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Fernando Martinez is a supporting character of the Grand Theft Auto series.
After Lazlow, Fernando Martinez is the character with the most appearances in the game series.
He is voiced in all his appearances by Frank Chavez.
Biography[]
3D Universe[]
Fernando Martinez is a long-running radio host with a career on and off radio for almost 30 years. Although he speaks fluent English, he sometimes briefly speaks Spanish. At these moments, he reveals that he has a natural Puerto Rican accent.
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Fernando's radio career dates back to at least 1984, as the co-host of Emotion 98.3 during the events of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. He originally shared the show with Lionel Makepeace, who was often at odds with him and did not understand Fernando's poetic yet shallow monologues about passion and lus
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, he had proved popular enough that he hosted the show himself, possibly because his philosophy on passion fit much better in the era than Makepeace's deeper more sensitive views on the subject. Around this time Martinez also did a commercial for Medallion Man, which was advertised on radio stations throughout Vice City. At one point, he details how, during one of his visits to the Malibu Club, he happened upon a lonely woman and introduced her to an Englishman named Kent Paul, and thus realized that he had a "gift for bringing people together", possibly foreshadowing his future business venture.Sometime after 1986, he was fired from Emotion 98.3 and forced out of Vice City for unknown reasons.
In GTA San Andreas he then moved to San Andreas, where he became the improvised host of Lonely Hearts on WCTR after hijacking the show from then-current host Christy MacIntyre in 1992.
He resurfaces in GTA III, running a program in Liberty City called "Fernando's New Beginnings", where husbands relieve the stress of married life by getting a mistress. He is interviewed on Chatterbox FM by Lazlow. When asked about his ethnic background, he says he is "Latin" but later claims that he is from Upstate Liberty. Lazlow eventually gets fed up when he realizes "Fernando's New Beginnings" is nothing more than a brothel, and ends the interview by yelling "You're just a cheap pimp from Upstate, get out of my studio!". This "early installment" feature about Fernando not really being Latino was later retconned, and eventually he became explicitly stated as an immigrant from a Latin American country.
HD Universe[]
In Episodes from Liberty City In 2008, he resurfaces again in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City as the host of the Episodes' exclusive radio station Vice City FM in Liberty City. He admits that he has several children, is a registered sex offender not allowed within five miles of a school, and has a sexually transmitted disease.
In GTA V, Fernando is once again living in San Andreas, again for WCTR. He has his own program called The Fernando Show, where he is seemingly trying to give up his outdated and sexist womanizing ways and trying, though very frequently failing, to respect women and treat them as something more than just sex objects. During his interview with Sue Murry, he shows sexual attraction towards her (despite earlier implying that he is either married to or living with the mother of his children) and is unable to refrain from continuously hitting on her until eventually she becomes outraged and leaves the studio, accusing Fernando of being a "woman hater" due to his sexist remarks and behavior. In GTA V, Fernando reveals that he is actually an illegal immigrant that got to the United States of America by outrunning a speed boat, presumably referring to the country's Border Patrol.
He is one of the honored celebrities on the Vinewood Walk of Fame.
External Links[]
- Fernando Martinez on the Grand Theft Auto Wiki.
