Niko Bellic

Niko Bellic is a character originally from Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV set to feature in upcoming YMM game Mortal Qombat as a playable character, aligned with the Neutral Guys and Death.
== History ==
=== Prior to GTA IV ===
Niko grew up in Yugoslavia to a poor family that included his cousin Roman Bellic.
At some point Bellic joined the Yugoslavian army where he served for a number of years. He spent most of his time there in a unit made up entirely of 14 of his close friends who grew up together. During this time his unit witnessed a number of atrocities that stuck with them.
Eventually tragedy struck when an act of betrayal meant that 12 of the 15 members of the unit were killed; leaving only Niko Bellic, Flaurian Cravic and Darko Brevic alive.
Niko’s cousin Roman emigrated out of Yugoslavia to pursue “The American Dream” in Liberty City. After this he continued stay in contact with his family back home telling them of his great success and his masses of wealth.
For an unknown period of time, Niko worked for a criminal named Ray Bulgarin as a human trafficker smuggling people into Italy from Eastern Europe until the ship he was on sank and he was blamed.
Bellic was determined to get revenge. Knowing that the one who betrayed his unit must either be Florian or Darko, he decided to go him self to Liberty City in search of Cravic, as that is where he had reportedly ended up.
=== The Events of GTA IV ===
Niko arrived in Liberty City under the pretence of following his cousin in search of the American dream; only to find that Roman had been lying about his success all along. Instead of sports cars and “titties”, Roman was the owner of a run-down cab company operating out of Hove Beach in the borrow of Broker and in massive dept to several shady characters.
Upon learning of Roman’s dept, Niko pledged to help him. He defended Roman from a loan shark by the name of Dardan, killing him in the process. Niko was also forced to work off some of Roman’s dept by following the orders of criminal lone shark Vladimir Glebov. Bellic worked for Vlad for a while before learning of his affair with Roman‘s girlfriend Mallory, after this he chased Vlad to a quiet location before assassinating him.
Niko and Roman were both Kidnapped by Vlad’s boss Mikhael Faustin and his right hand man Dimitri Rascalov. To make up for killing Vlad, Bellic now had to work for Faustin alongside a sympathetic Dimitri. This culminated in Faustin upsetting the wrong people; Niko under the instructions of Dimitri, assassinated Faustin in his own cabaret club to prevent a fight between Russian gangs.
Dimitri revealed himself to be traitor as Niko is informed that all along Rascalov has been working with Niko’s old enemy Ray Bulgarin. Rascalov chased them Bellic cousins out of Broker, burning down their apartment safehouse and Roman’s cab depot in the process. The pair took refuge in a safehouse Mallory provided in South Bohan.
The Bellic cousins worked to get back on their feet with Roman rebuilding his business while Niko continued to work for local criminals around the city to provide a fast sorce of income. Working with different gangs eventually lead him to coming into contact with an Italian-American gangster called Ray Boccino. Ray promised that he could locate Florian Cravic for Bellic if he for him. After doing so, Boccino made good on his deal and helped him find Cravic in Algonquin. Bellic thought he had hit a dead end when upon locating Cravic he found that Florian was not the traitor after all and was now a harmless and extremely flamboyant homosexual going by the name of Bernie Crane. This lead Niko to the realisation that Darko Brevic was the traitor all along, but Brevic’s location was unknown and Niko’s endeavours in Liberty City had been fruitless all along.
Boccino got Bellic in contact with his boss Jimmy Pegorino based out of Alderney and Niko started working jobs for the Pegorino Family. Meanwhile a contact from Internal affairs rewards the work Niko has done for them by locating and delivering a captured Darko Brevic to him from overseas. Bellic confronts Brevic and decides whether to kill him or let him go.
After confronting Brevic, Niko is ordered by Pegorino to do one last job for him involving working with sworn enemy Dimitri Rascalov. Bellic is left to make the important decision to attempt to work with a Dimitri or to hunt him down and kill him instead. Bellic chooses not to trust Rascalov and finds him in the bowels of the ship Niko arrived on, Niko then seizes his moment and kills Dimitri. This decision comes back to bite Niko as a vengeful Pegorino makes an assassination attempt at Roman’s wedding to Mallory, firing upon the unsuspecting crowd. Bellic’s girlfriend Kate is killed in the crossfire.
Following a brief period of mourning, Bellic plots revenge along side ally and friend Little Jacob with Roman insisting on coming along with them. Together they tail a mafia car to the warehouse Pegorino is camped out in. A shootout ensues as Niko goes in alone to take out Jimmy personally. After a lengthy chase with Bellic following Pegorino in a boat from a motorbike upon the shore, Niko jumps onto a helicopter Jacob & Roman have obtained. Together they pursue Jimmy to Happiness island where Niko catches up with Jimmy and assassinates him in the shadow of the Statue of Happiness.
=== Following the events GTA IV ===
After the end of the game, Niko attempts to settle down and leave his life of crime behind him. He joins Roman in ownership of the Cab depot and they make a comfortable life taking advantage of the wealth he had accumulated from his criminal acts to give themselves a decent head start in the business. He kept his weapons on him at most times in case trouble started but in general they were both successful and finally free of the life they wanted to leave behind.
=== Mortal Qombat ===
something something something... Niko ends up in Mortal Qombat somehow. and his goal is to do whatever it takes to get home and maybe to make some money in the process.
== Abilities ==
=== Marksmanship ===
Niko has expert accuracy with a number of firearms, able to take on tens of armed enemies against the odds by himself and come out unscathed.
=== Military Combat ===
As a former soldier, Bellic received standard combat training courtesy of the Yugoslavian army. He is able to hold his own in any hand to hand fight and down multiple opponents one after the other.
=== Adept Driving Prowess ===
Niko Bellic is an exceptionally good driver. He is able expertly drive any automobile or motorbike, sail any boat and pilot any helicopter he comes across. Seemingly without any prior training.
He is able to competently compete in street races, and lose the police and evade hostile vehicles on the congested and busy streets of Liberty City.
=== Hammer Space ===
Niko is just a man, a man with two hands and two normal sized trouser pockets; Reguardless of this fact, Niko is seen to carry around Baseball bats, RPGs, AK-47s and other firearms simultaneously without carrying any form of bag. He seems to be able to keep all of these items in his pockets.
=== Health Regeneration ===
Niko seems to be returned completely to full health upon eating any food. He can commonly be seen ordering even the cheapest menu items from Burger Shot or Cluckin’ Bell and being fully healed immediately afterwards.
=== Cheat Codes ===
Via is mobile phone, the Mung Hackr, Niko is able to alter the world around him with unnatural powers. By ringing certain numbers in his cell phone, he is able to activate several god-like powers that can give him the edge on anyone he goes up against.
He is able to fully regain health, grant himself body armour, make a full arsenal of weapons materialise on his person, make the police forget about him or increase their aggravation, alter the weather and spawn in a multitude of vehicles.
== External Links ==
* Niko Bellic on Wikipedia
* Niko Bellic on the Grand Theft Auto Wiki
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