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| “ | YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE, FOOL! | „ |
| ~ Big Smoke's first and most famous quote |
| “ | I got caught up in the money... the power (cough)... I don't give a shit- oh fuck, man! (cough) [...] I had no choice... I had to do it... I just see the opportunity (cough)... When I'm gone, everyone gonna remember my name... Big Smoke! | „ |
| ~ Big Smoke's final words |
Melvin “Big Smoke” Harris is the secondary antagonist of the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the seventh installment of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.
He was one of Carl "CJ" Johnson's childhood friends and a member of the Grove Street Families, one of the most renowed criminal gangs of Los Santos, San Andreas. While posing as a helpful ally to CJ and his brother Sweet, Big Smoke secretly allies with CRASH head Frank Tenpenny and the Ballas to betray the Families in order to sell crack to Los Santos for money and power.
He was voiced by Clifton Powell.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Some time before the events of the game, Smoke allied himself with C.R.A.S.H. as well as the Ballas after Sweet made it clear he didn't want Grove Street Families to sell drugs.
- He also convinced Ryder, another high-ranking member of the gang and a close friend, to betray Grove Street Families.
- He faked showing sorrow or sympathy for Beverly's death so that Sweet doesn't suspect him.
- He moved out of Grove Street to prepare for his eventual betrayal, and begun dealing with C.R.A.S.H. members behind the Grove Street Families' backs. While he claims that he bought the house in Idlewood with the money his aunt left him in her will, it is later denied by Kendl Johnson, stating that he most likely got the house with the money from his new allies.
- While he, Sweet, Carl and Ryder get attacked by a Ballas car near Cluckin' Bell, Smoke refuses to shoot at the Ballas and just keeps eating his food while claiming that he would only shoot when he was done eating, endangering his friends' life in the process.
- It's a possibility that when he yelled, "Hey, kill that a**hole!", he was ordering the Ballas to kill CJ or any of the others in the car.
- He uses CJ to get rid of some Vagos gang-members and Russian Mafia to ease his takeover.
- After CJ took back some of the Ballas's territories, Big Smoke arranges a trap with Ballas and the others where the Grove Street Families were to be destroyed by an ambush, thus attempting to kill both CJ and Sweet, which was only narrowly averted with CJ learning the truth and killing the Ballas.
- His betrayal causes Ballas and Vagos controlling over all the city and expand their drug dealing activities across the city, while Grove Street Families and Varrios Los Aztecas are heavily weakened and forced to commit gang wars in order to recover their headquarters back and clear them from drug dealers.
- His action of ambushing the Johnson brothers causes Sweet incarcerated where he would be potentially raped and murdered, and CJ getting exiled from Los Santos by Tenpenny to do his dirty works for him as well as committing numerous acts for various figures to get Sweet out of jail and recover his gang.
- With CJ and Sweet out of the way, Smoke allies himself with the Loco Syndicate from San Fierro to sell crack in Los Santos, thus gaining a lot of power, fear and money throughout the state.
- He sets up the Crack Palace in East Los Santos and forms a large coalition consisting of numerous Ballas, Vagos, San Fierro Rifa and Russian Mafia members as well as corrupt LSPD cops, in which the whole drug trafficking of San Andreas are being carried out in addition of some other businesses such as prostitution.
- When Ryder was killed by CJ, Big Smoke never mentioned him during his confrontation with CJ, showing he never cared for him and only turned him to make his betrayal easier.
- When CJ confronts him and tries to warn him that Tenpenny is using him and will dispose off him once Tenpenny gets what he wants, Big Smoke refuses to listen to him and starts a shootout in an attempt to kill him.
- During CJ's attack on his crack palace, Big Smoke does not assist his men and is solely engrossed in playing a video game, and despite not helping them he still cowardly calls for help during their shootout with CJ.
- Even after CJ mortally wounded him, Big Smoke shows no remorse for his crimes, or at least denies it, only boasting everyone would remember his name and saying that he didn't give a sh*t for his actions (Though his wording implies otherwise), with CJ's sister Kendl pointing out to her brothers that Smoke was always out for himself than for others.
- While he had several comedic moments in the beginning of the game, such as his comically large order at Cluckin' Bell, eating all of Ryder's food, yelling at Carl “You picked the wrong house, fool!”, telling him “Wassup man? Wanna go to prison?”, speaking Spanish during a drug deal, and running out of breath after trying to chase a Vagos member, he subverts them when he’s revealed to be a traitor.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He fails the Heinous Standards to Officer Frank Tenpenny and Catalina, the former who was only using him to sell drugs so that he would become more powerful and the latter who sold SPANK, an even more dangerous drug that turned people into suicidal living weapons.
- His final moments are played for sympathy. When CJ confronts him, Smoke boasts about his success in a way that sounds like he's trying to convince himself that everything he's done is worth it. This also includes having a sympathetic death, with CJ lamenting how far his former friend had fell due to greed and the fact that Tenpenny would have betrayed him anyway, due to him wanting to kill all gang leaders. It’s also implied he felt remorse but is too proud to admit it during his death, with him stating he got caught up in the money and power, saying he had no other choice than to betray the Grove Street Families and sell drugs.
- Additionally, we see that Smoke was initially hesitant to go along with Tenpenny’s plan, trying to find a way to spare Sweet, until being directly threatened with death in the Introduction, even with taking the money earlier in the story.
External Links[]
- Big Smoke on the Villains Wiki
- Big Smoke on the Grand Theft Auto Wiki
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