In fact, he is Mr. GTA, absolutely everything you and your mum might associate with the series embodied in one gloriously nasty psychopath. GTA 5’s Trevor Philips is well understood to represent that sort of player. His infamous introduction is as freeing as it is shocking: he enters the story of GTA 5 at perhaps his most vile. Some readings of GTA 5 call him the true villain of the piece: and it’s not hard to see why. Trevor’s story is GTA’s original love story: because in every sense, he does what he does for the love of the game.