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'''Carl | '''Carl "CJ" Johnson''' is the [[protagonist]] in [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]. | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Carl Johnson, born 1967 in Los Santos, San Andreas | Carl "CJ" Johnson, born 1967 in [[Los Santos]], [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]], is one of the leading members of the [[Grove Street Families]], along with his brother, [[Sean Johnson|Sean "Sweet" Johnson]]. Sweet suggested that CJ was born in the [[Johnson House]], a two floor home at a [[Grove Street]] cul-de-sac in [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos]]. After the death of his younger brother, [[Brian Johnson|Brian]], Carl escaped the pressures of gang life and moved to [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] in 1987, where he had the opportunity of working with [[Boss|Don]] [[Salvatore Leone]]'s son, [[Joey Leone]] in the car theft business, and is once seen mugging a passer-by on the streets. GTA San Andreas begins with CJ's return to Los Santos upon the death of his [[Beverly Johnson|mother]]. | ||
==GTA San Andreas== | ==GTA San Andreas== | ||
In [[1992]], CJ receives a phone call from Sweet on the death of his mother and returns to Los Santos, only to be confronted by members of [[Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums|C.R.A.S.H.]], consisting of officers [[Frank Tenpenny]], [[Eddie Pulaski]] and [[Jimmy Hernandez]]. Throughout the storyline, CJ is forced to work for C.R.A.S.H., after learning that he has been framed by the organization for the murder of an Internal Affairs police officer called [[Ralph Pendelbury]], whom C.R.A.S.H. members had also silenced to prevent him from exposing the team's activities. CJ's appearance at the beginning of the game is similar to Chris Tuckers character in the film "Money Talks". | |||
In [[1992]], CJ receives a phone call from Sweet on the death of his mother and returns to Los Santos, only to be confronted by members of [[C.R.A.S.H.]] | |||
Early in the game, CJ aids all the senior members in reviving the [[Grove Street Families]], by killing crack dealers supplying other Grove Street members with drugs, acquiring firearms and regaining gang territory. Carl also does some work for [[C.R.A.S.H.]] to keep Tenpenny off his back. Due to Carl's work, Grove Street is nearly brought back to it's feet. However, all the effort comes to an end when [[Varrios Los Aztecas]] leader and close friend, [[Cesar Vialpando]] calls CJ and they find out that two of the senior Grove Street members, [[Ryder]] and [[Big Smoke]], have betrayed the gang to change side with the [[Ballas]] and C.R.A.S.H., while Sweet is ambushed and wounded by rival Ballas gang members in a [[The Green Sabre|shootout]] under the [[Mulholland Intersection]]. This leads to Sweet being arrested by the [[Los Santos Police Department|police]]. CJ manages to save Sweet from dying but is also arrested once the police raid the scene. CJ and Sweet's arrests also leads to the downfall of the Grove Street Families as well as Cesar's [[Varrios Los Aztecas]] which results in total domination of Los Santos by the Ballas and [[Los Santos Vagos]]. | |||
Early in the game, CJ | |||
C.R.A.S.H. releases CJ from being arrested in order to perform another job for them. They leave CJ in the [[Whetstone|badlands]] for [[Badlands|eliminating a witness against them]]. CJ, later on, starts committing a series of robberies along with [[Catalina]], Cesar Vialpando's cousin, the heist targets include a [[Against All Odds|betting shop]], a [[Local Liquor Store|liquor store]], a [[Tanker Commander|gas station]] and a [[Small Town Bank|small town bank]]. CJ meets [[San Fierro Triads|Triad]] leader [[Wu Zi Mu|Wu Zi Mu "Woozie"]] during a [[Wu Zi Mu (mission)|street race]] and aging hippie [[The Truth]] through Tenpenny. Catalina ditches CJ for her next boyfriend, [[Claude]], and in another [[Farewell, My Love...|street race]] CJ beats them, gaining the deed to Claude's run down [[Doherty Garage|garage]] in [[Doherty]], [[San Fierro]]. Carl prepares to leave the Badlands after [[Are You Going to San Fierro?|helping]] The Truth burn down his cannabis crops because of the police discovering the farm. | |||
