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Trevor Philips, Voiced by Steven Ogg
Protagonist

Trevor Philips

Voiced by Steven Ogg

Alive45 missions

Trevor Philips turns up in 45 of the 77 story missions, first in Prologue and last in The Third Way.

One of the three you switch between. The story is theirs.

Role
Protagonists
Voice actor
Steven Ogg
Status
Alive
Occupation
Arms and drugs trafficker
Affiliations
Not stated

Player notes

Trevor Philips joins Michael Townley, Brad Snider and a getaway driver in the 2004 robbery of a cash depot in Ludendorff, North Yankton. The escape collapses under police fire. Trevor shoots a guard who holds Michael at gunpoint, then watches Brad fall to an FIB bullet as Michael is also shot. Trevor flees through the snow after the getaway car is destroyed by a train, believing Michael has died and Brad has gone to prison.

Nine years later, Trevor runs guns and meth through Trevor Philips Industries from Sandy Shores with Ron Jakowski and Wade Hebert. News footage of Michael's appearance on Fame or Shame convinces him that Michael is alive in Los Santos. Before leaving Blaine County, Trevor kills Johnny Klebitz, drives The Lost from their camp, forces Ortega out of his territory, and destroys the O'Neil brothers' meth operation. He takes Wade south to find Michael.

At Michael's Rockford Hills house, Trevor reunites with him and meets Franklin Clinton. The three work for the FIB after Steve Haines and Dave Norton seize Michael, rescuing Ferdinand Kerimov and abducting Mr. K before Trevor tortures him for information. Trevor joins Michael and Franklin against the Ballas during Lamar Davis's deal, then helps plan the theft of a Merryweather device from a freighter or offshore test site. Lester Crest makes them return it when he learns it is nuclear hardware.

Trevor helps Michael and Franklin assemble equipment for the armored-car ambush known as Blitz Play. Afterward, he works with Franklin and the FIB against Devin Weston's targets, flies to intercept the plane carrying Martin Madrazo's cousin, and steals weapons from a Merryweather cargo plane before it crashes in the sea. He scouts Paleto Bay with Michael, acquires military hardware, and joins them and a gunman in robbing the Blaine County Savings Bank.

During further FIB work, Trevor tracks the escaped Mr. K with Michael and Franklin, hijacks a train carrying Merryweather cargo, and helps steal a nerve agent from the Humane Labs. He takes Patricia Madrazo from Martin Madrazo after the incident with the cargo plane, but returns her when Michael insists. Trevor also moves into Floyd Hebert's Vespucci Beach apartment, then kills Floyd and Debra before taking control of the Vanilla Unicorn.

Trevor, Michael and Franklin survey the Union Depository and prepare its robbery. Trevor learns that Brad is dead and that Michael arranged the Ludendorff betrayal with Dave Norton. He flies Michael to North Yankton, where they find Brad's grave and survive an attack by Triad gunmen. Back in Los Santos, Trevor breaks from Michael, then returns when Michael is captured by the Triads and Franklin calls him. He helps rescue Michael, fights the FIB and IAA at Kortz Center, and saves Lamar from the Ballas.

For the Union Depository robbery, Trevor secures the required vehicles and machinery, then pilots the crew's escape as they take the gold. When Devin Weston and Steve Haines try to turn Franklin against the other two, Franklin asks both men to meet him at the foundry. Trevor helps Michael and Franklin kill Stretch, Wei Cheng and Haines, hunts down Weston, and sends him over a cliff inside the trunk of his car with the three men leaving the foundry together.

