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| “ | YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE, FOOL! | „ |
| ~ Big Smoke's first and most famous quote |
| “ | CJ: Hey, Smoke, what made you flip out like that, man? Was it the drugs or what? Big Smoke: I got caught up in the money, the power... I don't give a s**t, oh f**k man... CJ: Why you just didn't quit, man? We was like family, homie. Big Smoke: I had no choice, I had to do it... I just see the opportunity. Oh! When I'm gone, everyone gonna remember my name... Big Smoke! |
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| ~ 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 is one of Carl Johnson's friends and a member of the Grove Street Families, one of the most renowned criminal gangs of Los Santos, San Andreas. While posing as a helpful ally to CJ and his brother Sweet during the events of the game, Smoke has secretly allied with Officer 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?[]
- Sometime before the events of the game, Smoke allied himself with C.R.A.S.H. as well as the Ballas, even after Sweet made it clear he didn't want the Grove Street Families to sell drugs.
- Whilst he was initially remorseful, as Tenpenny mockingly described him as having been crying, he (mostly) subverts this as he attempts to have the Johnson brothers killed numerous times.
- Although Tenpenny threatened him into joining, he also seduces Smoke with money and power, which he eventually accepts.
- He also convinced Ryder, another high-ranking member of the gang and a close friend, to betray Grove Street Families.
- He fakes showing sorrow or sympathy for Beverly's death so that Sweet doesn't suspect him.
- He is in the house during Beverly's funeral implicitly to ambush and kill Sweet, before being surprised by the unexpected arrival of CJ, causing him to change his plans and instead claim he is on his side.
- 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 yells, "Hey, kill that asshole!", he is 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.
- He, knowing that the motel is going to be assaulted by CRASH, nonetheless allows the Johnson brothers to enter and abandons them.
- Whilst he returns and saved them, this is only out of pragmatism, as he is (correctly) aware of just how capable CJ is and, in rescuing his brother, would likely have Smoke and Ryder killed for abandoning them as well as constantly trying to push drugs and questioning Sweet's leadership.
- After CJ takes back some of the Ballas' territories, Smoke arranges a trap with Ballas and the others where the Grove Street Families are to be destroyed by an ambush, thus attempting to kill both CJ and Sweet, which is only narrowly averted with CJ learning the truth and killing the Ballas.
- This ambush (Which Smoke set up), causes the deaths of numerous Grove Street gang members, and leaves Sweet heavily injured because of the gunshots.
- His betrayal causes the Ballas and the Vagos to control the entire city and expand their drug dealing activities across the city, with Grove Street Families and Varrios Los Aztecas being 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 to be incarcerated where he is 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 people 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 police officers, with him leading this entire coalition, in which the whole drug trafficking of San Andreas is being carried out in addition of some other businesses such as prostitution.
- Despite speaking on the radio about how he is using his wealth to stop the drug trade rampaging in Los Santos, it is a lie as he was the one behind it in the first place.
- Overall, Big Smoke is one of the main reasons why, Los Santos is so flooded with drugs.
- When Ryder is killed by CJ, Smoke never mentioned him during his confrontation with CJ, showing he never cared for him and only turned him to make his betrayal easier.
- Whilst he is described as going crazy when Ryder died, this was only because he could trust Ryder, as opposed to caring about him.
- 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, Smoke refuses to listen to him and starts a shootout in an attempt to kill him.
- During CJ's attack on his crack palace, 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 wounds him, Smoke shows no remorse for his crimes, or at least denies it, only boasting everyone would remember his name and saying that he doesn’t give a shit 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 rather than for others.
- While he has 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 in broken 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 Tenpenny and Catalina, the former who is only using him to sell drugs so that he can become more powerful, and the latter who sells SPANK, an even more dangerous drug that turns people into suicidal living weapons in one instance.
- His final moments are played for sympathy. When CJ confronts him, he finds that Smoke has gotten so high off crack that he's become a paranoid shell of his former self and is eager to either kill CJ or die by his hand. Smoke then 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 makes him come across as pitiful.
- 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 in San Andreas.
- It’s also implied he feels remorse but is too proud to admit it during his death, with him stating he got caught up in the money and power, and saying he had no other choice than to betray the Grove Street Families and sell drugs.
External Links[]
- Big Smoke on the Villains Wiki
- Big Smoke on the Grand Theft Auto Wiki
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