With Saints Row V right around the corner...wait...that was just a rumor?
Well, nevertheless, we here at Suggestive Gaming figured it would be a fun trip down
memory lane to take a look back at the storyline of the Saints Row series.
Note that we won’t be covering the mobile games, since their stories are generally unrelated,
certain non-canon DLCs, as well as the cancelled game: Money Shot, for obvious reasons.
Also, to save myself from a litany of comments: while the Saints Row series bears several
references and similarities to the Red Faction series, developers have confirmed on several
accounts that they are completely separate.
So sorry, but we won’t be touching those either, at least not right now.
We will however, cover Agents of Mayhem, the Saints Row spinoff game, at the end of this
video as a bonus, as voted on by you: the subscribers of the channel!
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With all of that said, this is what you need to know about Saints Row.
Our story begins in the year 2006 in the city of Stilwater, where we meet our protagonist,
caught in the middle of a gunfight with warring gangs: the Westside Rollerz, the Vice Kings,
and Los Carnales.
Right before one of the Kings shoots him, however, he is rescued by two members of another
gang, the 3rd Street Saints: Julius Little and Troy Bradshaw.
The protagonist meets Julius, who is the leader of the Saints, at their headquarters: a derelict
church in the city’s Saints Row district.
There, he is jumped in to the gang, but proves himself in combat, successfully becoming a
member of the Saints.
Julius reveals to the protagonist that he plans to build up the Saints reputation, and
eventually take down the rest of the rival gangs to take complete control of Stilwater
with the help of the Saints’ other lieutenants.
Working with Johnny Gat and Dex, the men stage a plot to fake the death of Gat’s girlfriend,
Aisha, a recording artist for the Vice King’s record label.
This sparks a war with the Kings’ leader, Benjamin King, who eventually surrenders after
the Saints cripple his gang and businesses.
Another saint lieutenant, Jin, goes undercover and infiltrates the Rollerz, but is discovered
and killed.
The protagonist avenges her death by killing their leader, William Sharp, followed by his
nephew, Joseph Price.
The Protagonist and Troy also take down Los Carnales, disrupting their drug deals and
eventually killing their leaders: brothers Hector and Angelo Lopez.
Having successfully taken over Stilwater for the Saints, the protagonist is promoted by
Julius to the gang’s number-two in command.
However, after Julius is arrested, he steps in and takes over leading the Saints.
A corrupt police chief, named Richard Monroe, threatens to kill Julius unless the Saints
publicly assassinate the Mayor, Marshall Winslow.
They do this, but when Monroe doesn’t release Julius in return, the Saints ambush Winslow’s
funeral, and kill Monroe.
Afterwards, alderman and Winslow’s mayoral opponent, Richard Hughes, invites the protagonist
to meet him on his yacht to make peace and retrieve Julius.
However, upon meeting him there, Hughes reveals that he used the Saints’ gang activity as
an excuse to redevelop the community, receiving government funding to do so.
Having no more use in the Saints, Hughes orders his men to kill the protagonist, but just
before they can, a bomb explodes on the boat, killing Hughes and his men, and putting the
protagonist into a coma.
Years later, the protagonist awakens inside of a prison hospital, where he meets another
prisoner, Carlos Mendoza, a brother of a former Saints member, who got himself shanked in
order to meet the protagonist.
Carlos then helps the protagonist escape the prison and steal a boat to get back to Stilwater.
On the way, he explains that without a leader, the Saints have since fallen apart, and new
gangs, along with the mega-corporation Ultor, have sprung up to claim the territory left
vacant by the Saints.
Later, the protagonist catches a news report announcing the death sentence of Johnny Gat,
being prosecuting for 387 murders as well as the attempted murder of Troy Bradshaw,
who had been an undercover cop during his tenure with the Saints, and since became the
chief of police.
The protagonist breaks Gat out of the courthouse, and they reunite with Aisha.
They take over a hotel destroyed by an earthquake and set out to rebuild the gang and recapture
the city.
Looking to recruit new lieutenants, the protagonist suggests Carlos, and Gat brings up two fellow
jail inmates, Pierce Washington and a woman named Shaundi.
Once again, the protagonist works with his lieutenants to take down the rival gangs.
With Pierce, he sets off to take out the Ronin.
However, during this campaign, the Ronin attack the Saints and murder Aisha.
Gat and the protagonist kill their leaders and avenge her death.
Carlos and the protagonist take care of the Brotherhood, however, Carlos is kidnapped
by their leader’s girlfriend, Jessica, and stuffed in a trunk.
