling this and being able to actually enjoy playing EFLC without being filled up to the brim with the greatest of hatreds and the deepest of angers. The only way to enjoy the game without having all your immersion zzzzooink sucked right out the window, down the drain. 

 

 

 

I like to think that Johnny has his crimes covered up by Stubbs, and Luis by Yusuf (Yeah, he isn't from the government, but seeing he is one of the richest people in LC, he definitely might have some connections). 

[AutumnNintendoNerd]

On 7/29/2022 at 4:38 PM, AlexGTAGamer said:

This is going to sound a real silly headcanon, but I have always thought that before the events of GTA IV that there was an earthquake and mini-tsunami that struck Liberty and Alderney, hence why there are so many damaged and abandoned buildings, wrecked cars, piers and partially sunk ships around the map. Again I know this is a real out there headcanon, but running on this thought makes for fun roleplays, especially inside of the more larger abandoned buildings (the Sprunk factory much more so what with the collapsed floors). 

On the "Bless Your Heart" segment on Blaine County Radio in GTA V, Jock Cranley says "as soon as I heard about so many people losing their homes in that storm in Liberty City, I flew out there for a special screening of my latest movie"

 

By "storm" I guess he means a hurricane, and it's never stated when exactly this hurricane hit LC, so I think your headcanon might actually be true and what Rockstar intended.

[universetwisters]

1 hour ago, AutumnNintendoNerd said:

On the "Bless Your Heart" segment on Blaine County Radio in GTA V, Jock Cranley says "as soon as I heard about so many people losing their homes in that storm in Liberty City, I flew out there for a special screening of my latest movie"

 

By "storm" I guess he means a hurricane, and it's never stated when exactly this hurricane hit LC, so I think your headcanon might actually be true and what Rockstar intended.

I always assumed that was a reference to hurricane sandy that hit in 2012 and flooded some parts of NYC

[AutumnNintendoNerd]

1 hour ago, universetwisters said:

I always assumed that was a reference to hurricane sandy that hit in 2012 and flooded some parts of NYC

It was, but they never say specifically when it happened in universe

Since we're headcanoning here, I headcanon that he's talking about a hurricane that hit Liberty City somewhere around 2006 or 2007, and that's why you have so many abandoned buildings and wrecked cars and such, because the hurricane was still relatively recent when Niko arrived in LC.

[gtafaninwest]

Salvatore's mansion once belonged to Sonny Forelli before his passing.

[universetwisters]

Did I mention the possibility that the kid Mallorie is carrying may not even be Roman's, but Vlads?

[happygrowls]

49 minutes ago, universetwisters said:

Did I mention the possibility that the kid Mallorie is carrying may not even be Roman's, but Vlads?

 

 

as if IV's deal ending wasn't depressing enough