Once CJ arrives in San Fierro with Cesar, The Truth and Kendl, he discovers that the garage he won from Claude is completely useless. Due to Kendl and The Truth's suggestions, he [[Wear Flowers in Your Hair|hires]] [[Dwaine]], [[Jethro]] and [[Zero]] to work in the garage. CJ re-encounters Woozie in San Fierro and he explains, after a little recon, who the drug dealing organization, the [[Loco Syndicate]] are. Woozie hires CJ to help him sort things out with the Triads' enemies, the [[Da Nang Boys]]. CJ infiltrates the Syndicate through one of the members, [[Jizzy B]] and assists [[T-Bone Mendez]] and [[Mike Toreno]] run their drugs in an attempt to learn about a big deal between them and the Ballas. After gaining trust from the group, Carl [[Ice Cold Killa|kills Jizzy]], then Mendez and apparently Toreno as well as former friend [[Ryder]] in a big [[Pier 69 (mission)|shootout]] down at [[Pier 69]]. CJ, later, [[Yay-Ka Boom Boom|blows up]] Big Smoke's huge crack factory in [[Doherty]]. CJ succeeds in making his garage into a successful business and illegal car shop with the help of Cesar and his friends. After sorting everything out in San Fierro, CJ receives an anonymous phone call from a man using a voice distortion, who offers a way to release Sweet from jail, CJ then travels to the desert, to a ranch in the middle of [[Tierra Robada]]. | |||
Once CJ arrives in San Fierro with Cesar, The Truth and Kendl, he discovers the garage he won from Claude is completely useless. Due to Kendl and The Truth's suggestions, | |||
Upon arriving at the ranch in Tierra Robada, CJ discovers it's Mike Toreno who called him there, and he believes Toreno will kill him, so CJ doesn't let Toreno explain himself, Toreno snaps and in a fit of rage yells out he isn't a drug dealer, but a government agent. Toreno has CJ to [[Verdant Meadows (mission)|buy the abandoned airstrip]], [[Verdant Meadows]], near [[Las Venturas]] and orders him to perform near impossible tasks, such as [[Interdiction|shooting down]] [[FBI]] helicopters from a plateau to protect a drop off chopper, [[N.O.E.|dropping goods]] from an airplane to Toreno's helpers in [[Angel Pine]] while flying below the radar level and riding a motorbike into an [[Andromada|airplane]] and [[Stowaway|setting off a bomb inside]] it after jumping off the plane in a [[Parachute|parachute]]. After this, Toreno leaves CJ without fulfilling his promise of having Sweet released. An angered CJ then decides to sabotage Toreno by pulling jobs for The Truth, like [[Black Project|robbing]] a [[Jetpack|jetpack]] from [[Area 69]] and stealing some [[Green Goo|green goo]] from a government train. After finishing the jobs for The Truth, Wu Zi Mu calls CJ to his casino, [[The Four Dragons Casino]] in Las Venturas. | |||
Upon arriving at the ranch in Tierra Robada, | |||
Upon arriving in Las Venturas, CJ gets a share of [[Woozie]]'s new casino, [[The Four Dragons Casino]], and helps Woozie deal with the Mafia Families trying to sabotage the casino. He starts planning a heist on the Mafia-run [[Caligula's Palace]] along with Woozie. To do this, CJ starts working for Salvatore Leone, even taking a [[Saint Mark's Bistro|short trip]] to [[Liberty City in GTA III era|Liberty City]], for his trust and easy access to the casino. While planning the heist, CJ [[Madd Dogg (mission)|saves the life]] of rapper [[Madd Dogg]], partly because he had sabotaged the rapper's career to launch [[OG Loc|OG Loc's]]. After saving his life, CJ becomes Madd Dogg's new manager. In the process, CJ helps [[Ken Rosenberg]], [[Kent Paul]] and [[Maccer]] fake their deaths so they can stop working for Salvatore Leone. Finally, CJ [[Misappropriation|retrieves a dossier]] for Frank Tenpenny, witnesses the murder of C.R.A.S.H. agent Jimmy Hernandez and [[High Noon|kills another]] C.R.A.S.H. agent, [[Eddie Pulaski]]. After CJ and the Triads pull the [[Breaking the Bank at Caligula's|heist]], Carl flies back to Los Santos and helps Madd Dogg [[A Home in the Hills|take back]] his [[Madd Dogg's Crib|mansion]] from [[Big Poppa]] and Los Santos Vagos. | |||
