FYI during the initial loading screen when Tenpenny comes up you can see the bottom half of the eagle, globe, and anchor USMC tattoo. Which I'd say it was safe to assume that he's also a Vietnam vet.
I'm fully convinced Samuel L Jackson will do any role as long as he gets to say mothafucka at least once. I don't remember if tenpenny ever says it but I wouldn't doubt it
Tenpenny is probably the best antagonist in GTA. He's not cartoonish or parody, he's just a cop gone bad. To be a black police officer since at least the 80s, you get the idea that it ate away at him.
Definitely best antagonist in the series, Dan Houser writes his characters like no other and they get the best vocie actors to breath life into them, Samuel Jackson played the role extremely well. Only one that holds a candle to him is Dutch in RDR, a genuine guy that set out to right wrongs in society and eventually ended up turning himself. Honestly, all of this game's characters have so much life and realness to them, there hasn't been a GTA game like San Andreas before or since and there probably never will be.
About the origins of Tenpenny's corruption, in the last mission after Tenpenny orders CJ to pack Big Smoke's money and to escape the city, CJ tells Tenpenny that he lost it and that he's gone, which suggests that he actually used to be a legitimate officer before CJ's departure for Liberty City
i wish we got a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas stories prequal game the map is just set in one location Los Santos and surrounding countryside. An the story set during the golden years of grove street and what led too the events in the original game. How offcer tenpenny slowly went from a respectable cop to what he is in the first game.
This new GTA game may be a San Andreas Stories for us, with the ending connecting the 3D era GTA games to the HD era GTA games. I know their not canon but it would be cool. The first half be a prequel to GTA San Andreas 3D era games. With the final half connecting to the HD era games like GTA V.
This guy is the best GTA villain hands down, his personality, motives, real world influences, and him not acting too cartoonish like the GTA 5 villains really puts him at the top
@@WoddCar so you're telling me we don't have wacky billionaires who think everything could be bought with money ,and that working for them is a great honor in their eyes.
He’s an amazing villain. With how his character manipulates people into doing his dirty work and while always present, feels like he’s untouchable . Also the poetic justice in him dying to his own hubris is just chef’s kiss. Bringing Hernandez into the fold ended up blowing up in his face.
Also Vito Scaletta and maybe a gta biographies expansion to include characters from other gta type or crime open world games like the mafia games, Scarface, The Godfather games, watch dogs, saints row, driver, true crime, or other gta type competitor games.
This is the antagonist episode I've been waiting for since the season started man, let's go. This man next to Dimitri are in my opinion the best GTA villains of the franchise. I'm super excited to watch this one through
Tenpenny is the best antagonist in the GTA series for me and I love his villainy. The only thing I hate about him is I playing CJ did not get to shoot him down to death
Tenpenny was the most evil corrupted cop and terrible human being in GTA. Another reason he was found not guilty because CJ was killing anyone that had dirt on Tenpenny and destroying evidence. Samuel L. Jackson did a great job playing Tenpenny.
Sweet didn’t want CJ to get too much heat for doing that since Tenpenny is still a cop. While Dimitri is just another thug, which meant they won’t really care that much compared to Tenpenny.
Tenpenny: we can sh!t on you from such a high. You'll think God himself has shit on you. *Morgan Freeman enters room* No I shall send my warrior Carl Johnson. Cj: ah sh!t here we go again
Tenpenny is the definition of the phrase by Petyr Baelish “Chaos is a ladder”. Tenpenny caused untold suffering and death to save his own skin and claw for power, without caring for others. At least Baelish appeared to genuinely love Sansa in his own way. Tenpenny is nothing short of evil. His own protection by the law allows him to exercise his authority over everything and sometimes, if not all the time, he crosses the law and causes suffering to those because he enjoys it. While Sonny was a manipulative piece of garbage who had a business driven mind and set up his best friend, and Catalina who was totally unhinged and psychotic, ironically sparked by Tenpenny in a way, they weren’t as bad as Tenpenny. Catalina demonstrated certain affection for others and was probably attached to Cesar in a way, just become corrupted by power. And what sets Sonny apart from Tenpenny is his charisma and how he doesn’t step over many innocent people just to get what he wants, along with some of Tenpenny’s crimes.
One of my favorite antagonist of all the video games I've ever played. I don't think there's a character that I love to hate more than this one. Samuel L Jackson was such a perfect cast too, I'm happy that they don't rely on well known actors as much as they used to but in cases like this it was just perfect
I'm pretty sure they used Hollywood actors at the time because the GTA games back then were more cinematic and R* wanted to up the sales since the early 2000s was the prime era for GTA games
In my GTA canon, Former Officer Tenpenny is the frazzled old dude kicking the empty liquor bottle at the start of the first Franklin mission, before we see Franklin and Lamar.
