Roman Bellic

Roman Bellic is the deuteragonist from the Grand Theft Auto IV game.

Roman was born in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and moved to Liberty City in 1998, aged twenty-one. He later claims to be living the "American Dream" and that he has two women, four hot tubs and fifteen sports cars. This encourages Niko to join him in America, where Niko discovers that Roman lied about living in paradise; his cousin is actually the owner of a small, gritty taxi firm, a small, roachinfested apartment in Broker, and has large gambling debts, owed to the Albanians and Vladimir Glebov. Roman later marries Mallorie Bardas. He is the nephew of Milica Bellic.

Appearance
Roman has 3 outfits:
 * A black and white tracksuit top with olive trousers and bowling shoes.
 * A black shirt with square and circle patterns.
 * A black suit with a bordeaux untucked dress shirt.

Personality
Roman mainly appears to be concerned more about making money, possibly being more desperate to prosper than any of the other characters, which has led him building a bad reputation in the city for his gambling addiction, of which he is constantly reminded by Niko. Despite his love of money and his problems, he cares a lot about his friends and family, and is sometimes annoyed at Niko's affiliation with organized crime. Out of all the characters, Roman appears to be the least interested in organized crime, as he only wishes to earn money and live the "American Dream."

Roman understands that Niko is unable to find regular work, and does not trouble him about his life as a criminal, but instead tells him to be careful, as some of the crimes Niko commits (racketeering, armed robbery, car thefts, assassinations, delivering drugs, etc), could get Niko an extremely long jail sentence.

Trivia

 * Roman drives a black taxi named Roman's Taxi from his depot, which is a custom Esperanto. After getting the Middle Park East penthouse, they are replaced with Cavalcades and cannot be gained again.
 * If Revenge is chosen and the player takes him to a club in a drinking activity, Roman might say: "I would have sealed the deal there if I didn't have to see Mallorie later!". This makes it clear that Roman still has desires for other women, but will stay loyal to Mallorie.
 * If Deal is chosen, Roman's phone number will remain on Niko's cell phone until getting a call from Kate.
 * He goes to Maisonette 9 with Brucie Kibbutz regularly and is seen in The Ballad of Gay Tony, dancing in the club. He briefly converses with Luis Lopez.
 * Roman has forgotten some of his native language during his ten-year stay in America. This can be seen in The Cousins Bellic, as Niko greets him in Serbian and Roman doesn't understand, responding with  'What?' , and randomly saying  'Cabbages?' He also mentions this himself that he has forgotten his native language a little.
 * Roman's favorite radio station is apparently The Vibe 98.8 as he will respond positively when the radio station is turned on.
 * Like most characters in the game, Roman will don a unique helmet when riding alongside Niko on a motorbike. His helmet is white, with two horizontal green stripes along the temples.
 * Roman is one of only two characters to interact with the three protagonists. (the other one being Isaac Roth) He helps Niko throughout the story, he gets kidnapped by Johnny, and briefly meets with Luis.
 * From It's Your Call onwards, his voicemail will say, "Ladies, this is Roman Bellic, but I guess you already know that. Leave a message". Although Mallorie's voicemail will change later in the game to reference her engagement, Roman's will not.
 * When bringing Roman home from an activity, if the player parks in the marker so that the passenger side door is blocked, Roman will punch Niko and say a line like "This is mine!" and switch to the driver's seat for a few moments before getting out of the car and disappearing as usual.
 * If he is picked up on a friend activity in a helicopter, he will say "Niko, you are really stepping up in the world! Let's go."
 * Roman's like percentage is already at 50% in The Cousins Bellic. This is possibly due to the fact that he and Niko are relatives.


 * The Guinness World Records 2012 Gaming Edition incorrectly states that Roman is Niko's brother.
 * In GTA V, it is possible to see Niko's Lifeinvader page on Jimmy's laptop; Roman is listed under Niko's family.
 * If watched closely, Niko seems to have written Happy Birthday Roman! on his wall.
 * Also in GTA V, Tavell Clinton mentions Roman's cab depot by name on Bleeterand calls it the "worst cab company ever". However, it is unknown whether Roman is still alive or whether his cab depot kept his name after his death.
 * In addition, Rockstar stated that Roman's fate is completely up to the player.
 * A certain hidden underwater hatch in GTA V produces a series of morse code signals. The community of gtaforums.com translated it, and it produced the sentence: "Hey, you never call. How do you fancy we go bowling?", an obvious reference to the bowling meme of GTA IV.
 * During one of the fares for Downtown Cab Co, Franklin has to bring a man down to the docks to deal with some bikers. They will be standing next to two Albany Emperors with customised number plates, one reading "ROMANB" and the other one 'NIKOB' (Niko Bellic).
 * Roman has appeared in every game in the HD Universe in some way. In GTA IV he was the deuteragonistto his cousin Niko Bellic, in TLAD he was kidnapped by Johnny Klebitz, in TBoGT he interacted with Luis Lopez in Maisonette 9, in GTA Chinatown Wars his cab depot was seen, rebuilt, and in GTA V the player can see his Lifeinvader account on Jimmy's laptop, as well as hearing about his cab company from Tavell Clinton's LifeInvader page.
 * Roman is one of the three deutaragonists that are related to the protagonist, the other two being Sweet Johnson and Lance Vance.
 * Roman's voice actor, Jason Zumwalt, is heard on one of the radio stations in Saints Row 2, in which he narrates an ad for "Ship It," a boat dealership. He uses, quite nearly, the same accent with his narration as he does with Roman. Coincidentally, the name of the narrator is Vlad, the same as the first antagonist in Grand Theft Auto IV.
 * In Tom Clancy's The Division, the player can find a purple bowling ball with "cousin" written on it. This is an obvious reference to Roman calling Niko to go bowling.