Upon arriving in Las Venturas, | |||
When CJ gets back to Los Santos, he helps Madd Dogg [[Cut Throat Business|get back his rhyme book]] from OG Loc and also helps him start his career again. While CJ is listening to Madd Dogg rapping at the studio, Mike Toreno hacks into the house's P.A. system and tells CJ about a final job. Toreno says the job is very easy and reveals that the task is to sneak into a [[Easter Basin Naval Station|military ship]], [[Vertical Bird|steal]] a [[Hydra]] assault plane, and use it to blow up four spy ships. After pulling the job, Mike leaves Carl to take care of the plane. Later on, Toreno returns to CJ and asks him for a "final job", CJ then snaps and puts a gun against Toreno's head. Toreno calmly tells CJ that he's "embarrassing himself" and mentions a "surprise". The phone rings and CJ answers, it's Sweet and he has been released from prison and the final job was actually to [[Home Coming|pick him up]]. | |||
When CJ gets back to Los Santos, he helps Madd Dogg [[Cut Throat Business|get back his rhyme book]] from OG Loc and also helps him start his career again. | |||
However, with Sweet returning to the neighborhood, CJ once again, though reluctantly, is forced by Sweet to rebuild the Grove Street Families' dominance in the city, and witnesses a city wide [[Riot (GTA SA)|riot]] sparked after Frank Tenpenny was acquitted of corruption charges in court. To [[End of the Line|wrap up]] all loose ends in his life, CJ would finally confront and kill Big Smoke, before pursuing Tenpenny, who would die in a car crash in front of the Johnson House. In front of the dead and broken man, CJ | However, with Sweet returning to the neighborhood, CJ once again, though reluctantly, is forced by Sweet to rebuild the Grove Street Families' dominance in the city, and witnesses a city wide [[Riot (GTA SA)|riot]] sparked after Frank Tenpenny was acquitted of corruption charges in court. To [[End of the Line|wrap up]] all loose ends in his life, CJ would finally confront and kill Big Smoke, before pursuing Tenpenny, who would die in a car crash in front of the [[Johnson House]]. In front of the dead and broken man, CJ prepares to shoot Tenpenny's corpse with his gun, but Sweet stops him. CJ says that he "just wants to make sure it's over", but Sweet decides that it is safer to not leave evidence. He then leaves Tenpenny with the words "See you around... officer." | ||
After the riot breaks up, Madd Dogg visits the Johnson house with an announcement that he's received a golden record for his new album. Everyone inside then decides to keep a low profile with everything that they've accomplished. CJ himself then gets up and leaves the house. | After the riot breaks up, Madd Dogg visits the Johnson house with an announcement that he's received a golden record for his new album. Everyone inside then decides to keep a low profile with everything that they've accomplished. CJ himself then gets up and leaves the house only to get a prank call from Catalina who is heard having sex with her boyfriend, Claude. | ||
==Murders commited by Carl Johnson== | ==Murders commited by Carl Johnson== | ||
*'''[[Freddy (GTA SA)|Freddy]]''': | *'''[[Freddy (GTA SA)|Freddy]]''': Killed by CJ and OG Loc after a bike chase for stealing Loc's "rhymes". | ||
*'''[[Alan Crawford]]''': | *'''[[Alan Crawford]]''': Killed in order to sabotage Madd Dogg's career. | ||
*'''[[Little Weasel]]''': CJ | *'''[[Little Weasel]]''': CJ kills him while taking over [[Glen Park]] when he tries to escape. | ||
*'''[[Kane]]''': | *'''[[Kane]]''': Ballas member, CJ and Sweet gun him down during Little Weasel's funeral. | ||
*'''[[Jizzy B.]]''': | *'''[[Jizzy B.]]''': CJ kills him in order to acquire his phone and find out where the Loco Syndicate are having a meeting. | ||
*'''[[T-Bone Mendez]]''': | *'''[[T-Bone Mendez]]''': CJ and Cesar shoot him down at [[Pier 69]] in order to destroy the Loco Syndicate. | ||
*'''[[ | *'''[[Ryder]]''': CJ kills him while attempting to escape in a boat for betraying the Grove Street Families. | ||
*'''[[The Snakehead]]''': | *'''[[The Snakehead]]''': Killed on orders from [[Woozie]] to weaken the Da Nang Boys. | ||
