Trevor is a career criminal and former bank robber with a troubled past and raging abandonment issues. After founding his own company, Trevor Philips Enterprises, he seeks to expand his control over the illegal gun and drug trade in Blaine County, San Andreas. Upon learning of his former friend and partner-in-crime Michael's survival, Trevor, having presumed Michael to be dead for a decade, finds him and resumes their old partnership, but soon discovers troubling secrets about their shared past that lead him to question his loyalties.

Following the events of Grand Theft Auto V, Trevor is referenced in content updates for Grand Theft Auto Online taking place after the single-player story. These confirm that Trevor has retired his company and left Blaine County for new pastures, but his current whereabouts remain unknown.

What is known about Trevor's background is highly speculative and comes from his own words. Trevor was born and raised in Canada, near the border with the United States, or, as he calls it, the "Canadian border region of America". He claims he "grew up in five states, two countries", in "fourteen different homes", "three care homes", "two correctional facilities", with "eight fathers", and "one beautiful, damaged flower of a mother."

As a child, Trevor had a history of rage issues and violent impulses that ruined any chances of fitting into society. He claims that, in a fit of rage, he sodomized his hockey coach with a hockey stick, and at some point he supposedly strangled a clarinet player with his own instrument. Trevor also claims to have killed various animals and "drifters" even during the early years of his life

Trevor's childhood itself was an unhappy one. His father was physically abusive towards him, while his mother was emotionally abusive, overbearing, treated him with condescension and saw him as a "useless boy" who cared little about her. When he was a child, Trevor's father abandoned him in a shopping mall, which Trevor claims to have later burned down in retaliation. Trevor also had a brother named Ryan, whom Trevor was not fond of. Ryan died in an "accident" prior to 2013.

Trevor dropped out of school, ultimately robbing him of some grammatical skills and basic knowledge, such as the location of ancient Rome, which he believed to be part of America. It is possible, however, that he had some formal education, as he claims — though possibly sarcastically — that he took a night class in criminal law. Despite this, he does have good mathematical skills, such as being able to accurately calculate the price of four tons of gold in a matter of seconds. Trevor also claims that he was the Canadian under-18 Golf Champion and "almost turned pro".

Later in his life, Trevor discovered that he had a talent for flying jets. He enlisted in the air force to fly fighter jets, but several days prior to completing his training and becoming a licensed pilot, Trevor was deemed mentally unstable during a psychological evaluation, thus resulting in his discharge and grounding for life. It is implied his discharge was due to his psychological relationship with his mother.

After leaving the military, Trevor became a drifter and committed petty crimes along the border with no particular goal in mind. In the late 1980s or early '90s, around the age of 20, he eventually began running a small air freight operation in North Yankton, where he met his future partner-in-crime, Michael Townley.

While waiting on the runway to meet his employer, he saw not one but two dust trails coming up the road, despite the fact that he was told there would be only one person meeting him. Michael exited the first car while an older man whom Michael previously carjacked exited the other, yelling at them. Trevor shot off a flare gun he was carrying into the older man's eye, killing him. He and Michael both dumped the body into a lake afterwards. The flare was still burning from the inside of his head, causing the pair to throw up. After the incident, Trevor and Michael became friends and started a criminal partnership together.

Trevor's first job involved robbing a place that cashed checks. However, he was caught because the clerk turned out to be someone who knew him, resulting in him serving four months of a six-month sentence. After Trevor was released, he and Michael committed many robberies all over the Midwest, though Michael's recognizable quoting of lines from Solomon Richards's movies, and Trevor's habit to snap and murder people in broad daylight often kept them on the run. Throughout their crime spree, they worked with several other accomplices; the closest one being Lester Crest – a talented hacker and heist planner.

Over time, Michael developed a relationship with and married a stripper named Amanda, eventually having two kids, Tracey and Jimmy. This created some friction between the criminals, due to Michael spending more and more time with his new family and less with his criminal activities. Despite this, Trevor began to see himself as an uncle to the couple's children, even vowing to avenge Tracey should anyone 'wrong her'. Over the following years, Michael became more cautious as a criminal because he saw himself having more to lose should he be imprisoned or killed, which led Trevor to believe Michael was going "soft". As a result, Trevor recruited a fellow crook named Brad Snider to take part in their robberies. Michael and Lester distrusted Brad, never showing any empathy towards him. At some point, Brad suggested to Trevor that they cut off Michael and work only with each other. Trevor refused, believing he should stay loyal to Michael.

