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Lance Vance
Lance artwork
Appearances: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Also Known As: Quentin, Q
Date of Birth: unknown
Date of Death: 1986, Vice City
Home: Vice City
Nationality: American
Family: Janet Vance (mother)
Michael Vance (father)
Victor Vance (brother)
Pete Vance (brother)
Aunt Enid (aunt)
Main Affiliation: Vance Crime Family (1984-1986)
Mendez Cartel (1984)
Ricardo Diaz (1984-1986)
Tommy Vercetti (1986)
Bryan Forbes (1984)
Earnest Kelly (1986)
Vehicle(s): White Infernus
Black and Yellow Maverick
Businesses: Cocaine Trade
Voiced by: Philip Michael Thomas

Lance Vance (1954-1986) is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series, who becomes the partner-in-crime of protagonist Tommy Vercetti, and serves as the antagonist in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. He works in the cocaine trade as a cocaine dealer with his older brother Victor Vance in the events of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, serving as supporting character in the game.

Background

Early Life

Lance was born to a white mother named Janet Vance, and his father Michael Vance, who immigrated from the Dominican Republic to Vice City, Florida. Him and his two brothers, Victor and Pete, grew up in poverty while living in the Dominican Republic, then moving to Vice City. Because their mother had a drug addiction, they were raised by Aunt Enid, who Lance sees her as a sloe maternal figure. Lance was often be teased about his name. While working with Ricardo Diaz, he somewhat gets teased by Tommy when he reveals to him that his last name is "Vance", which Lance then replies that "he's had enough of that at school". According to Victor, he was kicked out of the Boy Scouts in his youth. Victor always treated him like a little kid and always got him into trouble. These patterns still continued into their adult lives.

Lance is also shown to be a trained helicopter pilot, seen in both games piloting one for different occasions.

1984

Before the events of Vice City, Lance is first mentioned by Victor telling him that their brother, Pete, is sick with asthma.

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Lance Vance in GTA Vice City Stories

Lance ushers Victor into drug trafficking. They begin to work for a guy named Bryan Forbes, who is an undercover cop of the VCPD in which they take him hostage.

Lance suggests stealing a large shipment of drugs from a guy named Jerry Martinez. After Victor calls Jerry just to mock him, they discover that he was allied with the Mendez Brothers.

Lance eventually becomes addicted to his own cocaine, as well as Victor's girlfriend Louise Cassidy-Williams, who, along with Lance himself, hide their habit from Victor. Lance often blamed the missing drugs on their addicted mother or the biker gang. Victor finds Lance with Victor's girlfriend and accuses them of an affair, but they respond that they were just getting high as friends and call him judgmental (a criticism Victor often receives.)

When Louise gets kidnapped and killed by the Mendez brothers, Lance shows little feelings and tells Victor that family is more important. He only gets involved in the Mendez war after his car gets destroyed. Shortly after, Lance arrives at the Mendez penthouse to backup Victor, but Lance arrives so late that the shootout is already over.

1986

In the events of Vice City, Lance is seen arriving, along with his brother Victor, at a drug deal in a helicopter. Later on in the game, he is seen again after Tommy kills a local chef in an alleyway. He approaches Tommy for the first time, scolding him for silencing their main lead. Thinking that Lance is there to fight him, Lance comes out telling him that he is there to help him obtain their lost merchandise, before being chased down the alley way by three more chefs. They make their way back to Tommy's hotel in Lance's car. Later on, he goes along with Tommy to help provide protection for a local drug deal between Ricardo Diaz and the Cubans.

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Lance as he appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

While Tommy works for Diaz, he joins in under another name, Quentin Vance, because the Vance Crime Family are enemies of Diaz's business empire. He helps Tommy retrieve Diaz's money from the Streetwannabes and purchase a shipment of drugs from another dealer.

Later on, he tries to take out Diaz himself, but is captured during the process and taken hostage by Diaz's men, who take him to the Junkyard to be tortured. Tommy rescues him and the two seek revenge, killing Diaz in his mansion. Later on, he and Tommy pose as cops to blow up a business in the mall, after the bombs the first time failed to detonate. He frequently contacts Tommy, feeling "abandoned" or left out of bigger projects that Vercetti is planning. Tommy dismisses these claims, telling him to take a vacation instead.

At some point in the game, he is also seen working with Earnest Kelly, showing up at the Print Works when Tommy is retrieving counterfeiting plates from a local syndicate.

The last time he is seen in the game is during the final mission. Lance contacts Tommy about Sonny Forelli, who is coming down to Vice City to see the business and claim his money after Tommy "capped" Sonny's men for taxing him. To make it final, Tommy decides to give Sonny twenty million of counterfeit cash that he printed at his print shop and hand it over to Forelli. However, Lance steps in telling Sonny that the money Tommy just gave him was fake and that the real cash was upstairs in the safe, betraying Tommy and claiming his motive do so as "business" related. Shortly afterword, a gun battle erupts between the two on the roof of the mansion, resulting in Lance being killed by Tommy.

VCBI Record

The Vice City Bureau of Investigation has a file on Vance:

  • Recently arrived in town with his brother.
  • Asks a lot of questions.
  • Trained helicopter pilot.
  • Believed to be in narcotics trade.
  • Heard mouthing off in a lot of nightclubs.
  • Believed to get aggressive or needy when he drinks. Possibly emotionally insecure.

Trivia

  • Philip Michael Thomas voiced Lance Vance. He stared as Ricardo Tubbs in the 1980s television-series Miami-Vice.
  • In the PC World article, Lance is listed as #17 out of 47 "most diabolical videogame villain's of all time."
  • In early sketches of Lance, he was either named "Eddie" or "The Buddy."
  • He is one of the three antagonists whose betrayal and death are in the same mission. (the other antagonists are Wu Lee and Vinnie.)

Mission Appearances

GTA Vice City

GTA Vice City Stories

  • Jive Drive
  • The Audition (Boss)
  • Money for Nothing
  • Caught as an Act (Boss)
  • Leap and Bound (Boss)
  • The Bum Deal
  • Snitch Hitch (Boss)
  • Blitzkrieg (Boss)
  • Turn On, Tune In, Bug Out (Boss)
  • From Zero to Hero (Boss)
  • Brawn of the Dead (Boss)
  • Taking the Fall (Boss)
  • Blitzkrieg Strikes Again (Boss)
  • Lost and Found (Boss)
  • White Lies (Boss)
  • Where it Hurts Most (Boss)
  • The Mugshot Longshot
  • Burning Bridges
  • Domo Arigato Domestoboto
  • Light My Pyre (Boss)
  • Last Stand

Murders Commited

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