*'''[[Benny]]''': | *'''[[Benny]]''': Killed by CJ in order to get access to [[Millie Perkins' Home]]. | ||
*'''[[Eddie Pulaski]]''': | *'''[[Eddie Pulaski]]''': CJ shoots him dead and stomps on his face after putting him through all the hard time. | ||
*'''[[Big Poppa]]''': | *'''[[Big Poppa]]''': CJ kills him in order to take back Madd Dogg's mansion. | ||
*'''[[ | *'''[[Big Smoke]]''': Killed by CJ for betraying the Grove Street Families. | ||
====Optional Murders==== | ====Optional Murders==== | ||
*[[Derek]] - | *[[Derek]] - The player can blow up his car or shoot him through the car glass. | ||
====Deleted Murders==== | ====Deleted Murders==== | ||
*[[Officer Carver]] - Would be killed for attempting to have [[Poncho]] arrested and make him talk. | *[[Officer Carver]] - Would be killed for attempting to have [[Poncho]] arrested and make him talk. | ||
*[[Marco Forelli]] - Was going to be the mobster who CJ kills in Saint Marks but due to deleted audio,his name is never mentioned in the final game. | *[[Marco Forelli]] - Was going to be the mobster who CJ kills in [[Saint Marks]] but due to deleted audio, his name is never mentioned in the final game. | ||
==Family Tree== | ==Family Tree== | ||
Carl Johnson is the son of [[Beverly Johnson]] (deceased). He | Carl Johnson is the son of [[Beverly Johnson]] (deceased). He is the second-oldest Johnson sibling. The oldest is his brother, [[Sean Johnson|Sean]] (Sweet). The youngest is his other brother, [[Brian Johnson|Brian]] (deceased), and the second-youngest is [[Kendl Johnson|Kendl]]. Nothing is known about their father, although in "the introduction" CJ mentions that he never met his father. CJ does not have any living direct relatives other than Sean and Kendl. | ||
==Personality== | ==Personality== | ||
CJ is markedly different from the previous playable characters in the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series. While Claude and [[Tommy Vercetti]] are both depicted as completely heartless and feeling no regret for all of the people that they kill, CJ is depicted as having a considerably less violent personality, occasionally giving his victims a chance to redeem themselves. An example is his failed attempt at convincing Eddie Pulaski to see that he was no more than Tenpenny's pawn. | CJ is markedly different from the previous playable characters in the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series. While Claude and [[Tommy Vercetti]] are both depicted as completely heartless and feeling no regret for all of the people that they kill, CJ is depicted as having a considerably less violent personality, occasionally giving his victims a chance to redeem themselves. An example is his failed attempt at convincing Eddie Pulaski to see that he was no more than Tenpenny's pawn. Furthermore, CJ displays genuine remorse for having to kill fellow Grove Street friends Ryder and Big Smoke, who he considered close friends. However, CJ still has no problem with killing members of other gangs, and willfully slaughters any that get in his way of reclaiming Grove Street Families turf or try to sabotage his businesses. | ||
==Voice== | ==Voice== | ||
CJ was voiced by [[Young Maylay|Chris Bellard]], | CJ was voiced by [[Young Maylay|Chris Bellard]], known as Young Maylay, even though he bears a striking resemblance to Dr. Dre. Rumors circulated the internet for a while that Dave Chappelle was supposed to voice CJ, but these were most likely just wishful thinking on the part of Chappelle's fans. Rap star 50 Cent says that he was asked by Rockstar Games to voice CJ, but turned the role down, stating that he would only voice himself in a video game (which eventually happened in 50 Cent: Bulletproof). | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*An [[Easter Egg]] in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] suggests that | *An [[Easter Egg]] in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] suggests that CJ possibly died or disappeared after [[1992]]. However a reference of his death is never directly made. Carl, is just a name included in the bunch of other names. Either way, this is not considered canon for the [[GTA III Era]]. | ||