The protagonist tries to save him, but arrives too late and is forced to shoot Carlos to
put him out of his misery.
Later, the protagonist kidnaps Jessica, placing her in her trunk and tricking her boyfriend
Maero to kill her in a destruction derby.
Later, the protagonist kills Maero.
Finally, with Shaundi, he takes down the Sons of Samedi, using her connections to ex-boyfriend
DJ Veteran Child, along with her hacking skills.
After taking control of Stilwater once again, the protagonist decides to go visit Troy at
the police station, finding recorded conversations with Dex, who left the Saints to work for
Ultor.
Through these tapes he discovers that it was Julius who planted and detonated the bomb
The protagonist calls Dex, who asks him to meet at the Saints’ old church.
When he gets there, however, instead of Dex, he finds Julius.
The two argue, but are forced to ally temporarily as the church is attacked by Masako, Ultor’s
privatized defense agency.
After surviving the attack, the protagonist shoots Julius in the chest.
Before he dies, however, the two argue about what the Saints have become, before the protagonist
shoots him in the head, finally killing him.
With the rival gangs and Julius out of their way, the Saints are then targeted by Ultor.
A Masako unit attacks and captures the lieutenants, but they all escape, regroup, and plan to
attack their secret facility: the Pyramid.
Johnny and the protagonist do so, destroying Ultors weapons stockpile.
Afterwards, Pierce learns of a meeting between Ultor executives on a cruise ship, which the
protagonist goes to and interrupts, killing it’s participants.
Due to the death of all of Ultor’s directors, Dane Vogel, Ultor’s Head of Special Projects
(who had been using the chaos caused by the Saints and rival gangs to manipulate the housing
market and buy up various plots of land) is promoted to Chairman of the Board for Ultor.
Vogel schedules a press conference to announce this move, but during it, the Saints attempt
an assasination.
An Ultor security guard catches Gat however, and in the scuffle, he fires off a shot, causing
the crowd to scramble, allowing Vogel to escape to his tower in the chaos.
The protagonist is able to attack and infiltrate the building, however, and he confronts Vogel
in his office.
Vogel attempts to reason with him, but he is met with a gunshot to the mouth, which
forces him back through the window, and he falls to his death.
Later, Dex goes into hiding, and the Saints make peace with the new CEO of Ultor, Eric
Gryphon.
This strikes up a partnership between the Saints and Ultor.
Some years later, the Saints have gained an immense amount of fame, becoming a massive
media empire.
A method actor named Josh Birk (known for playing vampire-hunting-vampire Nyte Blayde)
joins the protagonist, Shaundi, and Gat in robbing a bank to better understand his role
in an upcoming biographical film based on the Saints.
However, the attempt is thwarted by operatives of the Morningstar gang, whose leader, Phillipe
Loren, owns the bank.
Josh is able to escape, but the Saints are arrested by SWAT and retrieved by Phillipe’s
right hand women, twins Kiki and Viola DeWynter, and taken to him in his jet.
Phillipe offers them a deal to share their profits with The Syndicate, a larger criminal
organization consisting of multiple gangs, led by Phillipe.
They refuse, and Gat takes over the plane, allowing Shaundi and the protagonist to jump
out of the plane.
Unfortunately, during a call back to Johnny during their escape, the protagonist and Shaundi
hear him get cut off by gunfire.
After landing in the city of Steelport, the Saints vow to avenge Gat’s death by taking
down Phillipe and the Syndicate.
Meanwhile, Phillipe has Matt Miller, leader of the Syndicate gang the Deckers, hacks the
Saints’ bank accounts to bankrupt them.
The Protagonist and Shaundi call in Pierce to join them in their efforts, and with his
help, they take over a penthouse from Morningstar, using it as their new headquarters in Steelport.
During their fight to get to the Syndicate Tower to retrieve Gat’s body, the Saints
meet Oleg, a brutish former KGB agent whom the Syndicate had been experimenting on to
create powerful clone soldiers.
After the protagonist kills Phillipe as he tries to escape the tower, the Saints retrieve
Gat’s body and return to Stilwater to bury him.
However, once there, they are attacked by another Syndicate gang, the Luchadores, led
by Killbane, who has assumed control after Phillipe’s death.
The Luchadores destroy a bridge dedicated to the memory of Richard Hughes, the politician
that planned to kill the protagonist on his Yacht years ago.
After escaping the attack, Oleg informs the Saints that they need to build up some support
in order to take down the much more powerful Syndicate.