I think what makes him the best if not the best antagonist is he was never an ally he was an asshole from the beginning and got worse the other antagonist were friends before
Considering there exists plenty ot mods for the original san andreas version it must be alot easier to "film" and set up scenes etc. compared to the definitive edition. (If we exclude already existing cutscenes)
most people don't know this, but there's a lot of lore in the promotional Flash websites for each GTA, I recreated all of them in my project Classic GTA Sites so anyone can check them out after Flash died in 2020. There's a lot of interesting things, especially in the Vice City and San Andreas websites since they are made to resemble police reports.
Tenpenny was always scary to me, becuase he really was one step away from outplaying an entire fucking state. He capitalized on the introduction of Crack, by having groups that were ok dealing working under Smoke and Ryder. He would give them the freedom, as CRASH's main officer, to eliminate those who didnt sell crack, giving him an essential monopoly over all crack being sold. If they all turn on him? He likely has enough evidence to put all of them away for a long time. It'll be a massive bust for him as well. The only flaw to his plan was in two things. To a lesser extent, Sweet's refusal to allow Crack in the grove And the obvious one, CJ. He was even able to capitalize on CJ as well, until it blows up in his face. I believe that if he hadn't let his arrogance take over and shot CJ while he still could, then he could have made it out of San Andreas with the bag.
I ain’t gonna say much, but crash was truly an experimental unit in other ways than what was perceived in the media. Now you see similar tactics in other cities in SoCal with direct control to continue certain cities as horrible.
It stands for Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, a specialized task force division of the LAPD created to combat gang violence in Southern California from 1979-2000. They were a real police unit which GTA: San Andreas based Tenpenny’s unit off of for the game since they did exist in 1992 when the game is set. CRASH’s unofficial motto was “intimidate those who intimidate others”, a phrase you’ll probably recognize since Tenpenny himself says it to CJ during the game. It’s known that Los Santos is based on Los Angeles (the LSPD being the LAPD of course). The real CRASH unit was led by a man named Rafael Perez, who was an incredibly corrupt police officer who got CRASH involved with gang activity and got involved in all kinds of bad shit. Frank Tenpenny is based off of Rafael Perez.
you did a great job again on this episode and tenpenny is a great deadly rival but big smoke also did a good job because there are enough foreshadowing he is evil he had more than ryder with foreshadowing
TH-cam Recommended I thought this video was already made but I realized that I got this mixed up with another video TH-cam Recommended years ago by Real Pixels.
a 20 year old game that still being talked about, why is no one adapting the game into a series, having 4 seasons, each season where carl is currently residing s1 for ls, s2 for countryside ls, s3 sf, and s4 lv including his return on ls, number of episodes will correspond to the number of missions and bottle episodes for side missions and will be named from mission description.
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Special thanks to EggBlunt, Ryder, Oracle Mirai, Kamikatsu_ and ArthurMorgan's Catto for help reviewing this episode's script for lore mistakes.
FYI during the initial loading screen when Tenpenny comes up you can see the bottom half of the eagle, globe, and anchor USMC tattoo. Which I'd say it was safe to assume that he's also a Vietnam vet.
I always liked Frank as a bad guy, Samuel L Jackson did a good job bringing the character to life.
He did bring him to life, in Lakeview Terrace...kinda lol
Jackson knows how to play villains and make them come alive
I'm fully convinced Samuel L Jackson will do any role as long as he gets to say mothafucka at least once. I don't remember if tenpenny ever says it but I wouldn't doubt it
@@IamMichael365 he really did lol 😂
When is Sam Jackson not awesome.
Tenpenny is probably the best antagonist in GTA. He's not cartoonish or parody, he's just a cop gone bad. To be a black police officer since at least the 80s, you get the idea that it ate away at him.
What about Dimitri Rascalov
@@lakraswayat I love Dimitri as a villain , but the man keeps betraying people for no reason. He's cartoonish , like the riddler.
@@mayac69 he's a psychopath and betrays people not only for his gain but also for his sadistic pleasure i dont think that's cartoonish
Sonny Forelli was also a great antagonist.
Definitely best antagonist in the series, Dan Houser writes his characters like no other and they get the best vocie actors to breath life into them, Samuel Jackson played the role extremely well. Only one that holds a candle to him is Dutch in RDR, a genuine guy that set out to right wrongs in society and eventually ended up turning himself. Honestly, all of this game's characters have so much life and realness to them, there hasn't been a GTA game like San Andreas before or since and there probably never will be.