*Carl is the most customizable character in a GTA game to date. | *Carl is the most customizable character in a GTA game to date. | ||
Revision as of 15:06, 22 June 2009
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| Appearances | [[Appearance::Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] |
| Full Name | Carl "CJ" Johnson |
| Gender | Gender::Male |
| Date of Birth | 1967 |
| Place of Birth | Ganton, Los Santos, San Andreas |
| Age Now | 57 |
| Nationality | American |
| Home | Johnson House |
| Family |
Beverly Johnson (mother) Sean Johnson (brother) Kendl Johnson (sister) Brian Johnson (brother) |
| Main Affiliations | C.R.A.S.H., Dwaine, Grove Street Families, Jethro, Leone Family, San Fierro Triads, The Truth, Varrios Los Aztecas and Zero |
| Businesses | Doherty Garage, Four Dragons Casino, Wang Cars and Zero RC |
| Voiced by | Young Maylay |
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Carl "CJ" Johnson is the protagonist in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Background
Carl "CJ" Johnson, born 1967 in Los Santos, San Andreas, is one of the leading members of the Grove Street Families, along with his brother, Sean "Sweet" Johnson. Sweet suggested that CJ was born in the Johnson House, a two floor home at a Grove Street cul-de-sac in Ganton, Los Santos. After the death of his younger brother, Brian, Carl escaped the pressures of gang life and moved to Liberty City in 1987, where he had the opportunity of working with Don Salvatore Leone's son, Joey Leone in the car theft business, and is once seen mugging a passer-by on the streets. GTA San Andreas begins with CJ's return to Los Santos upon the death of his mother.
GTA San Andreas
In 1992, CJ receives a phone call from Sweet on the death of his mother and returns to Los Santos, only to be confronted by members of C.R.A.S.H., consisting of officers Frank Tenpenny, Eddie Pulaski and Jimmy Hernandez. Throughout the storyline, CJ is forced to work for C.R.A.S.H., after learning that he has been framed by the organization for the murder of an Internal Affairs police officer called Ralph Pendelbury, whom C.R.A.S.H. members had also silenced to prevent him from exposing the team's activities. CJ's appearance at the beginning of the game is similar to Chris Tuckers character in the film "Money Talks".
Early in the game, CJ aids all the senior members in reviving the Grove Street Families, by killing crack dealers supplying other Grove Street members with drugs, acquiring firearms and regaining gang territory. Carl also does some work for C.R.A.S.H. to keep Tenpenny off his back. Due to Carl's work, Grove Street is nearly brought back to it's feet. However, all the effort comes to an end when Varrios Los Aztecas leader and close friend, Cesar Vialpando calls CJ and they find out that two of the senior Grove Street members, Ryder and Big Smoke, have betrayed the gang to change side with the Ballas and C.R.A.S.H., while Sweet is ambushed and wounded by rival Ballas gang members in a shootout under the Mulholland Intersection. This leads to Sweet being arrested by the police. CJ manages to save Sweet from dying but is also arrested once the police raid the scene. CJ and Sweet's arrests also leads to the downfall of the Grove Street Families as well as Cesar's Varrios Los Aztecas which results in total domination of Los Santos by the Ballas and Los Santos Vagos.
C.R.A.S.H. releases CJ from being arrested in order to perform another job for them. They leave CJ in the badlands for eliminating a witness against them. CJ, later on, starts committing a series of robberies along with Catalina, Cesar Vialpando's cousin, the heist targets include a betting shop, a liquor store, a gas station and a small town bank. CJ meets Triad leader Wu Zi Mu "Woozie" during a street race and aging hippie The Truth through Tenpenny. Catalina ditches CJ for her next boyfriend, Claude, and in another street race CJ beats them, gaining the deed to Claude's run down garage in Doherty, San Fierro. Carl prepares to leave the Badlands after helping The Truth burn down his cannabis crops because of the police discovering the farm.
