James May

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* 1999
* 2015

**James Daniel May** (born **16th January 1963**) is a English presenter known for his role in Top Gear. In Canon, he works as a news anchor while at the same time working as a extractor for people who are wanting to get a new identity. He is a TSM Character and the first TSM Character to be based of an actual person.

## History

### Background Information (Pre canon)

James Daniel May was born in Bristol, England on January 16th, 1963. In the early 1980s, he became sub-editor from many motoring magazines, including writing articles for the *Top Gear* Magazine. In 1992, he was dismissed from *Autocar* magazine after putting together a secret message within one of the issues which said: ***So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse***. In 1999, he joined the original Top Gear format show which started in 1977, to which he left the same year. In 2003, he replaced Jason Dawe as co host for the 2002 Top Gear format, alongside Jeremy Clarkson (who also appeared on the original format) and Richard Hammond. In 2015, after the dismissal of Jeremy Clarkson after an incident which resulted in him psychical assaulting a producer, He and Hammond left alongside Clarkson and struck a deal with Amazon Prime to present The Grand Tour in 2016 with the trio announcing in 2023 that they would leave The Grand Tour, a week after Top Gear was shelved after an accident while filming.

### Canon

He moved to Arizona where he opened up Best Quality Vacuum, which helped him enter the extracting business. He also joined BBC News which would help him extend his service further by providing believable false information about his clients. He has connections with Saul Goodman and Moron to help him get clients who are needing of help.

## May's Rules

For his extraction business, he has many rules that his clients need to follow, which include:

* You NEED to pay a full payment of 500k in whatever currency you use for his services, whether its **Basic** or **Deluxe**.
	+ **Basic** is where May will provide you with a new ID and personal details and will drop you off to your location and wont keep in contact with you.
	+ **Deluxe** works similarly to the Basic. Only this time, as the client is wanted worldwide, he will put them in a secluded area where he will do monthly supply drops to prevent the risk of the client getting found. He also has hired additional associates to keep tabs on the client if anything changes.
* You must say a paraphrase for him to help you.
	+ However this can be flexible.
* In Deluxe, if anyone visits the client that wasn't part of the deal, May will immediately severe all ties with the client for his own safety.
* The client will be given a new ID and personal details, which they have to remember.
* He will allow the client to pick wherever they want to go. For example, when Negative asked if she can be extracted to Utah, May said that he would see what he could do.
* He offers refunds if the client drops out before the extraction.
* He allows to re-extract a client if their identity has been compromised. However, it costs twice as much (1 Million) and will be extremely difficult.

## Trivia

### Trivia:

* While his main service is extracting criminals, its implied he may have other services he operates through his clients.
* He is one of the few TSM criminals to have not killed anyone or mentioned to have killed anyone before arriving to Leyton Colt:
	+ Moron has had multiple kills but they end up getting reversed or made completely uncanon. However, there have been kills that havent been reversed. It is, however, never mentioned or implied that he had killed anyone before arriving to Leyton, as his uprising as a gangland boss mostly started in Leyton.
	+ Moronberg and Corrupted have also had their kills reversed.
	+ Elon Musk has killed 3 people (Moronberg's was reversed after Genesis went back in time to save him, which changed the timeline).
	+ Lalo Black has mentioned to have killed people before arriving in Leyton, with his kill count being 40+.
* He is probably one of the most reliable and useful criminals out there as he doesnt extract people for bad or his own greed.

### Real life trivia:

* Alongside Clarkson, he was also one of the rotating presenters of the original Top Gear format (although he appeared after Clarkson left). In the 2002 revived format for the show, May was not in Series 1 but instead joined in Series 2, replacing Jason Dawe, this forming the trio being Clarkson, Hammond and May. This trio stayed as the format for the show but after Clarksons dismissal from the BBC, many crew members of Top Gear left, some leaving alongside Clarkson. May and Hammond were offered to stay on the show but they left alongside Clarkson and presented The Grand Tour after striking a deal with Amazon. The Grand Tour received much more reception than the new Top Gear, which saw a decline in viewership after the trio was replaced and in 2023, would be shelved following an accident with one of it's presenters. Then, a week later, it was announced that Clarkson, Hammond and May would leave The Grand Tour.
* He, along with Clarkson and Hammond, returned to Top Gear in 2021 for a one off appearance in an episode dedicated to Sabine Schmitz, a frequent guest who would then later become a presenter of the show, who passed away on 16th March 2021.