About the origins of Tenpenny's corruption, in the last mission after Tenpenny orders CJ to pack Big Smoke's money and to escape the city, CJ tells Tenpenny that he lost it and that he's gone, which suggests that he actually used to be a legitimate officer before CJ's departure for Liberty City
i wish we got a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas stories prequal game the map is just set in one location Los Santos and surrounding countryside. An the story set during the golden years of grove street and what led too the events in the original game. How offcer tenpenny slowly went from a respectable cop to what he is in the first game.
@@silentecho92able a game playing as a Balla during the leadup and aftermath of the Green Saber incident? I'd be down for it
@@QuantemDeconstructor shoot they did it for GTA 3 and Vice City. I’m done for it as well
This new GTA game may be a San Andreas Stories for us, with the ending connecting the 3D era GTA games to the HD era GTA games. I know their not canon but it would be cool. The first half be a prequel to GTA San Andreas 3D era games. With the final half connecting to the HD era games like GTA V.
@@silentecho92able i like the idea, i always thought if this were made would you be playing as Carl or perhaps Brian so we can see how he died
This guy is the best GTA villain hands down, his personality, motives, real world influences, and him not acting too cartoonish like the GTA 5 villains really puts him at the top
Gta 5 have the most realistic villans in the series.
@@Pelican07.23 hahahhaahhaha no
@@WoddCar so you're telling me we don't have wacky billionaires who think everything could be bought with money ,and that working for them is a great honor in their eyes.
@@Pelican07.23 I’m not saying that, I’m saying that the gta 5 villains are kinda cartoony in their behavior
@elenadominguez4517 So, there aren't evil corrupt cops? Tennpenny was literally based off an actual corrupt police officer 😂
He’s an amazing villain. With how his character manipulates people into doing his dirty work and while always present, feels like he’s untouchable . Also the poetic justice in him dying to his own hubris is just chef’s kiss. Bringing Hernandez into the fold ended up blowing up in his face.
I wonder how many people know the “crash division” was based on actual police officers in LA. Raphael Perez is the real officer tenpenny
Big facts bro
CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) was a real entity that Raphael Perez was part of
Raphael Perez also inspired the character of Alonzo Harris in Training Day
I would love to see Ken Rosenberg, Kent Paul and all of the important side characters biographies
Yeah and Ceasar Vialpando
Season 3.
Also Vito Scaletta and maybe a gta biographies expansion to include characters from other gta type or crime open world games like the mafia games, Scarface, The Godfather games, watch dogs, saints row, driver, true crime, or other gta type competitor games.
I wonder what happened to them after gta sa
This is the antagonist episode I've been waiting for since the season started man, let's go. This man next to Dimitri are in my opinion the best GTA villains of the franchise. I'm super excited to watch this one through
Tenpenny is the best antagonist in the GTA series for me and I love his villainy. The only thing I hate about him is I playing CJ did not get to shoot him down to death
"It's cool, don't need to put a bullet in him. He killed himself in a traffic accident." ~sweet
If anything that might have incriminated CJ. Sweet really must have had that in mind when stopping him.
@@crimsondynamo615 That's exactly what I thought. Sweet was actually helpful to CJ, stopping him from making a big mistake.
Tenpenny was really the REAL antagonist of San Andreas!
No shit
Tenpenny: Don’t bullshit me, Carl!
Pulaski: Yeah, don’t bullshit him, Carl!
Tenpenny was the most evil corrupted cop and terrible human being in GTA. Another reason he was found not guilty because CJ was killing anyone that had dirt on Tenpenny and destroying evidence. Samuel L. Jackson did a great job playing Tenpenny.
I think Dimirti is worse
@@Rápido-n2c both of them are worst
Tenpenny uses his badge and get others to do his dirty work. Dimirti back stabbed anyone when he gets the chance.
@X_Milky Another difference is that CJ didn't have to put bullet on Tenpenny while Nicko did to Dimitri
Sweet didn’t want CJ to get too much heat for doing that since Tenpenny is still a cop. While Dimitri is just another thug, which meant they won’t really care that much compared to Tenpenny.
@@ntrainr160 Sweet underestimated Tenpenny, underestimated CJ and CJ's connections
Tenpenny: we can sh!t on you from such a high. You'll think God himself has shit on you.
*Morgan Freeman enters room*
No I shall send my warrior Carl Johnson.
