Chan Jaoming (昭明陳) is a main character appearing and the tertiary antagonist in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Prior to his physical debut, he was briefly mentioned in Grand Theft Auto IV.
History[]
Background[]
Chan is the son of Hsin Jaoming and the underboss of the Jaoming Family, his father's set of the Liberty City Triads.
According to the LCPD Database in Grand Theft Auto IV, Chan has been arrested on three occasions: once in 1999 for possession of heroin, again in 2003 for extortion and 2005 for possession of stolen property.
Chan is described as a pervert (he mentions having sex with twins and a transsexual prostitute, and bragged about filming underage gymnast girls in the showers), drug-addled, and too stupid to become his father's successor as the leader of the Jaoming Family. Chan is also oblivious to Huang's constant mocking and sarcastic remarks, and believed him to be his friend right until the very end.
Events of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars[]
Main article: War in Chinatown
By 2009, Chan is one of three possible contenders (the other two being Wu "Kenny" Lee and Zhou Ming) to inherit his father's position. He is believed to be the underboss of the Jaoming Family and has a group of loyal supporters. Like Kenny and Zhou, Chan employs Huang Lee for several jobs meant to benefit the Triad cause in an attempt to impress his father and gain his favor, though most of the time his attempts fail miserably, resulting in Chan becoming an even bigger disappointment in Hsin's eyes.
In the first days of working for Chan, Huang helps him win an illegal street race against the Irish American Killers gang (by sabotaging the fastest racer's car and ramming the other opponents during the race) so he can brag about it to The Tongs.
Later, Chan puts Huang in contact with a friend of his, Melanie Mallard, a TV reporter who is making a document about the drug trade from the perspective of the Liberty City Triads. Chan hopes the document will impress the Tongs, so they would favour him for the next Triad boss. Huang doesn't like the idea, but Chan assures their faces will be blurred out and their names won't be mentioned.
Eventually, however, the Irish gangsters from the street race realize Chan was cheating and kidnap him. Huang rescues him but Chan blames him for his kidnapping, saying that if Huang had not sabotaged the street race champion car, none of this would have happened, despite himself ordering Huang to sabotage the car.
Once Huang has met with Chan at his penthouse in East Holland, he has to help him as an escort to a Spanish Lords drug deal in Northwood; however, it turns out to be an ambush. Shortly after dropping Chan off at his father's Linen Lounge club, a police squad corners him at the club. But the leader, Wade Heston, who is actually an undercover cop, says that he's trying to help Huang recover the Yu Jian Sword and avenge Huang's father.
Huang later meets Chan at his penthouse. Chan, visibly upset, informs Huang that Melanie received an opportunity to broadcast her show on television, and she intends to reveal both Chan and Huang's involvement in drug trafficking, manufacturing and distributing. Huang goes to the TV studio and destroys the incriminating tapes before Melanie's show goes on the air. Huang then kidnaps Melanie and takes her to the dock compound where Chan arrives shortly thereafter. Melanie attempts to both blame Huang and try to flatter Chan to convince him to let her go. A distraught Chan feigns to let her go only to shoot her in the head with his gun. Both Chan and Huang remain silent; Chan appears to be remorseful while Huang remains silent, out of shock.
Later, the FIB investigates Chan on suspicion of selling counterfeit goods, so he asks Huang to dispose of his "goods". However, one of his entourage rats out Chan to the FIB and he is arrested. Under orders of Hsin, Huang assassinates the FIB informant in front of the Castle Gardens Hotel. After Chan is released, he asks Huang to meet him on the rooftop of the Videogeddon arcade.
Once there, Chan says he is aware that Hsin got the informant killed, but he claims that his entourage are all rats and deserve to die, so he told all his entourage to meet him on Happiness Island. While flying over the island, Huang burns down all of his entourage by throwing Molotov Cocktails at them from Chan's helicopter.
Both Chan and Zhou are later falsely accused of being FIB informants who were ratting out the Triads, and they are both killed by Huang on Kenny's orders after the latter is given leadership of the Triads by Hsin.
Character[]
Personal Information[]
- He lives in East Holland, Algonquin.
- His email address is CJaoming@myroomonline.net.
- His telephone number is 555-6078-34.
Murders Committed[]
- Melanie Mallard (Killed for attempting to broadcast Chan's operations on TV without blurring Huang's or Chan's faces) (PSP only)
LCPD Database Record[]
2003 - Extortion
- Has a team of men loyal to him.
Mission Appearances[]
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars[]
- Pimp His Ride (Boss)
- Whack the Racers (Boss)
- Parking Pickle (Boss / PSP only)
- Jackin' Chan (Boss)
- Raw Deal (Boss)
- Trail Blazer
- Sources (Boss / PSP only)
- Sa-Boat-Age (Boss/Arrested)
- Counterfeit Gangster (Boss)
- Slaying With Fire (Boss)
- Clear the Pier (Boss/False Betrayal/Killed)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Jaoming is not a real Chinese surname, and would be unlikely to exist since most Chinese surnames consist of only one character. Some two-character Chinese surnames existed in the era of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (such as Au-Yeung [歐陽], Zhuge [诸葛] and Sima [司馬]) but are relatively rare in present-day China. However, Chan is a perfectly usable surname, in fact it is the fifth most common surname in all of China (although it is romanized as Chen when it is from a primarily Mandarin-speaking region), and the most common in Hong Kong and the surrounding Cantonese-speaking region, where Huang Lee and the other Liberty City Triads are from.
- The name "Chan Jaoming" is a possible a reference to Yao Ming, a famous Chinese basketball player.
- His favorite radio stations are Alchemist and DJ Khalil since these are the default radio stations in his souped up Banshee.
- He and Catalina are the only antagonists to be related to a tritagonist.
- He reveals he is either bisexual or pansexual when he mentions having had intercourse with a male and female partner at the same time.
- He is the first "antagonist" in the series who never had any evil intentions regarding the protagonist; in fact, he considered Huang his best friend right until the moment the latter came to kill him.