Trivia

  • โ—†Trevor's character is somewhat similar to that of Paulie Gualtieri from The Sopranos.
  • โ—†Trevor shows loyalty to Michael, who is similar to Tony Soprano. Michael's kids also call Trevor 'uncle', much like Tony's kids do Paulie.
  • โ—†Trevor's 'Grown Out' hairstyle resembles that of Paulie.
  • โ—†Both have uneasy relationships with their mothers.
  • โ—†Both are seen sniffing women's underwear.
  • โ—†Both characters are referred to as being "psycho" and other similar terms.
  • โ—†Both get angry when their families' native countries are insulted (Trevor is Canadian and Paulie is Italian).
  • โ—†Trevor owns a strip club and used it as a base for his criminal operations, similar to how the DiMeo crime family used the Bada Bing! strip club.
  • โ—†Trevor's dedication to his mother and the fact that he can wear dresses may be a reference to Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror film Psycho.
  • โ—†In the Rush Casting Call, Trevor's character name was labelled as "Simon". Interestingly, Steven Ogg also portrayed a character named in .
  • โ—†Trevor's personality is likely based on the character Waingro from the movie Heat.
  • โ—†Trevor's initial backstory was that he grew up in the rural American backwoods. However, when Canadian actor Steven Ogg was hired to voice the character, the producers decided to work Ogg's thick Canadian accent into the character. As a result, Trevor's origins were changed, and the character was now purported to have grown up "near the Canadian border". Trevor's Canadian origins are something of an in-joke throughout the game, as numerous characters express anti-Canadian sentiment.
  • โ—†While Michael De Santa and Franklin Clinton have the ability to kindly greet people when the player presses , Trevor on the opposite hand can only taunt people, leading them to either run away or fight him.
  • โ—†Trevor also gives unique taunts to gang members, overweight people, homeless people, hipsters, the LSPD and the elderly.
  • โ—†Trevor can trigger unique responses from pedestrians by passing by them. Most of them are of a fearful nature commenting on his looks and hygiene. He can still receive these responses even if the player controls Michael or Franklin and hangs out with Trevor, in which case Trevor can respond back with insults.
  • โ—†In Trevor's trailer, there is a flag on the wall with the emblem of a special forces unit called the Special Airborne Unit with the Latin motto 'Confide Nemini'. This could have been the unit that he was training in before his discharge. Trevor can also buy a Lonewolf jacket from Sub Urban which has the same logo on the back.
  • โ—†Trevor gives several hints across the game that he enjoys older women. In the mission Hood Safari, if Trevor uses the Seashark that the stunt woman is tied on, he says "that's why I prefer older women" when she starts to scream. In the Strangers and Freaks mission Vinewood Souvenirs - The Last Act, he says to Al Di Napoli that "older women should be appreciated, like a fine cheese". Patricia Madrazo, the only woman in the game apart from his mother that he really likes and respects, is clearly older than him; she is later stated by Trevor to be 57. Mary-Ann Quinn is younger than him, but still pushing 40, and he develops an instant attraction to her; he does the same to Molly Schultz as well. On the other hand, Trevor can optionally set up booty calls with Ursula, a random character who is much younger than he is, as well as strippers from the Vanilla Unicorn who likewise are in their twenties.
  • โ—†He sometimes refers to his company's name as "Trevor Philips Industries" and "Trevor Philips Enterprises". Rarely, he can be heard saying "TP Conglomerate" like in the mission Scouting the Port.
  • โ—†Trevor's favorite radio station is Channel X. This can be assumed because during the mission Crystal Maze, upon hearing Non-Stop-Pop FM or "What a Fool Believes" on Los Santos Rock Radio playing, he exclaims that "the music's all wrong" and switches to Channel X which he says is "what [he's] looking for". Despite this, Los Santos Rock Radio plays on the radio in his trailer, Floyd apartment, and his liquor store/meth lab, suggesting he somewhat likes the station, but to a lesser extent than Channel X.
  • โ—†Judging from in-game animation, he also likes Rebel Radio.
  • โ—†Switching to Trevor from another character is a crapshoot. While Michael and Franklin will usually be involved in mundane tasks or simply driving around, Trevor is often in the midst of some unusual activities, from asking a homeless man if he would like a handjob to waking up drunk in a dress at the peak of Mount Gordo. One frequent scenario is being chased by the police; this further disables switching characters until the wanted level is dealt with.
  • โ—†The only time Trevor ever mentions his deceased brother Ryan is when talking to a man dressed as a zombie on Vinewood Boulevard in which he comments "You remind me of my brother Ryan.".
  • โ—†Trevor sleeps for the longest time of all the three protagonists. When saving the game as Trevor, the game skips ahead 12 hours. Franklin sleeps for 8, while Michael sleeps for 6. One of the withdrawal symptoms of methamphetamine is sleepiness and fatigue which may explain why he sleeps the longest.
  • โ—†The Lost MC bikers will always attack Trevor whenever he passes by them.
  • โ—†If the player visits the in-game website PsychicShoutout and speaks with Miss Marcy as Trevor, he will hold his own penis and ask her what he is holding in his hand. She will describe his penis as small, frayed with over use and special for him, making Trevor impressed that she guessed right. Miss Marcy will then ask Trevor if his mother is proud of him, which immediately makes Trevor very angry at her for mentioning his mother, he asks what she knows about his mother and if she is alive or coming through Miss Marcy. Miss Marcy then ends the conversation.
  • โ—†Sometimes, the LSPD can be heard taunting Trevor personally over the loudspeaker, shouting things like "Get down right now, Trevor!". This implies that he has had enough run-ins with the LSPD for them to know him personally.
  • โ—†Ironically, despite being the most violent of the trio and the most willing to take risks, Trevor fulfills the "less" dangerous role in three of the four heists in which he is involved. In the freighter option of The Merryweather Heist, he stays behind with the mini-submarine, while Michael and Franklin fight the soldiers. In Blitz Play, he stays back and provides cover again, while Franklin and Michael fight the police officers and in the obvious approach of The Big Score, he flies the chopper to transport the gold, while Michael simulates a robbery in the Union Depository and Franklin actually steals the gold. This could be because of his potent distrust in Michael, fearing that he could be betrayed once more by his former partner if he didn't have eyes on him at all times. However, it could simply be due to him being the most-skilled pilot of the group, as he was military-trained.
