Richard Bastion

Richard Bastion is a celebrity in the Grand Theft Auto series, who appears in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Description
In 2008, Richard is the host of the WKTT's right-wing call in show, The Richard Bastion Show. Bastion answers callers questions and statements throughout the show, in a format basically identical to Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. Bastion briefly admits at one point in the show to overdosing on prescription pills, also mocking Limbaugh.

Personality
Bastion is a caricature of someone violently, radically right-wing, and even rallies one caller to shoot an innocent Mexican man on a subway, calling him "Al Con Queso", a "Spanish terrorist" and also blames him for illegal immigration. In his personal life, he considers himself an extremely orthodox Christian and stays mostly abstinant even though he is married. The show strongly suggests that his wife is cheating on him for this reason, and he is also suspiciously knowledgeable about transsexuals and other such topics.

It's implied that Bastion is a latent homosexual, as he takes 'Bastion's Buddy's Pledge' which is 'I will not come onto men and sodomy is a sin even if I crave it.' Bastion says that he takes that pledge every morning, after doing very stereotypically metrosexual things, such as facial scrubs and facial toner.

Trivia

 * Bastion was voiced by Jason Sudeikis, one of four then-current SNL performers to appear in GTA IV. Bill Hader voiced Wilson Taylor Sr. on PLR's Pacemaker, Will Forte voiced Martin Serious and Fred Armisen voiced multiple characters on Integrity 2.0. In a segment of Weekend Update, a news parody that's in every episode of Saturday Night Live, that aired following the game's release, Hader appeared as Niko Bellic and Armisen appeared as Vladimir Glebov.
 * He rarely makes outside references, but does so a few times. First, he talks about puppets and their effect on children - he sees Derek the Dodo (the Ammu-Nation mascot from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories) as a good influence on children, and goes on to say "the only puppet I like is the president", as the in-game president Joe Lawton, based on real American President George W. Bush, who was believed by some to be a puppet for Vice President Dick Cheney, or Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who was occasionally called "Bush's Brain". He also briefly mentions Jeremy St. Ives.
 * Bastion is one of the featured celebrities on the Vinewood Walk of Fame in GTA V.

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