Trevor and Michael remained partners in crime until they undertook an ill-fated heist in 2004 alongside Brad and a getaway driver in Ludendorff, North Yankton. Secretly, Michael made an agreement with corrupt FIB agent Dave Norton to exit his life of crime and start over with his family in Los Santos. The plan involved the group robbing a cash depot, followed by them making their way to a rendezvous point, where Dave would fatally shoot Trevor and non-fatally shoot Michael, with the latter then pretending to be buried at the Ludendorff Cemetery, before actually moving to Los Santos with his family.

The heist initially ran relatively smoothly until two security guards were killed – the second one by Trevor as the guard held Michael at gunpoint – and the police arrived, which the group had to fight through, barely managing to get to their getaway car. As they drove to the rendezvous point, where they were told a helicopter was waiting for them, their driver was killed by the police and Michael was forced to take the wheel, though their vehicle was struck by an oncoming train at a railroad crossing and destroyed. Michael insisted that they stick to the plan, and they began walking in search of the helicopter. They were then ambushed by Dave, who fired at the trio, missing Trevor and fatally wounding Brad instead, before shooting again and "injuring" Michael. Trevor refused to leave his friends behind and attempted to fight off the police until a weary Michael told him to save himself, prompting Trevor to reluctantly make his escape.

As a result of the failed heist, both Trevor and Michael wrongly believed one another to be dead. Trevor was not able to get access to his savings because of his identity being blown, but regardless managed to evade the police for several years and made a new life for himself in the rural town of Sandy Shores, San Andreas. There, he developed an addiction to crystal meth and founded a small criminal business with new-found partners Ron Jakowski, a paranoiac conspiracy theorist, and Chef, a meth cook. The business, named Trevor Philips Enterprises (alternatively called Trevor Philips Industries), specialized in arms smuggling and the cooking and sale of crystal methamphetamine. During Trevor's time in Sandy Shores, he affiliated himself with the Aztecas gang, the redneck hillbilly O'Neil Brothers, and high-ranked members of The Lost MC – including the club's leader, Johnny Klebitz. However, the latter's relationship was particularly strained due to Trevor's tendency to occasionally have with Johnny's girlfriend, Ashley Butler, in exchange for meth payments, much to Johnny's chagrin.

Trevor, unaware that Brad had succumbed to his injuries, incorrectly believed he had been incarcerated as a result of the failed Ludendorff heist, and sent a letter to the federal prison system addressed to him. However, the letter was intercepted by the FIB, who established a correspondence to monitor him. The responses Trevor received from "Brad" were actually written by FIB trainees under the direction of Dave Norton.

In 2012, Fooliganz Wade Hebert, Daisy Bell, Kush-Chronic, and several others stopped in Sandy Shores to buy drugs while on their way to "the gathering". They met Trevor, who took the group, save Wade, to a nearby quarry and is implied to have murdered them. Wade never figured out what happened to his friends and decided to stay in Sandy Shores, joining Trevor's criminal empire. At some point, Trevor rammed a hockey stick up Wade's anus, just like he had done before to his hockey coach.

While having with Ashley, Trevor's attention is caught by a news report about the robbery of a jewelry store in Los Santos, during which a witness claims one of the robbers quoted a movie phrase that was a favorite of Michael Townley's. Stunned, Trevor grabs a beer and walks out his trailer to process it, only to be confronted by Johnny for having with Ashley again. While trying to avoid a confrontation by simply walking away, he is pushed to his breaking-point as Johnny continues to express his anger. Trevor, no longer able to ignore Johnny's rage, mockingly invites him to have , and starts making jokes about his meth addiction, claiming that it is the reason for the friction between the two men. Johnny lays his guard down and tells Trevor that he still loves Ashley, to which Trevor responds by hugging and "consoling" him before he finally snaps. He suddenly grabs the biker by the neck and throws him to the ground, where he proceeds to smash his beer bottle against Johnny's face and stomp repeatedly on his head, killing Johnny as Wade, Ron, and Ashley watch in horror.

Knowing that Johnny's gang will be outraged over their leader's callous murder, Trevor decides to preemptively wipe out The Lost MC and their meth business from Blaine County before they have a chance to exact revenge. He drives with Wade and Ron to a Lost hangout in Grapeseed where Terry Thorpe, Clay Simons, and several other members of the Lost are. While driving, he has the option to run over Ashley as she cries over Johnny's body. After announcing and mocking Johnny's death, the members of The Lost retreat to their main hideout, to notify the rest of the gang. Trevor aggressively follows them there in his Canis Bodhi, with Ron and Wade tagging along. As he chases the bikers, Trevor can optionally kill Terry and Clay by shooting or running them off their bikes.

