Roman Bellic: Difference between revisions

|nationality=Serbia

|home=[[Albany Ave]], [[Middle Park East]] <br />[[Joliet Ave]], [[South Bohan]]  [[Liberty City in GTA IV Era|Liberty City]]

|affiliations=[[Niko Bellic]]<br />[[Vladimir Glebov]] <small> (2008) </small><br />[[Jermaine Andrews]]<br />[[Little Jacob]]<br />[[Brucie Kibbutz]]<br />[[Mohammad]]

|vehicles=Black [[Roman's Taxi]]<br /> Blue [[Cavalcade]]<br /> Black [[Cognoscenti]]<br />Black [[Esperanto]]

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Roman Bellic was born in [[wp:Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]. He and his cousin Niko grew up together since their fathers were brothers and they lived next to each other. Niko claims that mostly Roman’s mother raised both of them when the war came, she used all of the money she had saved to send Roman to the [[United States of America]]. She also wanted to send Niko to the U.S., but he stayed to fight in the war. In a conversation with [[Kate McReary]], Niko says that he found Roman's mother raped and murdered, although Niko told Roman that she died in a house fire. In conversations between Niko and Roman and other characters, it is revealed that both Niko's and Roman's fathers were alcoholic, wife-beating bullies.

When Niko [[The Cousins Bellic|arrives]] in Liberty City, he soon [[It's Your Call|finds out]] that Roman is heavily in debt with various figures in the city, including the [[Russian Mafia|Russian]] and [[Albanians|Albanian]] Mafias, due to his gambling addiction and his attempts to support his [[Roman's Taxi Depot|taxi depot]]. Roman employs his girlfriend Mallorie at his taxi depot; although he is unaware, she is having an affair with [[Vladimir Glebov]]. Niko [[Bleed Out|kills]] [[Dardan Petrela]] and beats up [[Kalem Vulaj]] and [[Bledar Morina]], three Albanians, when they attempt to collect their money. When Roman finds out about Mallorie's affair with Vlad, he is upset, and Niko confronts and [[Uncle Vlad|kills]] Vlad for him. Vlad's death causes Roman to become paranoid because he fears retaliation from Faustin. His fears proved to be well founded. He and Niko are later [[Crime and Punishment|kidnapped]] on orders from [[Mikhail Faustin]]. Faustin shoots Roman in the stomach because he was screaming, but Roman survives. This leads to Niko doing a couple jobs for Faustin such as [[No Love Lost|killing]] [[The Lost Brotherhood|Lost]] member [[Jason Michaels]]. After Niko [[The Master and the Molotov|kills]] Faustin for [[Dimitri Rascalov]], Rascalov and [[Ray Bulgarin]] [[Russian Revolution|betray]] Niko, [[Roman's Sorrow|burning down]] his apartment in Hove Beach and Roman's taxi depot. Roman moves into Mallorie's apartment in [[Bohan]], where he also opens another taxi depot with the insurance money he receives from the fire in the first one.

He goes to [[Maisonette 9]] with Brucie Kibbutz regularly and is seen in [[The Ballad of Gay Tony]], and briefly converses with Luis Lopez.

Towards the end of the storyline in GTA IV, Niko has to decide if he will [[A Dish Served Cold|kill Dimitri]] in revenge for his betrayal or [[If the Price is Right|work with him again]] in a [[heroin]] deal for [[Jimmy Pegorino]]. Roman [[One Last Thing|urges Niko to forget revenge and work with Dimitri]], considering the large amount of money he could receive for his work. He tells Niko he would be able to afford a great honeymoon with Mallorie and that maybe him and Niko could take a private jet to [[Vice City in GTA IV Era|Vice City]].

If Niko decides to get [[Endings in GTA IV#Revenge|revenge on Dimitri]], Jimmy Pegorino will be furious about his business being ruined. During Roman's and Mallorie's wedding, Pegorino will attempt a drive-by shooting, killing [[Kate McReary]], Niko's love interest. After Niko kills Pegorino, Roman will tell him that Mallorie is pregnant, and that if it's a girl, her name will be Kate. (''Since Roman is unaware of the gender already being male as of yet'')

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* Oddly enough, if the player chooses the Revenge ending, Roman's voicemail will not change from when he was single and he will still go to the strip club with you if you ask him, however he won't ask you to go there with him once he is married unless it is nighttime.

*If the player chooses the Revenge ending and finishes the game and takes Roman on a activity, he may reference to Kate's death and tells Niko to stop mourning and enjoy life.