  • โ—†In Blitz Play, he says "As long as I am not on the ground when the shit goes down.".
  • โ—†Sometimes, when visiting Sandy Shores as Franklin or Michael, he can appear in his yard drunk, drinking alcohol and throwing grenades. If the player switches to Trevor while he is doing this, the grenades will disappear, and he will have sobered up.
  • โ—†The police will not react to him, even if he kills a sheriff. Also, Trevor will not stop throwing grenades, even if the player is in the way. Interestingly, his grenades will knock cars and trucks around, as the grenades are scripted to land in the same place.
  • โ—†During friendship activities with Franklin, Trevor reveals that if he was not expelled from school, he may have had a profession in the arts, such as a singer or an artist. He claims that he has something "very big" to tell the world but does not quite know what it is.
  • โ—†Trevor has a spade tattoo on his right forearm and a dagger tattoo on his left hand in his artworks, despite not having them in the final game. It is possible to buy two dagger tattoos in the game, one for each forearm. The dagger on his right forearm in the game is the one that is pictured on his left one in the artwork, and the dagger on his left forearm in the game has a dragon around it.
  • โ—†One of the daggers looks exactly like the knife in , another game made by Rockstar Games.
  • โ—†Only one of Trevor's default tattoos can be removed: "R.I.P Michael". This was most likely done so that players could remove/replace the tattoo once Trevor discovered that Michael was still alive, and after Trevor found out about Brad's death in Bury the Hatchet, the players would place the "Betraying Scroll" tattoo on his left chest.
  • โ—†Trevor's signature color is orange.
  • โ—†The selection of the protagonist's signature colors may also be a reflection of the character's personalities and/or their individual story arcs. Orange is the color of amusement, madness and danger, reflecting Trevor's chaotic and eccentric lifestyle, his destructive habits, his persistent dark humor, and his general tendency to be a public menace.
  • โ—†Trevor can wear Patricia Madrazo's clothes, as they are found in his wardrobe. They could be a symbol of remembrance to him of Patricia or suggest he likes wearing women's clothing, as he can also wear dresses.
  • โ—†Unlike Michael and Franklin, on the Social Club Overview page, Trevor's business card amusingly states "None of your business card".
  • โ—†Despite being scared of clowns, Trevor can get a large tattoo of a clown on his torso with some text reading "Sleep Tight!".
  • โ—†It is possible to see Trevor's genitals when he is wearing a dress, making it the second instance in Grand Theft Auto history that genitalia are exposed, after Thomas Stubbs III during the cutscene of Politics in The Lost and Damned. They are also briefly seen in the opening cutscene of Scouting the Port, as well as being able to be seen in By the Book if the player starts the mission as Michael.
  • โ—†When following him as Franklin or Michael for too long, he will headbutt either of them.
  • โ—†This is in contrast to Michael and Franklin, when following them as controlling another protagonist, Michael or Franklin (depends on who is being followed) will punch whoever is being controlled.
  • โ—†There are several instances where Trevor's death is foreshadowed, by others or even himself โ€” all of which reference the alternate ending mission Something Sensible in some way.
  • โ—†In one of his dialogues when talking to a random pedestrian, or when driving a vehicle and flipping off a random driver, he may say "Why hasn't someone sensible shot you yet?".
  • โ—†During the mission By the Book, if Trevor chooses not to inject Kerimov with the adrenaline shot after he loses consciousness from being tortured, a unique "Mission Failed" cutscene will play where Steve Haines will notice that Mr. K has died, and after a brief argument with Trevor, he will end the confrontation saying "Because soon, I'll put an end to your little charade..." before leaving. This is a hint towards Steve's view of Trevor as a liability and thus the reason he ordered Franklin to kill him, deeming him too "uncontrollable" and "insane."
  • โ—†In GTA Online, during the heist setup mission Series A - Steal Meth, Trevor will warn the player after stealing the tanker that the meth juice inside is really flammable, and to try and not let the O'Neil Brothers shoot it too much. He then brushes off this danger with the sarcastic remark "But, hey, it's your flaming carcass, not mine.".
  • โ—†If Trevor meets Franklin before The Merryweather Heist, Franklin will become hostile and shoot Trevor, and vice versa.
  • โ—†If Trevor meets Franklin after The Time's Come, Trevor will refer to Franklin as a "traitor" and threaten him.
  • โ—†When viewing Trevor's "Mullet" hairstyle in the mirror, his bald spot has more hair on top, similar to how he wore his hair in 2004.
  • โ—†According to himself, he was dead for five minutes after putting an axe into a power cable.
  • โ—†Trevor is the least likely to change clothes automatically when switching characters, showing his little regard for hygiene or cleanliness.
  • โ—†Trevor holds the position as the only GTA protagonist to have canonically killed another protagonist, as he murdered Johnny Klebitz, protagonist of The Lost and Damned.
  • โ—†Trevor is the protagonist who encounters most other protagonists in the series, that being four (Michael De Santa, Johnny Klebitz, Franklin Clinton, and the GTA Online Protagonist).
  • โ—†Unique to Trevor, he expresses anger when calling a phone number only to hear the "busy" tone, yelling quotes such as "Bullshit!" or "Well, I'll be fucked!". These quotes are the same as when the player runs out of ammunition for a weapon, or when an angry NPC is trying to attack him while he is in a vehicle.
  • โ—†In the opening cutscene for By The Book in which Michael arrives first, Trevor briefly talks about his shape as result of his meth use, claiming "I could still take you, sugar tits". Originally, Trevor instead; however, this was dubbed over with "sugar tits" in the final version of the cutscene audio (mastered version). Leftovers of this dialogue can be found in individual scripted mission audio files for the mission, as well as on YouTube.

