Louise Cassidy-Williams and her newborn daughter Mary-Beth Williams in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
Children in the Grand Theft Auto series are characters, either unseen or cutscene-only, who are younger than the age of majority. They are never present in normal gameplay as pedestrians due to obvious sensitive and controversial reasons regarding the series' violent crime fiction theme.
Description[]
Children are referenced in all three universes of the series, through dialogue, in-game websites and photographs. To date, Mary-Beth Williams is the only child to physically appear, as a cutscene prop in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
In the original Grand Theft Auto, the player drives Samuel Deever's children to a hotel in one mission, though they don't have character sprites and are unseen inside Deever's car. School Buses are present as driveable vehicles in the original Grand Theft Auto (as a Liberty City map-specific variant of the in-game Bus) and as wrecks in games since Grand Theft Auto III.
In recent titles including Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, renders of teenaged characters appear in portraits and in-game website images, including younger versions of Franklin Clinton, Jimmy De Santa and Tracey De Santa. Some female NPCs may announce to someone on the phone that they are pregnant.
Known Children[]
Note: The following characters are considered minors during the events of the game they are featured/mentioned. In order of appearance:
2D Universe[]
- Samuel Deever's children – unseen character sprites.
3D Universe[]
- Joey and Jill – Eris shoes manufacturer employees.
- Mary-Beth Williams – Louise Cassidy-Williams and Marty Jay Williams's daughter.
- Yuka Kasen – Asuka Kasen's niece.
- Henry and other kids from Ammu-Nation's Saturday Safety Fun Commercial with Derek the Dodo.
HD Universe[]
- Jill Von Crastenburg – A 13-year old celebrity (as of 2008).
- Franklin and Tanisha Clinton's children.
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Controversy[]
Debunked Darkel Mission[]
There were false rumors about a cut mission related to a school bus bombing, which were debunked by Rockstar Games during a Rockstar Newswire Q&A post and in their own GTA III Design Document dated from 2000.
Little Lacy Surprise[]
Little Lacy Surprise is a controversial in-game website in Grand Theft Auto IV and mentioned in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, monitored by the police and government agents.