When they arrive, Trevor, alongside Ron and Wade, attacks the hideout and wipes out a number of Lost members. Afterwards, he orders Wade to find out where Michael Townley lives. In the meantime, Trevor and Ron do more work, including attacking the trailer of Aztecas leader Ortega, along with optionally killing him, and taking over an airfield run by The Lost MC, after they vandalize Trevor's trailer as revenge for him killing Johnny.

Trevor attempts to do business with the Los Santos Triads, led by a man known as Wei Cheng, who wants a reliable partner to help expand his business operations in Blaine County. Wei sends his son, Tao Cheng, along with a translator to meet with Trevor, who attempts to show them his meth lab. During the tour, he is forced to hide the translator and Tao in a freezer when members of the Aztecas attack, resulting in a shootout, which Trevor emerges victorious from. Ultimately, however, the Triads cancel the potential deal with Trevor and choose to do business with the rival O'Neil Brothers gang instead.

Enraged after learning this, Trevor decides to kill the O'Neils. On the way to their ranch, Trevor receives a phone call from Elwood O'Neil who invites Trevor to talk so they can smooth the issue over, but Trevor declines the offer and lets Elwood know what he plans to do. A panicked Elwood tells his brothers and associates to protect the farm before leaving with two of his other brothers, Walton and Wynn, to meet with the Triads. Despite the O'Neils' efforts, Trevor attacks the O'Neil Ranch, slaughtering the brothers and obliterating their farm by lighting a gas trail he made using a Jerry Can from their basement meth lab.

A short while later, Trevor receives news from Wade that two people named Michael Townley live in Los Santos, but neither match Trevor's description, as one is an old man and the other is in kindergarten. However, Wade claims that a man who matches Michael Townley's profile named "Michael De Santa" lives in Los Santos, has two children and is married to a woman named Amanda. Trevor recognizes his old partner's alias and decides to take a trip to the city with Wade. Before leaving, he briefly visits The Lost MC's main hideout as a new chapter was recommissioned there to continue business. He destroys their camp entirely with Sticky Bombs, further removing the group's presence from Sandy Shores. Afterwards, he arrives in the city and locates an apartment where Wade's cousin Floyd lives, deciding to stay there, despite Floyd's protests.

Trevor then tracks down Michael to his home in the affluent district of Rockford Hills, surprising and shocking everyone in the house, who all believed Michael's word that Trevor was likely dead. When Trevor asks where Tracey is, Jimmy reveals that she is auditioning for Fame or Shame. Trevor and Michael rush to the Maze Bank Arena, knowing well that Tracey will humiliate herself with her terrible dancing on TV. The two disrupt the audition, where Tracey is just as surprised as the rest of her family to see Trevor. When the presenter of the show, Lazlow Jones, begins to make sexual advances towards Tracey during her dance, Trevor and Michael become angry and chase Lazlow to the Los Santos River, where Trevor humiliates the reality TV star by making him take off his pants and dance while he films it on his mobile phone, before leaving.

After learning that Floyd works at the Port of Los Santos, Trevor, along with Wade, forcibly accompanies him to his job, disguised as dock workers to see if anything worth stealing is present. While they are there, Trevor learns that a private security force named Merryweather has a freighter ship containing secret cargo. Assuming the object is valuable, he plans a heist to steal the cargo for himself with the help of Michael, whom Trevor feels "owes him one".

Before the planned robbery can go underway, however, Trevor, along with Michael, are contacted by a highly-decorated yet highly-corrupt FIB agent named Steve Haines for assistance in extracting an Azerbaijani prisoner named Ferdinand Kerimov, who is being held by the IAA at their headquarters. Before the operation is underway, Michael introduces Trevor to his recently antiquated friend, a Families gang member named Franklin Clinton. Trevor assists in the operation by flying the helicopter used to allow Michael to extract the prisoner from the building, which he promptly keeps for himself afterwards 'in lieu of payment'.

Trevor later visits Franklin in his neighborhood, telling him and his friend Lamar that he is looking to make "friends". He accompanies the pair on a minor drug deal at Grove Street set up by a fellow gang member named Stretch, much to Lamar's annoyance. The deal initially goes smoothly, until Trevor grows suspicious and attempts to take a sample of the cocaine brick they were going to purchase. He snaps the brick in half, revealing a key inside and that it was actually a piece of drywall. A gunfight breaks out, and the three have to fight through a group of oncoming rival Ballas gang members. The LSPD arrive, so Lamar leads Franklin and Trevor down into the Los Santos River. Hijacking jet skis from a rapper's professional photo shoot, the trio escape via the river from the oncoming police.