Story missions

45 missions
All missions

In story order, numbered as they are on the mission list. Not all of these are missions they hand you; some they only appear in.

1
PrologueLudendorff, North Yankton
16
Mr. PhilipsTrevor Philips
17
Nervous RonTrevor Philips
18
Trevor Philips IndustriesTao Cheng
19
Crystal MazeTao Cheng
20
Friends ReunitedTrevor Philips
23
Three's CompanyFederal Investigation Bureau/Dave Norton
24
By the BookFederal Investigation Bureau/Steve Haines
25
Scouting The PortTrevor Philips
26
MinisubTrevor Philips
27
CargobobTrevor Philips
28
The Merryweather HeistHeists
30
Hood SafariLamar Davis
36
Blitz Play IntroFederal Investigation Bureau/Steve Haines
37
MasksFederal Investigation Bureau/Heist Setups
38
Boiler SuitsFederal Investigation Bureau/Heist Setups
39
Trash TruckFederal Investigation Bureau/Heist Setups
40
Tow TruckFederal Investigation Bureau/Heist Setups
41
Blitz PlayHeists
42
I Fought The Law...Devin Weston
43
Eye In The SkyDevin Weston
45
Caida LibreMartin Madrazo
47
Minor TurbulenceTrevor Philips
48
Paleto Score SetupFederal Investigation Bureau/Steve Haines
49
Military HardwareFederal Investigation Bureau/Steve Haines
50
PredatorTrevor Philips
51
The Paleto ScoreHeists
52
DerailedTrevor Philips
53
Monkey BusinessFederal Investigation Bureau/Steve Haines
54
Hang TenTrevor Philips
55
Surveying The ScoreTrevor Philips
56
Bury the HatchetMichael De Santa
57
Pack ManDevin Weston
58
Fresh MeatFranklin Clinton
62
Reuniting the FamilyMichael De Santa
64
The Wrap UpFederal Investigation Bureau/Dave Norton
65
Lamar DownFranklin Clinton
69
Planning the Big ScoreLester Crest
70
StingersLester Crest
72
DrillerLester Crest
73
SidetrackedLester Crest
74
The Big ScoreHeists
75
Something SensibleFederal Investigation Bureau/Steve Haines
76
The Time's ComeDevin Weston
77
The Third WayLester Crest

Shares missions with

The characters who appear in the most of the same missions.

Michael De Santa37 shared missions
Franklin Clinton30 shared missions
Lester Crest15 shared missions
Dave Norton12 shared missions
Patricia Madrazo10 shared missions
Ron Jakowski10 shared missions
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