Carl Johnson

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This Protagonist was Headlined on October 2014.

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Do-gooder

Full Name

Carl Johnson

Alias

CJ
Big CJ (by dealer; by himself if fat)
Big Daddy (by himself)
Baby (by Smoke & girlfriends)
Dog (by Smoke)
Busta (by Ryder)
Mr. Right (by Ryder)
Mr. Driver (by Ryder)
Relative (by GSF)
Playboy (by GSF)
Romeo (by Denise)
Carlito (by Catalina)
Mr. C-to-the-J (by Jizzy)
Partner (by Woozie)
Skiny ass (by LSPD)
Girlie (by LSPD)
Dooshy (by SAPD)
Gopher (by cabbie)
Piggy (by Benny)
Benny (by Millie)
Honey (by Millie & SFPD)
Sugar (by Helena)
Loverboy (by Katie)
Tough Guy (by Katie)
Young Man (by Barbara)
Babe (by Barbara)
Mr. Johnson (by Barbara & loanshark)

Origin

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Occupation

GSF lieutenant

Madd Dogg's manager

Powers / Skills

Stealth
Tracking
High intelligence
Superior athleticism
Advanced charisma
Parkour capabilities
Business management
Assassination skills
Criminal mastermind
Hand-to-hand combatant
Gunmanship
Marksmanship
Swordsmanship
Weaponry expertise
Aviation intuition
Sailing intuition
Stealth tactician
Vehicular intuition
Escape artist
Intimidation
Interrogation
Manipulation
Hijacking
Persuasion
Vast connections
Vast wealth
Various weaponry

Hobby

Various

Goals

Avenge Beverly.

Destroy drug market.
Free Sweet from prison.
Protect Kendl.
Rob Caligula's.
Regain Cesar's 'hood.
Help Madd Dogg.
Kill Big Smoke.
Destroy CRASH.
(all succeeded)

Family

Mr. Johnson (father)

Beverly Johnson † (mother)
Sweet Johnson (big brother)
Kendl Johnson (little sister)
Brian Johnson † (little brother)

Enemies

Frank Tenpenny (archenemy) †
Eddie Pulaski (second archenemy) †
Big Smoke †
Ryder †
Jimmy Hernandez † (formerly)
Sweet Johnson (formerly)
Catalina
Claude
OG Loc
Jizzy B.
T-Bone Mendez
Salvatore Leone
B Dup
Snakehead
Ballas
Los Santos Vagos
Russian Mafia
C.R.A.S.H.
San Andreas Police Department (sometimes)
Loco Syndicate
San Fierro Rifa
Da Nang Boys
Leone Crime Family
Forelli Crime Family
Sindacco Crime Family

Type of Hero

Anti-Heroic Gangster

Carl Johnson, better known by name as CJ, is the main protagonist of the 2004 action adventure video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the seventh installment of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.

He is a co-leader of the Grove Street Families (GSF), along with his brother, Sean "Sweet" Johnson. GSF is a criminal gang dedicated to the alleged marijuana trafficking, arms smuggling, and bank robberies, but the gang is fully opposed to drug dealing like their rivals in the Ballas and Los Santos Vagos. Sweet suggested that CJ was born in the Johnson House, a two-floor home in Grove Street, a cul-de-sac in Ganton, Los Santos, which was owned by the Johnson family matriarch, Beverly Johnson. Carl is the second child of a family of four (in birth order): Sean, Carl, Kendl, and Brian.

Five years prior to the beginning of the game, CJ left San Andreas and took up work in Liberty City out of discontent for the degrading situation of Los Santos, which happened shortly after the death of his brother Brian and Sweet blaming CJ for it. There, in Liberty City, he earned his living working for the Leone Family Mafia, doing work for Don Salvatore Leone's son Joey. As the game opens, CJ arrives back in Los Santos following news of his mother Beverly's death in a drive-by shooting by the rival Ballas gang, only to be located by corrupt Los Santos Police Department (LSPD) C.R.A.S.H. (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) task force officers Frank Tenpenny, Eddie Pulaski, and Jimmy Hernandez, who immediately framed him for their recent murder of a fellow police officer, Ralph Pendlebury, who threatened to expose their illegal racketeering to Internal Affairs and have them arrested and thrown off the force for their corrupt actions.

He is voiced by Young Maylay.

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