Once CJ arrives in San Fierro with Cesar, The Truth and Kendl, he discovers that the garage he won from Claude is completely useless. Due to Kendl and The Truth's suggestions, he hires Dwaine, Jethro and Zero to work in the garage. CJ re-encounters Woozie in San Fierro and he explains, after a little recon, who the drug dealing organization, the Loco Syndicate are. Woozie hires CJ to help him sort things out with the Triads' enemies, the Da Nang Boys. CJ infiltrates the Syndicate through one of the members, Jizzy B and assists T-Bone Mendez and Mike Toreno run their drugs in an attempt to learn about a big deal between them and the Ballas. After gaining trust from the group, Carl kills Jizzy, then Mendez and apparently Toreno as well as former friend Ryder in a big shootout down at Pier 69. CJ, later, blows up Big Smoke's huge crack factory in Doherty. CJ succeeds in making his garage into a successful business and illegal car shop with the help of Cesar and his friends. After sorting everything out in San Fierro, CJ receives an anonymous phone call from a man using a voice distortion, who offers a way to release Sweet from jail, CJ then travels to the desert, to a ranch in the middle of Tierra Robada.
Upon arriving at the ranch in Tierra Robada, CJ discovers it's Mike Toreno who called him there, and he believes Toreno will kill him, so CJ doesn't let Toreno explain himself, Toreno snaps and in a fit of rage yells out he isn't a drug dealer, but a government agent. Toreno has CJ to buy the abandoned airstrip, Verdant Meadows, near Las Venturas and orders him to perform near impossible tasks, such as shooting down FBI helicopters from a plateau to protect a drop off chopper, dropping goods from an airplane to Toreno's helpers in Angel Pine while flying below the radar level and riding a motorbike into an airplane and setting off a bomb inside it after jumping off the plane in a parachute. After this, Toreno leaves CJ without fulfilling his promise of having Sweet released. An angered CJ then decides to sabotage Toreno by pulling jobs for The Truth, like robbing a jetpack from Area 69 and stealing some green goo from a government train. After finishing the jobs for The Truth, Wu Zi Mu calls CJ to his casino, The Four Dragons Casino in Las Venturas.
Upon arriving in Las Venturas, CJ gets a share of Woozie's new casino, The Four Dragons Casino, and helps Woozie deal with the Mafia Families trying to sabotage the casino. He starts planning a heist on the Mafia-run Caligula's Palace along with Woozie. To do this, CJ starts working for Salvatore Leone, even taking a short trip to Liberty City, for his trust and easy access to the casino. While planning the heist, CJ saves the life of rapper Madd Dogg, partly because he had sabotaged the rapper's career to launch OG Loc's. After saving his life, CJ becomes Madd Dogg's new manager. In the process, CJ helps Ken Rosenberg, Kent Paul and Maccer fake their deaths so they can stop working for Salvatore Leone. Finally, CJ retrieves a dossier for Frank Tenpenny, witnesses the murder of C.R.A.S.H. agent Jimmy Hernandez and kills another C.R.A.S.H. agent, Eddie Pulaski. After CJ and the Triads pull the heist, Carl flies back to Los Santos and helps Madd Dogg take back his mansion from Big Poppa and Los Santos Vagos.
When CJ gets back to Los Santos, he helps Madd Dogg get back his rhyme book from OG Loc and also helps him start his career again. While CJ is listening to Madd Dogg rapping at the studio, Mike Toreno hacks into the house's P.A. system and tells CJ about a final job. Toreno says the job is very easy and reveals that the task is to sneak into a military ship, steal a Hydra assault plane, and use it to blow up four spy ships. After pulling the job, Mike leaves Carl to take care of the plane. Later on, Toreno returns to CJ and asks him for a "final job", CJ then snaps and puts a gun against Toreno's head. Toreno calmly tells CJ that he's "embarrassing himself" and mentions a "surprise". The phone rings and CJ answers, it's Sweet and he has been released from prison and the final job was actually to pick him up.
