Trevor Philips: A Dual Personality

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Published on August 3, 2023 1:30:11 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGnKEn_tyH0

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Trevor Philips: A Dual Personality Between Violence and Vulnerability. Why the most despicable, unpredictable man in GTA 5 is also the most honest and sincere.

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Trevor should scare you, even at his most lighthearted, as he is a scary individual. The first scene in which we are introduced to Trevor is where he brutally murders Johnny, the protagonist from the GTA IV: The Lost and Damned expansion. That incident is swiftly followed by a rage-filled assault on every enemy Trevor has in Sandy Shores. Those sequence of events is possibly the greatest introduction to a character in any video game ever.

From the moment we take control of Trevor, we are thrust into the shoes of an absolute lunatic. Trevor makes no excuses for his violence, and the complete lack of pretense surrounding his violence is somewhat endearing.

The GTA franchise has always had violent characters, but they have all had a purpose, and justified violence as a means to an end. According to Trevor, he has accepted the fact that his path in life is to be a violent, murdering psychopath. That makes him more honest with himself than any other GTA character, as they always justify violence as a means to an end.

The major theory regarding Trevor's presence in GTA is that Rockstar created a character that was representative of their players' game personalities.

Ultimately, Trevor Phillips is a lot of things, but he is not a hypocrite. Or is he?

After the infamous torture sequence, Trevor takes the prisoner to the airport instead of shooting him like he was told to do by Steve Haines.

He explains along the way to Mr K (the prisoner) that he must be vocal about the injustices he faced in Los Santos, and that his struggle is important.

This seems almost hypocritical, as Trevor was the one torturing him, and now he's explaining why torture is unethical and needless. This might paint Trevor as a hypocrite as well, much like the rest of the characters. But, if you read further into his character, you'll know that the information that was extracted (or not) through torture was not important for Trevor.

There are two very distinct sides to Trevor Philips, though. On one hand, he’s an unhinged, spiteful bastard. On the other, he’s a man with strange sense of morality, a man with a layer of depth not obviously apparent at first.

In all these moments he’s actually slightly heart-warming in the weirdest kind of way. Still, as you know yourselves from nearly every other action he takes in the game, he’s clearly not a nice man. Not at all. In fact, he’s wretched. And while he is almost everything else that people have said of him so far – nasty, deranged, spiteful, dangerous, offensive – out of everyone in the game, to me, he’s the one with his head most screwed on. That’s simply because he’s the only one who recognises what he is.

It’s true that his take on the world is confronting and hard to stomach at times, and he’s so unpredictable that even as the player controlling him, moving him around this world, you feel like you have no idea what he’s going to do next, what he’s capable of, or even what his limit is. Yet when you compare Trevor to the other inhabitants of Los Santos – not just his partners in crime and mission givers, but also the city’s ugly, superficial population trying desperately to fit in – his simple ability to accept what he is somehow makes him the most honest character in a game about dishonest people. In-spite of all the horrific things this despicable man made me do, despite the way his sense of morality changed on a whim, it was his sense of accountability and self-awareness that made him the most fascinating in my eyes.

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