CharacterMinor characters
Dick Tanner
Bank robber hiding behind a DBP Security guard job, one of the targets Tommy kills on Ocean Drive in the Autocide assassination job.
- Member of
Patrol Invest Group- Occupation
- DBP Security
Background
Dick Tanner is one of six members of a European gang planning to rob a bank in Vice City. While he waits for the job, he hides in plain sight as a security guard for DBP Security, wearing a Patrol Invest Group uniform.
Events of GTA Vice City
- Dick Tanner appears only in Autocide, Mr. Black's third pay phone mission.
- Mr. Black wants the whole crew dead before they can carry out the robbery, and Tommy Vercetti hunts them down one by one.
- Tanner is the second target on the list. Tommy finds him on Ocean Drive in Ocean Beach, still in his guard disguise, and kills him.
Relationships
- The European gang: his crew, which also includes Mike Griffin, Marcus Hammond, Franco Carter, Nick Kong and Charlie Dilson, all killed in the same mission.
- Patrol Invest Group and DBP Security: his cover employers.
Trivia
- His surname matches John Tanner, the hero of the Driver series. The makers of Driver later answered with a character named Timmy Vermicelli, a nod to Tommy Vercetti.
- His full name is also one of the game's many crude jokes.