They return to Steelport and recruit former FBI agent and hacker Kinzie Kensington, pimp
and criminal resource Zimos, and former Luchadore Angel De LaMuerte.
After a party thrown at Saints HQ is attacked by Morningstar, posing as the strippers, the
protagonist and Zimos decide it’s time to take the gang down.
Meanwhile, Killbane kills Kiki DeWynter, and her sister Viola retreats to join the Saints,
tipping them off on various prostitution operations which they intercept to devalue and take down
Morningstar.
Afterwards, a new Special Tactical Anti-Gang, or STAG, task force is assembled to combat
the gang activity in Steelport, and they begin a war against the Saints, recruiting Josh
Birk to use his Nyte Blayde character as their public mascot.
The saints kidnap Birk in order to draw STAG out, and their leader, Cyrus Temple, makes
a deal for his return in exchange for temporary immunity for the Saints.
However, Shaundi is captured by Cyrus’s second in command, Kia.
The protagonist disguises himself as Cyrus, and arranges a fake capture of Pierce and
Viola, taking them to STAG’s aircraft carrier.
There, they are able to rescue Shaundi, destroying the base as they escape.
After several battles with STAG, including stopping a zombie infestation with Steelport
Mayor Burt Reynolds, as well as discovering and befriending a clone of Gat named Johnny
Tag, the Saints discover that Killbane has publicly begun to blame them for the destruction
of the bridge in Stilwater.
Shaundi and the Protagonist trace the broadcast and chase Killbane down, but he is able to
escape.
However, the protagonist is able to steal a supercomputer, which he uses to enter the
Deckers’ network and defeat their leader, Matt Miller’s avatar, taking them down.
Later, Viola informs the protagonist that the way to finally take down Killbane is to
humiliate him by unmasking him ad the upcoming Murderbrawl wrestling event.
The protagonist and Angel defeat him at Murderbrawl, and humiliate him, finally taking over Steelport
and the fully dissolving the Syndicate.
However, Killbane does not go down easily, and his remaining Luchadores engage in a massive
war with STAG.
As Killbane attempts to flee, the protagonist starts to follow him before receiving a call
from Kia informing him that a monument containing Shaundi, Viola, and the mayor is about to
be blown up.
The protagonist has a choice to kill Killbane, or save Shaundi and the others.
In the canon storyline, he chooses to save Shaundi, and makes his way to the monument.
He removes the bombs from around it, then kills Kia, saving the hostages.
Afterwards, Cyrus attempts to have the Saints arrested as terrorists, but Monica Hughes,
Richard’s widow and current US Senator, lauds them as heroes for saving the monument,
and sends STAG out of Steelport.
Later, we see the Saints on Mars, finally finding and defeating Killbane, however, very
shortly thereafter it is revealed to simply be a scene for a movie starring the Saints
called “Gangstas in Space”.
Shortly after, the Protagonist, Pierce, and Shaundi meet with MI6 Agent Asha Odekar and
her handler Matt Miller and together, they embark on a mission to take down Cyrus, who
has since turned terrorist.
The protagonist kills Cyrus, but not before he successfully launches a nuclear missile
towards Washington D.C.
The protagonist, risking his life, climbs the missile while it launches, disabling it
in mid-air before jumping off as it explodes.
The protagonist falls through the White House, landing in the Oval Office.
This act of heroism leads to the protagonist being elected as President of the United States,
with actor Keith David as his Vice-President, and fellow Saints members as his cabinet.
Five years later, the protagonist, on his way to a press conference, is informed by
Asha and Matt of an incoming alien invasion.
Very shortly thereafter, the invasion begins, and their leader, Zinyak, captures the cabinet
before fighting hand-to-hand with the protagonist.
Our hero is unable to defeat Zinyak, however, who defeats him with his superior strength.
The protagonist then wakes up, seemingly in a squeaky-clean 1950s sitcom.
Suspecting something wrong, the protagonist eventually hears Kinzie, who hacks into this
simulation and provides him with various weapons to cause a disruption to the system.
Zinyak becomes angered by this defiance, and throws the protagonist into a simulation of
an alien-controlled version of Steelport, threatening to destroy Earth if he tries to
escape.
With Kenzie’s help however, the protagonist escapes this simulation and meets her and
Keith David, and the three steal an alien ship to escape.
As they head back to Earth, Zinyak holds true on his threat, and destroys the planet before
they can arrive.
Vowing to avenge the loss of the planet, the protagonist continuously re-enters the simulation
to rescue the other Saints by helping them escape with assistance from another trapped
being named CID, whom they find a robot body for.
