Tritagonist

A tritagonist is the third most important character of a story, after the protagonist and deuteragonist.

Many tritagonists in the GTA series have a lot in common. Most tritagonists have never met the protagonist before and start to know them better through the missions that they give to them. Some tritagonists are closely associated with a deuteragonist such as Asuka Kasen and Little Jacob. Some tritagonists who have known the protagonist for a while are Ashley Butler, Hsin Jaoming, and all of the tritagonists in Grand Theft Auto V.

In several games, the protagonist, deuteragonist, and tritagonist are all seen together at least once. Exceptions to this are Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories' and The Lost and Damned' where the three main characters are not all seen together at any point. Grand Theft Auto V is also the first game to have multiple tritagonists.

Trivia

 * Asuka Kasen and Louise Cassidy-Williams are the only tritagonists to be killed by an antagonist, and Lance Vance is the only tritagonist to be killed by the protagonist himself (although the player has the option to kill Ashley Butler as Trevor Philips and Stretch is killed by Michael De Santa if Option C is chosen).
 * Lance Vance is also the deuteragonist of another game.
 * Donald Love is the first tritagonist to have an unknown fate, although this occurs in a different game.
 * At above the age of 70, Hsin Jaoming is the oldest tritagonist in the series. He is also the first one to be arrested.
 * Stretch is the first tritagonist whose fate can be decided by the player as mentioned above.
 * Lance Vance and Stretch are the only tritagonists to simultaneously be antagonists.
 * Ashley Butler is the only tritagonist to die without being killed by anyone (unless she is killed by Trevor as mentioned above).
 * Lance Vance and Jimmy De Santa are the only tritagonists to be related to a protagonist.