Mr. Santo

Mr. Santo is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a minor antagonist in The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Background
Santo is a loan shark in Liberty City who lends money to Luis' mother, which she struggles to pay off. Luis assumes, possibly correctly, that Santo also loans money to other people and, as brought up by Luis multiple times, there may be other old ladies.

Events of The Ballad of Gay Tony
The debt is paid off when Santo takes Luis to cage fighting on the expectation the player would take a fall in the third round. The choice whether to take the fall is left for the player.

Taking a dive= If Luis takes a dive, Santo will appear in Adriana Lopez's life again, helping her with shopping. In a call with Luis, he unsuccessfully asks her not to talk with Santo anymore. Winning= "You're a fucking dead man. I'm gonna burn that bitch mom of yours, too."

- Santo threatening Luis.

If Luis doesn't take a dive and finishes off his third opponent, outside the cage fighting club, an enraged Santo attacks Luis with a knife, forcing Luis to kill Santo.

Since Luis is required to take less than 10% damage in order to achieve 100% gold completion for the mission, which cannot be done if the player chooses to take a dive, it is likely that Santo is canonically supposed to die in Momma's Boy.

Appearances

 * The Ballad of Gay Tony
 * Momma's Boy (Can be killed)

Trivia

 * Santo, like Gerry McReary and Ray Boccino, is much taller than all other characters in cutscenes. During gameplay he is the same height as all others.
 * His chest tattoo reads "No todo lo que brilla es oro", which translates to "Not all that glitters is gold", a known aphorism "".

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