Trevor is brought back to work for the FIB once more, this time to interrogate Kerimov, the man he helped to rescue from the IAA. Trevor extracts information out of Kerimov by torturing him, while Haines observes and asks the questions, before relaying the answers to Michael and Dave Norton, who are supposed to find and assassinate alleged Azerbaijani terrorist Tahir Javan. After the job is done, Haines orders Trevor to kill Kerimov and dispose of his body before leaving. Instead of following Haines' orders, Trevor helps Kerimov escape by driving him to the Los Santos airport and telling him to run away in order to become an advocate against government-sanctioned torture, despite the fact that Kerimov lives in Los Santos, has American citizenship, and has family living there as well.

Eventually, Trevor gets to put his heist into motion and manages to steal the target cargo with the help of Michael and Franklin. However, Michael and Trevor's old contact whom the former had recently been working with again, Lester Crest, arrives to discourage Trevor from taking the cargo, as it is in fact a superweapon that the U.S. government were planning to trade to the Chinese and will stop at nothing to recover it, especially if it is in the hands of a person like Trevor. Trevor initially refuses to give it up, but is forced to do so when Michael and Franklin agree it is not worth keeping due to its dangerous nature.

Following the heist, Trevor receives a call from Elwood O'Neil, who threatens to kill Trevor for murdering his brothers and destroying the O'Neil family ranch in Sandy Shores. Trevor ignores the threat and invites Elwood and what remains of his family to come and find him in Los Santos before hanging up the call.

Getting over the failed heist, Trevor continues to do jobs with Michael and Franklin, including stealing money from an armored car and helping to procure luxury vehicles for a billionaire named Devin Weston, the latter of which they are not paid for, greatly enraging them. Eventually, Trevor takes a job with Michael that involves assassinating the cousin of Mexican drug lord Martin Madrazo, for planning to testify against him in a court case. Trevor is under the assumption that Michael brought him on to help case Madrazo's house, but when he mentions this, Michael clarifies they are not going to rob Madrazo, annoying Trevor. After Michael shoots down the plane that Madrazo's cousin was flying on, Trevor finds the crash site and kills the cousin, who survived the crash, then recovers the testimony. As Trevor drops it off at Madrazo's ranch, payment negotiations fall through and he witnesses Madrazo mistreating his wife, Patricia. Trevor, having developed an infatuation with her and already being in a poor mood over not getting to rob Madrazo, severs one of his ears and kidnaps Patricia, forcing himself and Michael to go into hiding at the former's trailer. During this time, the pair are unable to enter Los Santos without being attacked by Madrazo's men.

Whilst in hiding, Trevor continues trying to run his business, kills what's left of the O'Neils with Michael and Franklin, and helps rob a bank in Paleto Bay in order to secure funding for another FIB job, which then requires him to help Michael and Dave Norton escape the Humane Labs and Research facility as they try to steal a neurotoxic chemical being developed there. Eventually, Michael repays Madrazo with an artifact he and Trevor steal from a Merryweather train, while a reluctant Trevor returns Patricia to her husband, whom he threatens with further violence should he ever mistreat his wife again. With his problems with Madrazo now taken care of, Trevor and Michael are once again able to safely enter Los Santos.

Upon Trevor's return to Floyd's apartment, he encounters Floyd's girlfriend Debra, who has returned home from a business trip overseas. Debra quickly becomes annoyed with Trevor's presence, demanding that he leave. Trevor drives Debra to her limits after suggesting that she caught crabs at the conference she attended and that they were "regular little fests", and eventually breaks down crying and makes a mocking proposal to marry Debra and Floyd. An enraged Debra brandishes a gun at Trevor, and Floyd picks up a nearby knife after mustering some courage, to which Trevor tells them that they "are not very fucking nice". In the ensuing chaos, Floyd is shot in the head and Debra is stabbed to death. After leaving the apartment, a blood-stained Trevor encounters Wade, who asks where Floyd is. Trevor lies to him and says that Debra and Floyd mysteriously "disappeared" and probably won't come back. Wade and Trevor then move into the Vanilla Unicorn strip club after "taking it over" by murdering the previous manager. There, he meets with Michael, Franklin, and Lester to plan the robbery of the Union Depository. In order to do so, they survey the depository for any possible escape routes. Michael and Franklin observe by car, while Trevor and Lester observe by helicopter.