However, with Sweet returning to the neighborhood, CJ once again, though reluctantly, is forced by Sweet to rebuild the Grove Street Families' dominance in the city, and witnesses a city wide riot sparked after Frank Tenpenny was acquitted of corruption charges in court. To wrap up all loose ends in his life, CJ would finally confront and kill Big Smoke, before pursuing Tenpenny, who would die in a car crash in front of the Johnson House. In front of the dead and broken man, CJ prepares to shoot Tenpenny's corpse with his gun, but Sweet stops him. CJ says that he "just wants to make sure it's over", but Sweet decides that it is safer to not leave evidence. He then leaves Tenpenny with the words "See you around... officer."
After the riot breaks up, Madd Dogg visits the Johnson house with an announcement that he's received a golden record for his new album. Everyone inside then decides to keep a low profile with everything that they've accomplished. CJ himself then gets up and leaves the house only to get a prank call from Catalina who is heard having sex with her boyfriend, Claude.
Murders commited by Carl Johnson
- Freddy: Killed by CJ and OG Loc after a bike chase for stealing Loc's "rhymes".
- Alan Crawford: Killed in order to sabotage Madd Dogg's career.
- Little Weasel: CJ kills him while taking over Glen Park when he tries to escape.
- Kane: Ballas member, CJ and Sweet gun him down during Little Weasel's funeral.
- Jizzy B.: CJ kills him in order to acquire his phone and find out where the Loco Syndicate are having a meeting.
- T-Bone Mendez: CJ and Cesar shoot him down at Pier 69 in order to destroy the Loco Syndicate.
- Ryder: CJ kills him while attempting to escape in a boat for betraying the Grove Street Families.
- The Snakehead: Killed on orders from Woozie to weaken the Da Nang Boys.
- Benny: Killed by CJ in order to get access to Millie Perkins' Home.
- Eddie Pulaski: CJ shoots him dead and stomps on his face after putting him through all the hard time.
- Big Poppa: CJ kills him in order to take back Madd Dogg's mansion.
- Big Smoke: Killed by CJ for betraying the Grove Street Families.
Optional Murders
- Derek - The player can blow up his car or shoot him through the car glass.
Deleted Murders
- Officer Carver - Would be killed for attempting to have Poncho arrested and make him talk.
- Marco Forelli - Was going to be the mobster who CJ kills in Saint Marks but due to deleted audio, his name is never mentioned in the final game.
Family Tree
Carl Johnson is the son of Beverly Johnson (deceased). He is the second-oldest Johnson sibling. The oldest is his brother, Sean (Sweet). The youngest is his other brother, Brian (deceased), and the second-youngest is Kendl. Nothing is known about their father, although in "the introduction" CJ mentions that he never met his father. CJ does not have any living direct relatives other than Sean and Kendl.
Personality
CJ is markedly different from the previous playable characters in the Grand Theft Auto series. While Claude and Tommy Vercetti are both depicted as completely heartless and feeling no regret for all of the people that they kill, CJ is depicted as having a considerably less violent personality, occasionally giving his victims a chance to redeem themselves. An example is his failed attempt at convincing Eddie Pulaski to see that he was no more than Tenpenny's pawn. Furthermore, CJ displays genuine remorse for having to kill fellow Grove Street friends Ryder and Big Smoke, who he considered close friends. However, CJ still has no problem with killing members of other gangs, and willfully slaughters any that get in his way of reclaiming Grove Street Families turf or try to sabotage his businesses.
Voice
CJ was voiced by Chris Bellard, known as Young Maylay, even though he bears a striking resemblance to Dr. Dre. Rumors circulated the internet for a while that Dave Chappelle was supposed to voice CJ, but these were most likely just wishful thinking on the part of Chappelle's fans. Rap star 50 Cent says that he was asked by Rockstar Games to voice CJ, but turned the role down, stating that he would only voice himself in a video game (which eventually happened in 50 Cent: Bulletproof).
Trivia
- An Easter Egg in Grand Theft Auto IV suggests that CJ possibly died or disappeared after 1992. However a reference of his death is never directly made. Carl, is just a name included in the bunch of other names. Either way, this is not considered canon for the GTA III Era.
- Carl is the most customizable character in a GTA game to date.