Cj: ah sh!t here we go again
Tenpenny is the definition of the phrase by Petyr Baelish “Chaos is a ladder”. Tenpenny caused untold suffering and death to save his own skin and claw for power, without caring for others. At least Baelish appeared to genuinely love Sansa in his own way. Tenpenny is nothing short of evil. His own protection by the law allows him to exercise his authority over everything and sometimes, if not all the time, he crosses the law and causes suffering to those because he enjoys it. While Sonny was a manipulative piece of garbage who had a business driven mind and set up his best friend, and Catalina who was totally unhinged and psychotic, ironically sparked by Tenpenny in a way, they weren’t as bad as Tenpenny. Catalina demonstrated certain affection for others and was probably attached to Cesar in a way, just become corrupted by power. And what sets Sonny apart from Tenpenny is his charisma and how he doesn’t step over many innocent people just to get what he wants, along with some of Tenpenny’s crimes.
Tenpenny and Rascalov are the best antagonists in gta
This is a series you'd find on Netflix with how well this is presented! Can't wait for other character biographies.
One of my favorite antagonist of all the video games I've ever played. I don't think there's a character that I love to hate more than this one. Samuel L Jackson was such a perfect cast too, I'm happy that they don't rely on well known actors as much as they used to but in cases like this it was just perfect
I'm pretty sure they used Hollywood actors at the time because the GTA games back then were more cinematic and R* wanted to up the sales since the early 2000s was the prime era for GTA games
Tenpenny is my favorite GTA antagonist along with Dimitri
Frank Tenpenny will always be Samuel L. Jackson's best role.
98% of his roles are his best role tbh
Denzel Washington in training day movie
I’d love an episode on Phil Cassidy, as I believe he appears in the most games (4)?
Anyway, love the vids and I hope you love making them.
In my GTA canon, Former Officer Tenpenny is the frazzled old dude kicking the empty liquor bottle at the start of the first Franklin mission, before we see Franklin and Lamar.
Yeah. Not really. I rather that he stayed dead. Just to show an example to all LSPD officers in what happens when you abuse their authority.
The one where they steal the bike?
@@CyrilioWasTaken No, the one that starts the game.
Mike leaves the psych's office and sees old dude chasing an empty bottle.
@@johnhansen4794 oh yeah, I remember him now
Greatest antagonist in the series . Samuel L Jackson was made for this role.
I think what makes him the best if not the best antagonist is he was never an ally he was an asshole from the beginning and got worse the other antagonist were friends before
I like how Tenpenny dosent try to be a good guy, unlike how Dimtri from gta 4 acts like a good guy, but isn't at all
Tenpenny made history in Los Santos.
I’ve been looking forward to this episode for some time 😄😄😄
I like how you don’t use definitive edition for the footage 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Considering there exists plenty ot mods for the original san andreas version it must be alot easier to "film" and set up scenes etc. compared to the definitive edition. (If we exclude already existing cutscenes)
The Proffessional does and its highly irritating
Good job bro........your videos really make my day .....thanks a lot......keep up the good work
This cop and Denzel in training day are 1 and 2 in bad cops
most people don't know this, but there's a lot of lore in the promotional Flash websites for each GTA, I recreated all of them in my project Classic GTA Sites so anyone can check them out after Flash died in 2020. There's a lot of interesting things, especially in the Vice City and San Andreas websites since they are made to resemble police reports.
Where can I find these?
0:16 government probably: i'll pretend i didn't see that. (proceeds to sue)
The best written villain in the GTA 3D universe.
34:35 I always thought it was Smoke he threatened.
He did threatened him
You work fast nicca🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your top-tier production is as refreshing as a bag being lifted from my head just moments before I am about to suffocate.
CRASH theme music is terribly necessary for this episode
Cant imagine tenpenny being played by anyone else , samuel l jackson did an amazing job
Tenpenny was always scary to me, becuase he really was one step away from outplaying an entire fucking state. He capitalized on the introduction of Crack, by having groups that were ok dealing working under Smoke and Ryder. He would give them the freedom, as CRASH's main officer, to eliminate those who didnt sell crack, giving him an essential monopoly over all crack being sold. If they all turn on him? He likely has enough evidence to put all of them away for a long time. It'll be a massive bust for him as well. The only flaw to his plan was in two things.
To a lesser extent, Sweet's refusal to allow Crack in the grove
And the obvious one, CJ.
He was even able to capitalize on CJ as well, until it blows up in his face. I believe that if he hadn't let his arrogance take over and shot CJ while he still could, then he could have made it out of San Andreas with the bag.
Gonna watch this whole thing.
Frank tenpenny toying with Franklin Clinton imagine that
Tempenny would be killed in ending C
Bruuuu yo on Bloods this is why I love your channel brotha always on time never a disappointment 💯💯💯
If you want to get an idea what his upbringing was like look at Rafael Perez’s background 📄
Smart move smart move
Interesting thanks bro
Although not outright confirmed yet, Frank Tenpenny might've also killed his own wife, too.