After rescuing the other Saints, the protagonist learns that Johnny Gat is actually still alive,
and was never gunned down, but instead captured by Zinyak, who saw him as a threat to his
Earth invasion plans.
Gat is rescued, but in doing so, the Saints reveal their position to Zinyak, who ambushes
their ship and captures Kinzie.
Keith also double crosses the Saints in a deal with Zinyak to restore Earth.
However, the protagonist, with the help of pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper, snap Keith
back into reality and convince him to come back.
The protagonist also re-enters the 1950s simulation to save Kinzie and bring her back as well.
The protagonist then overloads the simulation, and steals a pair of power armor, using it
to fight Zinyak, eventually beheading him and taking over his alien empire.
Zinyaks former servant, Zinjai, informs him that the aliens had a method of time-travel,
allowing the Saints to return back to a time before the Earth was destroyed.
They also release a captured Jane Austen.
Sometime after the Saints travel through time, they return to their ship and celebrate Kinzie’s
birthday.
However, after pulling out a Ouija Board that once belonged to occultist Aleister Crowley,
they ask it whom the protagonist will marry.
Unbeknownst to them, Satan spells out “Jezebel”, his daughter, and he opens a portal which
pulls the protagonist down to Hell.
Gat and Kinzie follow him to Hell, and surprisingly find Ultor, as well as their former head,
Dane Vogel, who actually helps them save the protagonist.
After gaining Satan’s attention, Gat makes his way to Satan’s palace to stop the wedding.
There, Satan offers to let Kinzie and the protagonist go free if Gat agrees to take
his place as Jezebel’s husband.
Johnny refuses and forces Satan into a fight, which he successfully defeats him in.
Kinzie, the protagonist, and Jezebel are sent back to the mortal world, but Gat is held
by God, who explains that Satan actually captured the protagonist to use him in an attack on
heaven.
To repay Johnny for stopping the plot, he offers him five choices: to go to Heaven and
reunite with Aisha, return to Hell to take Satan’s place as king, locate a new planet
for the Saints to rebuild Humanity, be told all of the secrets of the universe, or recreate
Earth and reset the entire universe of the Saints Row series.
If Gat chooses the option to recreate Earth, we find him and Kinzie in the new Universe
as law enforcement agents, preparing to question somebody named Brimstone.
This is Persephone Brimstone, a former member of the super villain organization L.E.G.I.O.N.,
which she left after the latter’s leader, the Morningstar, decided to use Dark Matter
to achieve ultimate power and take over the world.
After L.E.G.I.O.N.
revealed themselves to the world with a massive attack that later became known as Devil’s
Night, Persephone sets up her own team, M.A.Y.H.E.M. at a base in Seoul, South Korea, and she sends
her agents to track down Dr. Babylon, the leader of L.E.G.I.O.N.’s Ministry of Pride.
To combat them, Babylon first uses one of his subordinates to cause terror to distract
the agents, who ultimately defeat him.
Babylon then uses a young singer named August Gaunt and his influence to brainwash his legion
of fans against M.A.Y.H.E.M., but they are able to turn off his voice correcting technology,
upsetting his fans and eliminating his power.
Later, M.A.Y.H.E.M.
attempts to steal a virus in the form of a virtual pop-idol called AISHA.
However, another one of Babylon’s men, a cybernetic warrior named Steeltoe, finds the
virus and falls in love with her.
The two then arrange a virtual “wedding” but the agents crash it and stop the unison,
eventually destroying AISHA.
Babylon then sends Ariadne, a scientist whom he tries to control with a microchip to attack
the agents.
She is able to overcome the influence of the chip, but the ordeal drives her insane, and
she instead plots revenge against Babylon, who has created a giant robot, named Project
Damocles, to launch an attack on the city and obtain a dark matter crystal.
However, Babylon learns that Ariadne had put her microchip into Damocles in order to drive
Babylon insane, but this instead leads him to realize that he can bypass L.E.G.I.O.N,
and use the dark matter to remake reality in his image.
The agents then enter the rift he has created, and destroy the dark matter crystal, foiling
his plan and restoring reality.
Afterwards, Babylon is taken by a L.E.G.I.O.N.
enforcer named Marcus Longinus, and Persephone decides to pull M.A.Y.H.E.M. out of Seoul,
leaving their next mission to take down L.E.G.I.O.N.
currently unwritten.
And with that, we reach the end of the Saints Row saga, but who knows, maybe one day, we’ll
return to Stilwater or Steelport for a new adventure with our favorite purple-clad gang.
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