After meeting up with Michael at his mansion, Trevor tries to convince Michael that they bust Brad out of prison and start robbing banks like they used to do years ago. Michael refuses, however, due to the fact that he has a family and wants to make movies, which irritates Trevor. Because of Michael's reluctance to talk about Brad and Trevor's suspicions about what actually happened in North Yankton and who was really buried in Michael's grave, Trevor deduces that Michael betrayed him and flies back to North Yankton, with Michael in pursuit. Trevor arrives first at the graveyard and exhumes Michael Townley's grave. His suspicions are confirmed when he finds Brad's decaying corpse in Michael's place. After a stand-off at the grave, during which Michael somewhat explains the deal that took place between him and Dave Norton, Trevor, feeling hurt and betrayed by Michael's revelation, flees when the duo is ambushed by Wei Cheng's Triads, who had followed Michael from the airport, hoping that he would lead them to Trevor.

As Trevor flies back to San Andreas, he receives a phone call from Wei Cheng who threatens Trevor, claiming that he kidnapped Michael and that he will kill him if he does not surrender his business in Sandy Shores, mistaking Michael as Trevor's lover due to the fact that they lived together in his trailer for the period of time while Madrazo was after them. Trevor ignores the threat due to his newly ignited feud with Michael and tells Cheng to do as he pleases.

Much later, Trevor meets up with Franklin at his aunt's house in Strawberry. When Franklin asks him about Michael's whereabouts, Trevor becomes agitated as he reluctantly tells Franklin that Michael was kidnapped by the Triads before punching a nearby pedestrian and leaving, requiring Franklin to rescue Michael. At some point afterwards, Trevor wakes up drunk on a small island off the coast of the Palomino Highlands, surrounded by the bodies of Lost MC members, presumably having been killed by Trevor.

Although he now considers Michael to be his enemy, Trevor, aware that he and Michael need each other to pull off the Union Depository heist that they've dreaming about for ages, and refusing to allow anyone but himself to kill Michael, comes to assist Michael and Dave Norton when they are ambushed by the FIB, IAA, and Merryweather at the Kortz Center. After helping deal with an incident where Lamar is set up by Stretch to be captured by the Ballas, the Union Depository heist is carried out successfully, as Trevor and the crew manage to escape with tons of gold worth millions.

After the heist, Franklin is given separate orders by Steve Haines and Devin Weston to kill one of his friends. Haines wants him to kill Trevor due to his unpredictable nature making Trevor a liability, while Weston wants him to kill Michael as revenge for the death of his lawyer and subsequent failure to murder Michael's family, both incidents that Weston blames Michael for. Franklin must choose to kill Michael, kill Trevor, or save them and team up with them both to kill all of their enemies.

Trevor has an athletic build. He has brown eyes and receding black hair. In his official artwork, however, he has dark brown hair.

He also has several cuts on his face along with several tattoos including one along his neck featuring a dotted line and the words "CUT HERE", and a memorial tattoo for Michael on his shoulder, as well as a flying bird behind his ear, blazing skull on his left hand and the words " YOU" across his knuckles. Trevor has a visible scar on his abdomen from what looks to be a knife wound. Trevor also has numerous sores or boils over his lower stomach and back, likely from his s.

Trevor's default outfit is a plain and dirty white V-neck, ripped up dirty blue jeans or sweatpants and a pair of brown boots. He is seen in one screenshot with a different outfit on—a jean jacket with a half buttoned up shirt along with a white undershirt and a pair of blue jeans. Also, in some screenshots, during the second Grand Theft Auto V trailer and wearing his default outfit, he is seen wearing a calculator watch on his left wrist.

During the Prologue mission, which took place 9 years before the game's events, Trevor sports a different appearance. He isn't bald (although his hairline has started to retreat and there's a small bald spot on the back of his head), has a mullet covering his entire back of the neck, and sports a mustache. These facial features can be purchased at barbers around Los Santos, although Trevor will still be balding with the mullet, like all his hair options. He also lacks his "CUT HERE" tattoo.

He seems fond of buying cheap clothing from Binco and the Discount Shop, while he shows total disdain for buying clothes from Ponsonby's. Some characters also mention that he is an extremely untidy and messy person when it comes to clothes and hygiene. When Michael and Trevor reunite, Michael claims Trevor "[stinks] like piss" and has blood under his fingernails. During the Paleto Score Setup, Michael calls Trevor a "proto-hipster" because his clothes are never clean and never fit. Also, Lamar Davis claims that Trevor has a "smell of ass on the distance of three meters."

