Mike Toreno

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## Magnificent Baddie

### Allies

Carl Johnson
Unknown government agency
Loco Syndicate (leader, formerly)

### Powers/Skills

High intelligence
Charisma
Intimidation
Manipulation
Resources
Crime intuition
Vast connections

### Goals

Balance the criminal system across San Andreas.
Weaken and eliminate his rival and enemy agencies.
Have Carl Johnson serve for him for a while (all mostly succeeded).
Ensure the maintenance of American socioeconomic system with the continued survival of the free world.

### Crimes

Organized crime
Mass murder by proxy
Mass destruction by proxy
Theft
Blackmail
Stalking
Drug dealing

### Type of MB

Enigmatic Extremist

**Mike Toreno** is a major character and the overarching antagonist of the 2004 video game *Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas*, the seventh installment of the *Grand Theft Auto* video game series.

He is an enigmatic figure who is initially presented as the leader of the Loco Syndicate organization, but is later revealed to be an undercover agent working for an unknown "government agency", which aims to ensure the maintenance of the country with the effort of balancing the crime system across America.

He is voiced by James Woods.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He is initially presented as a powerful crime lord who leads the Loco Syndicate, a drug enterprise that controls most of the drug trafficking operations across San Andreas and works with the influential figures such as Big Smoke, Ryder (both working with Ballas and Vagos), Jizzy B. (owner of the Pleasure Domes) T-Bone Mendez (leader of San Fierro Rifa).
* As an individual, he remains too mysterious despite being on the top of a criminal organization, being only known by few people and even not specified by the powerful figures of the San Fierro Triads.
* He organizes his own saving operation by calling T-Bone Mendez and CJ and making them locate his location with the phone signals, when he is kidnapped by Da Nang Boys who are stealing one of the syndicate's drug vans.
* While his fellow partners T-Bone and Jizzy are killed by Carl Johnson, he fakes his own death by manipulating Carl into destroy a helicopter, which is supposed to have Toreno alongside his guards.
* He later reveals himself alive and to be an undercover agent working for an unknown government agency, infiltrating the Loco Syndicate to balance the criminal system across the state and control the organizations.
* He hires Carl to make them some work for him with the promise of releasing Sweet from the jail, these tasks include destroying rival agencies' aircraft and boats, weakening them to expand their actions across the globe. He also makes Carl being a skilled pilot to later use him for his own tasks.
* While he was jerkish towards Carl initially, he later subverts it upon seeing Carl's competence and displays honor to him, eventually fulfilling his promise of releasing Sweet from jail once Carl has done all the works Toreno has given.
* He ultimately accomplishes all of his goals and never receives any comeuppance from anyone, making him one of the most successful characters of the whole franchise.
* Despite having brutal methods, he generally acts as a well-intentioned extremist whose true goal is to ensure the maintenance of the America and protecting it from the inner and outer threats.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* As an extremist, he is very prone to resort extremely lethal and destructive ways to fulfill his goals, as most of his assignments are generally about ordering Carl to destroying federal properties and murdering officials -that could have potentially caused international indicents- without feeling any remorse.

## External Links

* Mike Toreno at the Inconsistently Admirable wiki
* Mike Toreno at the Villains wiki
* Mike Toreno at the Heroes wiki
* Mike Toreno at the *Grand Theft Auto* wiki