Frank Tenpenny

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## Evil-doer

* Original
* Remastered

### Alias

Officer Tenpenny
Tenpenny
Frankie

### Allies

Jimmy Hernandez
Ralph Pendelbury
Carl Johnson  (pawn)
The Truth (all formerly)
LSPD
C.R.A.S.H.
Ballas
Eddie Pulaski  (right hand)
Big Smoke
Ryder

### Resources

High intelligence
Marksmanship
Blackmailing
Manipulation
Resources
Strength
Police training

### Goals

Kill CJ and Sweet.
Get rid of everyone that threatens to expose his corruption (both failed).
Have Jimmy Hernandez and Ralph Pendelbury killed (succeeded).

### Moral Event Horizon

Making Big Smoke and Ryder betray the Grove Street Families.
Overseeing the murder of Beverly Johnson.
Ordering CJ to kill everyone that can expose his corruption.

### Kill Count

None (directly)
Unknown, but high (indirectly)
1 (attempted)

### Crimes

Corruption
Blackmail
Kidnapping
Terrorism
Attempted murder
Public endangerment
Forgery
Mass murder by proxy
Incrimination
Conspiracy
Assault
Vandalism
Property damage
Stalking
Drug abuse
Drug trafficking
Reckless driving
Racketeering
Multiple sexual assaults
Torture
Extortion
Rape
Adultery
Arson
Incitement
Abuse of power

### Type of Villain

Hypocritical Official

**Officer Frank Tenpenny** is the main antagonist of *Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas*, the seventh installment of the *Grand Theft Auto* video game series.

He is an awfully corrupt police officer and the leader of the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums. He is the reason for two members of the Grove Street Families, Big Smoke and Ryder, betraying said gang. His main goal is to get rid of everyone that has some evidence of his corruption. He is the archenemy of the game's main protagonist, Carl "CJ" Johnson.

He was voiced by Samuel L. Jackson.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* Even by *Grand Theft Auto* standards, Tenpenny is an extremely corrupt officer, who often forces others to kill those who had dirt on him.
* His unit, C.R.A.S.H., works with a gang called the Ballas, who deals crack.
* He managed to get Big Smoke, a member of the Grove Street Families, to betray the gang. Big Smoke himself got Ryder on his side.
* He ordered the murder of Carl Johnson's mother, Beverly.
* He forces a recruit, Jimmy Hernandez, to kill fellow officer, Ralph Pendelbury, for having dirt on him and his right hand man, Eddie Pulaski.
* With Pulaski's help, he plants false evidence that links CJ to Ralph's murder and forces him to do their dirty work.
* He arrests CJ and takes his money for no reason, as he didn't do any crimes in Los Santos for five years and barely returned to the city, and drops him off in a place controlled by the rival gang Ballas.
* He kidnaps CJ after a large gang assault and drive him miles away from Los Santos. He and Pulaski tell him to stay away from Big Smoke or Sweet, who is in jail, and will be put in a Balla cell block, where he will presumably be raped and/or murdered.
* Once in a while, he and his fellow crooked officers appear to tell CJ to kill someone who has evidence of their corruption.
* He knocks out Hernandez for working with the Internal Affairs and tells CJ to bury both him and himself as he outlived his usefulness.
* He has done and possesses drugs.
* While he did have a wife, he cheated on her as shown through him committing sexual assaults on other women.
* After being acquitted as all of the prosecution's witnesses have died or gone missing, a large riot breaks out over all of Los Santos, and although Tenpenny couldn't have known this would happen and had no intentions of starting a riot, he still remained apathetic.
* He plans to leave San Andreas by plane with his drug money.
* After CJ kills Big Smoke, Tenpenny tries to kill him.
* He sets Big Smoke's crack palace on fire, hoping that CJ will die.
* He tries to escape from CJ in a Los Santos-wide chase.
* During final moments he shows no remorse for his actions, as he firmly believed that he was right and that he "protected" Los Santos.
* While he does have comedic moments, his actions are taken seriously and don’t detract from his heinousness, with him being universally hated by everyone in the game.
* While Toni Cipriani and even Carl himself both did worse, Tenpenny still stands out due to murdering an innocent person's mother and killing less people with fewer resources than Toni and Carl. Thus, he does not fail the heinous standards.