There is a running joke during the story of GTA V of characters mistaking Trevor for some celebrity or movie actor. During the Strangers and Freaks mission Nigel and Mrs. Thornhill, the couple Nigel and Mrs. Thornhill mistake Trevor for being the actor and stuntman Jock Cranley. After Franklin met Trevor in Three's Company, he brings him up to Beverly Felton during Paparazzo - The Partnership, where Beverly initially believes Trevor was on the show The Men's Room, which Franklin dismisses. There is also unique pedestrian dialogue for when the player is using Trevor, where pedestrians may mention how Trevor looks exactly like someone they saw in Midget Fuckers 22.

Relationships:

Michael De Santa - Trevor's relationship with Michael started around the late 1980s, over twenty years prior to the game's events, when he and Trevor were escorting cargo across the border. Trevor claims that Michael's victim came after him, so Trevor shot a flare into the other man's head and dumped the body using his plane (which Trevor claimed "Never smelled the same again."), and as soon as they left the plane, they both threw up and became friends. Michael roped Trevor into his many bank robberies and the two worked well together, growing a fondness for one another. At some point during their long partnership, however, there was a rift in their friendship, likely caused by Michael starting a family and wishing to settle down. Trevor began seeing Michael as "soft", but remained loyal to him and refused to abandon him even when Brad suggested that they cut him off. Unbeknownst to Trevor, Michael did not share his levels of loyalty, seeing Trevor as a reckless and dangerous psychopath. This eventually led him to make a secret deal with FIB agent Dave Norton to sell out his crew during their heist in North Yankton, after which both Trevor and Michael assumed one another to be dead. Trevor would subsequently mourn for Michael and at some point had "R.I.P Michael" tattooed on his arm to commemorate his best friend.

After their eventual reunion nine years later, Trevor is initially furious with Michael for not contacting him at any point after starting his new life in Los Santos, but quickly forgives him and the two resume their old friendship and partnership. Trevor seems to share a strange bond with Michael, as indicated by the fact that he tolerates his betrayal and occasional references to Trevor's Canadian roots, whereas others have been killed for far less. Once Trevor figures out what truly went down in North Yankton, however, he contemplates killing Michael before abandoning him to the mercy of Wei Cheng's henchmen, later refusing to rescue him even when Wei Cheng contacts Trevor to tell him that Michael will be killed. After Franklin rescues Michael, Trevor, despite still hating the latter, comes to his aid during the shootout at the Kortz Center, believing he needs Michael alive for their final score: the Union Depository heist. After the heist is pulled off successfully, Trevor is so pleased that he no longer wants to kill Michael, though he still sees him as a "snake".

In Something Sensible, after Michael arrives to help Franklin kill Trevor, the latter states, I thought I was with one Judas! I'm surrounded by them. He then allows the pair to kill him, being so hurt by the betrayal of his closest friends that he has lost his will to live. In The Time's Come, Franklin calls Trevor to help him kill Michael, but he refuses, saying he has enough "traitors" in his life. If Franklin meets with Trevor afterwards, the latter deduces that Franklin went through with killing Michael and calls him a Judas and a backstabber before warning him to stay away. It is implied Trevor was willing to forgive Michael, but never got the chance to apologize. In The Third Way, Trevor and Michael continue to be at odds and aim their guns at each other until Franklin calms them down and explains that they need to work together to eliminate their enemies. Trevor is the first to relent and lower his gun, after which he, Michael and Franklin take out their various foes. In the aftermath, Trevor and Michael finally manage to rekindle their friendship, with Trevor considering Michael a friend, albeit one that he hates, which Michael accepts. If Trevor and Michael hang out afterwards, the latter extends a genuine apology to Trevor and offers him his share of the Big Score; Trevor declines the money but accepts the apology. On a subsequent hangout, Trevor will also apologize to Michael, claiming he shouldn't have acted the way he did. If Franklin hangs out with Trevor, he will ask him why he did not kill Michael, to which Trevor admits that he somewhat understands why Michael did what he did and that it would be wrong to kill him since he has a family. He also jokingly states that he and Michael both have "custody" over Franklin.

Franklin Clinton - Trevor is introduced to Franklin by Michael. They seem to be very good partners during the jobs they perform together, and later become close friends. Franklin is one of the few people who doesn't feel intimidated by Trevor's rage and violent outbursts. In fact, he usually manages to cool Trevor down in a collected manner. In the optional ending that involves killing Trevor, he protests that he's been nothing but straight and true with Franklin. In the ending where Franklin kills Michael, Trevor would cut off ties with him and claim that he's dead to him. Should all three protagonists survive, Trevor will continue to see Franklin as a friend and tell him that he's "proud" of him when they hang out.

