User blog comment:AndreEagle17/Top 10 protagonists/@comment-1037580-20141212114415/@comment-25261281-20141212190925

Franklin is empty, that's all. Aside from his need to say "nigga" every second and his terrible voice acting (though these do not include in the reasons why is he empty), he has just no background. All we know from him is that his mother died and that he was thrown out of school for beating up a teacher (congrats R*, almost the same thing happened to Ryder). He's one of these characters whose background has absolutely no influence on him. CJ's background had a major influence on him, Niko's as well, and also Trevor's and Michael's. But not him, all he wants is "crime cuz it's fun" and "money money money" while not giving an absolute fuck to his childhood best friend Lamar when he's caught by Ballas, and only save him because his master Tanisha orders him to do so.

I don't know what R* was thinking about when they designed him. Michael and Trev are pretty interesting, but F is kinda a pointless character.