Grand Theft Auto is screeching back into the Sunshine State, with the trailer for the gaming franchise’s new release featuring scenes ripped from real Florida headlines.
Eagle eyed viewers spotted classic famed “Florida Man” characters throughout the 90-second teaser, released Wednesday by developer Rockstar Games.
Scenes including monstrous alligators being pulled from pools, memorably tattooed defendants and women twerking on a car roof all mimic real news footage and clips which became memes from Florida, paying pixellated-homage to its distinctive blend of grime and glitz.
GTA 6 takes place in the fictional state of Leonida, with the kinetic, neon-drenched streets of Vice City representing Miami.
At one point, the game flashes to an image resembling the facially-tattooed “Florida Joker” Lawrence Sullivan, whose viral 2017 mugshot revealed a jarring resemblance to the Batman supervillain.
While the digital version was slightly different — with purple hair rather than Sullivan’s green dye job and differing tattoos — the man himself responded to his apparent cameo this week.
“GTA, we gotta talk,” Sullivan posted to TikTok Wednesday. “You know who they got inspired by. By me.”
In his most recent high profile bust, Sullivan was busted for waving a loaded Smith & Wesson handgun at passing motorists outside an apartment complex.
The trailer also recreated other indelible Sunshine State moments, including one shot of a woman gyrating atop a speeding car and a struggling reptile wrangler plucking an alligator from a residential pool.
Another vignette celebrates a Florida man who enjoyed watering his lawn au naturel.
Some social media posters mistakenly tied a trailer scene showing a woman wielding two hammers to Florida, but the original incident took place in Los Angeles.
The new GTA release — the first since 2013 — is one of most intensely anticipated video game releases in recent memory.
An avalanche of interest in the trailer smashed YouTube records.
After less than a full day, the clip had amassed more views than the teaser for GTA V totaled over the last 13 years.
Gamers won’t be be able to plunge back into the game just yet, as it is not set for release until 2025.