Ron Jakowski - Ron is the closest thing Trevor has to a "friend", besides Franklin and Michael, though their relationship is very one-sided. Trevor frequently abuses Ron both physically and verbally for his own amusement, while Ron only hangs around him out of fear, being very paranoid or outright terrified when spending time with Trevor. Despite Ron often being on the end of Trevor's temper, Trevor places high levels of trust in him, such as allowing him to run TP Enterprises in his absence. When introducing Ron to Michael, Trevor describes him as a "good guy, very loyal," and after Ron sources getaway vehicles for the duo in Derailed, Trevor describes him as "dependable".

Wade Hebert - Wade appears to be good "friends" with Trevor and has been since they met the year before the events of the game. Wade is extremely loyal to Trevor and has no problem following his directions. Wade's stupidity and child-like personality cause him to occasionally screw up his tasks, which understandably gets on Trevor's nerves. In spite of Trevor being annoyed by Wade, he does generally care about him since he is useful for his business plans. Trevor also sees potential in Wade, as evidenced by the time when they met and Trevor caused Wade's friends Kush-Chronic and Daisy Bell to "disappear", while sparing Wade himself.

Floyd Hebert - Floyd appears to be terrified of Trevor. He's forced by Trevor to help him in his crimes, under menace of having his home and furniture trashed. In the mission Hang Ten, he finally decides to stand up to Trevor, along with his girlfriend Debra, ordering him to leave their condo. After a heated discussion, Debra pulls a gun on Trevor, and Floyd draws a knife to defend himself, making Trevor presumably kill both of them off-screen. Despite this, deep down Trevor may have actually cared for Floyd's miserable life, as in the mission Scouting the Port he spoke to Wade about bringing Floyd up from his low self-esteem. Later, he got out his to rest Floyd's insecurity about his own (though maybe for different reasons than care). He also notably had a concerned facial expression when Debra called Floy "crap" shortly before their murder.

Mrs. Philips - Trevor's mother is only seen during the Strangers and Freaks mission Mrs. Philips. She is implied to have been an abusive and neglectful parent, while at the same time having very high expectations of her son and constantly chastising him. Before the events of the game, she was a stripper/prostitute, as seen in her and Trevor's comments (he states this sometimes when having a private dance). She was also an inmate and became disappointed in Trevor because he never wrote or visited her. During her mission, she asks if Trevor has found a woman yet and does not let him answer the question. She also asks if he's , because she has no problem with it. After the mission, she disappears and Trevor is seen crying on the floor. She is highly respected by Trevor, and he gets insulted should anyone ever bring her up, even if they are speaking positively of her. She is the only known person Trevor is afraid of.

Patricia Madrazo - Trevor first met Patricia when visiting her husband's house alongside Michael, and immediately developed an attraction towards her. After Martin refuses to pay him for his work, Trevor, seeing how neglected and abused Patricia is by her husband, decides to kidnap her and hold her hostage at his trailer in Sandy Shores. As time goes on, Patricia is no longer tied up and is seen cooking meals for Trevor, which leads Michael to suggest both have contracted Stockholm syndrome. Trevor soon becomes protective of Patricia, and admits that he loves her and vice versa. When he is forced to return her to Martin, he does so tearfully and promises to rip off Martin's other ear if Trevor finds out he has been mistreating Patricia yet again. For the rest of the game, Patricia will secretly call Trevor on occasion. During the events of The Cayo Perico Heist in 2020, their relationship is confirmed to have been intimate, as they took pictures during their intercourse.

Lamar Davis - Lamar first met Trevor during the mission Hood Safari. Though Lamar initially felt uneasy in Trevor's presence and repeatedly asked Franklin who he was, he soon grew to like him, nicknaming him "Crazy White Dude" due to Trevor's behavior, and even telling Franklin to learn from his being "cold". Lamar will also warmly greet Trevor when meeting him during Lamar Down.