Oh I’ve been waiting . Do one of my icon , Maria
I ain’t gonna say much, but crash was truly an experimental unit in other ways than what was perceived in the media. Now you see similar tactics in other cities in SoCal with direct control to continue certain cities as horrible.
What is the crash division anyway?
It stands for Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, a specialized task force division of the LAPD created to combat gang violence in Southern California from 1979-2000. They were a real police unit which GTA: San Andreas based Tenpenny’s unit off of for the game since they did exist in 1992 when the game is set. CRASH’s unofficial motto was “intimidate those who intimidate others”, a phrase you’ll probably recognize since Tenpenny himself says it to CJ during the game.
It’s known that Los Santos is based on Los Angeles (the LSPD being the LAPD of course). The real CRASH unit was led by a man named Rafael Perez, who was an incredibly corrupt police officer who got CRASH involved with gang activity and got involved in all kinds of bad shit. Frank Tenpenny is based off of Rafael Perez.
@@CompositeCreativity thank you that helps a lot
you did a great job again on this episode and tenpenny is a great deadly rival but big smoke also did a good job because there are enough foreshadowing he is evil he had more than ryder with foreshadowing
Great great!!!! Keep up the great work!!!
Samuel L Jackson knocked it out of the park with this amazing role
Shouldn't the thumbnail be blue?? 💙
Idk whomst you might be autobiographing up next bideo but I recommend either officer(s) Polaski or Hernandez...
You'll just have to wait and see...
Or join the discord :P
Do packy mccreery next
0:49 nice cut
15:40 WITNESS PROTECTION FOR WHAT!!!!
What’s the specific name of the version of the gta SA theme in the intro?
The version by Guiness Walker lol. It's on my patreon along with all other music from the show
@@TheCriminalHistorian it’s really good, can you send me the link please?
Given Tenpenny's placement, i'm going to predict that none other then Big Smoke himself is going to be the season finale!
EDIT: well fuck me, i guess!
yo. i still need to finish playing through GTA San Andreas.
TH-cam Recommended
I thought this video was already made but I realized that I got this mixed up with another video TH-cam Recommended years ago by Real Pixels.
Sam L Jackson was born to voice Tenpenny
Of all the characters in GTA ( who the most evil ) Tenpenny rank the top of the list.
i always thought Tenpenny could be CJ's father 😂
Tenpenny is Franklin's father actually. Shocking isn't it. That Franklin Clinton is a policeman's son.
@@angelolee3055 Tenpenny is Franklins dad? Proof?
@@Endgame707 his wet wipes are his source
@@drillingig2368 lol 😆
Love the series
Oh man!!! I loved hating this guy!! Came through once again! 🔥
17:19 look at truth in the mirror
Another legit banger, thx Guinness
a 20 year old game that still being talked about, why is no one adapting the game into a series, having 4 seasons, each season where carl is currently residing s1 for ls, s2 for countryside ls, s3 sf, and s4 lv including his return on ls, number of episodes will correspond to the number of missions and bottle episodes for side missions and will be named from mission description.
when i was younger i thought he was michael jordan
Tenpenny beat the case because of cj. All of the crash missions were basically tying up his loose ends.
Never committed grand theft auto 😎
I liked his character even though he is a prick and ironically I know somebody just like him in real life!
Keep it up great Job
14:15 you can see balla shooting the cops
Oh boy yeah
More GTA biography pls
GW don’t miss!
Little jacob vid?
Next season
Show Jackson best voice actor ever
Sweet neck long asf lmao
Hi Bill here did you upgrade to windows 11 yet walker
No Bill. And I'd appreciate it you stopped sending goons with tire irons to make your point.
@@TheCriminalHistorian sorry we didn't mean to send those guys over
What the hell happened here
I knew Frank was a balle gang member don't know why didn't see it before
opening car door with the gun....how american is that :D
This is drug money
Where my money walker it my money
the balla said we putin said we so this means putin is a balla
FIB bro, not FBI. GTA universe
3D era bro, do your research ;)
@@TheCriminalHistorian just checked bro, my bad
officer 10 penny
As bad as Tenpenny was, I prefer him than Micah
First! More GTA biographies!
He a cop tho
i want some of that weed!
I've never understood why weed is illegal. It's stupid.
Not where I'm from it ain't ;)
Samuel l jackson is a legand
Clutchhh
Damnnnnn
I'm the 800th like and 100th comment
24:25 to get drunk and watch anime