Steve Haines - Trevor first meets Haines during a job to extract Ferdinand Kerimov from the IAA headquarters, and takes an immediate dislike of him. Haines forces him, Michael and Franklin into his operations, with Trevor in particular having to torture Kerimov to extract information that can be used to identify and kill Tahir Javan. Haines also gets the protagonists to perform several heists for him. However, more and more suspicion from the FIB falls on Haines, causing him to become extremely paranoid. He, along with Andreas Sanchez, confronts Michael and Dave Norton at the Kortz Center and attempts to have them framed and arrested for ruining his career. After an ambush by the IAA, Merryweather and rival FIB forces, Haines kills Sanchez and escapes, leaving Michael and Norton to die; however, they manage to shoot their way out, with the assistance of Trevor, who wants Michael alive for the "Big Score". After the shootout, an infuriated Haines wishes to have Trevor, Michael and Franklin killed; Norton convinces him to have only Trevor killed as Franklin and Michael are easier to control. Haines then tasks Franklin with killing Trevor. If "Deathwish" is chosen, the protagonists team up and take down Haines' corrupt FIB unit and Devin Weston's private Merryweather battalion at a foundry, after which Trevor volunteers to deal with Haines, claiming he wanted to kill him from the moment they met. Using information provided by Lester Crest, Trevor finds Haines shooting an episode of his show on a ferris wheel at Del Perro Pier, and kills him.

Devin Weston - Trevor meets Weston for the first time during a job for Steve Haines. Weston later offers Michael an opportunity to produce a film with Michael's idol - movie producer Solomon Richards - and also offers Franklin and Trevor a deal to steal five rare cars, which Weston will sell to government officials in China. However, he ultimately cheats them out of their payment, and also attempts to have Michael's family killed after Michael accidentally caused the death of Devin's lawyer. This incident leads Weston to order Franklin to kill Michael. If "Deathwish" is chosen, Trevor, Michael and Franklin take out Haines' corrupt FIB unit and Weston's Merryweather battalion at a foundry, after which they kill Haines, Stretch and Wei Cheng. After killing Haines, Trevor kidnaps Devin from his mansion, shoves him inside the trunk of one of his cars, and drives him to a cliff, located at the foothills of Mount Chiliad. Michael and Franklin later show up and the three protagonists taunt a beaten Devin before pushing the car (with him still inside the trunk) off the cliff. The car repeatedly crashes into several rocks along the way, until it finally hits the ocean ground and explodes, killing Weston.

GTA Online Protagonist - The GTA Online Protagonist first fell under Trevor's radar when they unwittingly stole an RV used by Trevor as a meth lab for Gerald. Upon realizing he cannot intimidate them, Trevor forces the Protagonist to carry out several jobs for him in order to pay back the debt he feels they owe him, eventually retaining their services in order to set up a drug deal. Trevor's relationship with the GTA Online Protagonist is surprisingly civil as he likely sees them as someone who is similar to him: a lost soul willing to commit whatever crime, no matter how dirty, as long as they're adequately paid for their services.

Skills and Attributes

Because he is a former military aviation pilot, he is skilled in both combat and piloting aircraft like helicopters. In the mission Three's Company, Trevor was the one that flew the team to the skyscraper they needed to get their target out of. In the aftermath, as the team was pursued by law enforcement helicopters, he proved to be an able pilot under pressure.

Trevor is also the master of greed, ambition, and insanity (along with Michael and Franklin), and is seen in many GTA V screenshots performing many challenging (and some illegal) stunts. Some of those stunts include base jumping, jet-skiing, murdering, property destruction, arson, jumping out from moving vehicles and getting chased by the cops.

Wade also said that Trevor is "good with numbers", implying that he has good mathematical skills. This is confirmed during small talk with a bank executive during the Subtle approach to the final heist; upon being told the number of gold bricks they are stealing and the size of each one, Trevor rattles off the exact amount of gold they have before the executive can finish entering the above information into his calculator. Trevor also has an excellent perception and intuition, being the only one to figure out that the brick of coke Franklin and Lamar were buying from the Ballas at Grove Street was actually drywall.

He also proved to be a good strategist and planner. He alone pulled a successful heist on Merryweather Security Consulting, and he's been able to keep his relatively small organization peaking up in the drug and arms dealing against other bigger and more dangerous groups like the Aztecas, The Lost or the Marabunta Grande.

He also proved to be a powerful hand-to-hand combatant, usually knocking down people with a single punch in several cutscenes. He's strong enough to lift and throw people off ledges in several of his switch scenes.

Trevor's special ability is Invulnerability. While active, Trevor can take an excessive amount of damage without dying as well as a special melee attack that he can perform. By enhancing this skill, the player can increase its maximum storage capacity, which directly affects its duration. Trevor's Special skill lasts for 30 seconds when the Stat Bar for Special skill has been maxed out. While in the ability, he can survive hits from trains, Rhino tank cannon shots and being mauled by a mountain lion.