GTA 6 easter eggs and secrets
Verified means you can see it yourself in official footage at the timestamp we give. Everything else is a theory until Rockstar or the game confirms it.
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Verified in official material 26
GTA 6 easter egg: the Ocean View Hotel from Vice City returns in Trailer 1
Trailer 1 hides the Ocean View Hotel sign behind palm trees at 0:33, the building Tommy Vercetti used as his first Vice City safehouse
5 min read · 9 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: the Tom Petty tribute sticker hidden at the end of Trailer 1
A rainbow Petty sticker sits on a door in the closing seconds of Trailer 1, tying back to the Tom Petty song Rockstar chose for the reveal
5 min read · 4 sourcesGTA 6 trailer detail: the Florida Joker lookalike in the Trailer 1 news clip
A face-tattooed character in Trailer 1 mirrors Lawrence Sullivan, the viral Florida Joker, who publicly claimed the resemblance himself
5 min read · 8 sourcesGTA 6 trailer detail: the alligator walking into a store in Trailer 1
Trailer 1 shows CCTV-style footage of an alligator strolling into a shop, a direct nod to a genre of real Florida news clips
4 min read · 6 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: the NINE1NINE plane banner and Miami's real E11EVEN club
The seaplane banner over Vice Beach in Trailer 1 parodies Miami club E11EVEN so closely that the real club answered with its own banner
5 min read · 10 sourcesGTA 6 map secret: the Thrillbilly Mud Club and Florida's real mud parks
The muddy off-road party in Trailer 1 carries a Thrillbilly Mud Club logo, a parody of Florida's real mud bogging venues in Grassrivers
5 min read · 8 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: the Angstipan ad that promises to cure your emotions
Trailer 1 hides a fake pharmaceutical ad for Angstipan, a drug that claims to cure emotions, complete with absurd side-effect warnings
5 min read · 8 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: Patriot Beer and Pisswasser Nein return in Trailer 1
Two long-running Grand Theft Auto beer brands come back in Trailer 1, one redesigned and one with a new alcohol-free variant
5 min read · 6 sourcesGTA 6 easter eggs: every returning GTA brand spotted in Trailer 1
Weazel News, Sessanta Nove, Go Postal and Logger all reappear in Trailer 1, quietly tying Leonida to the same universe as GTA V
5 min read · 6 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: the Red Dead Online outlaw hiding on a shop door in Trailer 1
A sticker on the convenience store door in Trailer 1 matches Everett Morgan's Red Dead Online wanted poster, spotted by fans on Reddit
5 min read · 5 sourcesGTA 6 map secret: the Seven Mile Bridge Rockstar could not build in 2002
Trailer 1 shows a long causeway into the Leonida Keys, the Florida bridge Rockstar reportedly wanted in Vice City and had to cut
5 min read · 7 sourcesGTA 6 trailer details: the real viral Florida clips restaged in Trailer 1
The opening montage of Trailer 1 restages a string of genuine viral videos, from twerking on a moving car to a woman swinging two hammers
4 min read · 9 sourcesGTA 6 map secret: Miami's Kaseya Center rebuilt on the Vice City waterfront
The Miami Heat's downtown arena is recognisable in Trailer 1's skyline, one of several real Miami landmarks rebuilt for Vice City
5 min read · 8 sourcesGTA 6 map secret: the Gloriana license plates hiding a second state
Most cars in the trailers carry Leonida plates, but Gloriana and Liberty City plates also appear, hinting at a wider map or wider world
5 min read · 6 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: the money says United States of Paranoia
Grand Theft Auto VI banknotes replace the usual wording with United States of Paranoia, and fans read a hidden date in the serial numbers
5 min read · 7 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: Red Dead Redemption 2 presidents printed on GTA 6 money
Trailer 2 shows banknotes printed with Thaddeus Waxman and Franklin Hardin, two presidents named in Red Dead Redemption 2, at around 2:07
5 min read · 6 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: Jason's fixing some leaks line that opens Trailer 2
Trailer 2 starts with Jason on a roof saying he is fixing some leaks, read across the games press as a wink at the 2022 GTA 6 leak
5 min read · 8 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: the Phil's Ammu-Nation advert in Trailer 2
Trailer 2 plays a gun store commercial fronted by a mulleted man calling it Phil's Ammu-Nation, pointing straight back at Phil Cassidy
5 min read · 7 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: Tommy Vercetti's shirt on a wooden lizard in Trailer 2
A wall-mounted lizard behind the shop counter in Trailer 2 wears the exact palm-print shirt Tommy Vercetti wore in Vice City
5 min read · 7 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: Jason's V-Rock shirt and what it hints about the radio
Jason wears a V-Rock shirt in Trailer 2, reviving the Vice City rock station's logo, though no GTA 6 radio station is confirmed
5 min read · 7 sourcesGTA 6 trailer detail: Lucia's ankle monitor and where it goes
Lucia wears a court-ordered ankle monitor early in Trailer 2 and is shown without it later, a quiet marker of story progression
5 min read · 8 sourcesGTA 6 trailer detail: Jason's tattoo and his army background
Jason carries a tattoo read as an airborne insignia in Trailer 2, matching Rockstar's own description of his military and Keys past
5 min read · 9 sourcesGTA 6 map secret: the Vice City Metro train hidden in Trailer 2
An automated blue and grey metro train runs on elevated track in Trailer 2 at 0:45, modelled closely on Miami-Dade’s real Metrorail system
5 min read · 9 sourcesGTA 6 map secret: the mountain lion prowling Mount Kalaga National Park
Trailer 2 shows a big cat moving through Mount Kalaga National Park, the clearest sign yet of predator wildlife outside the wetlands
5 min read · 10 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: the Big Smoke Cigar Co shop in the Extended Look
A cigar shop passed during a chase in Rockstar's Extended Look carries a name lifted straight from San Andreas' most quoted character
4 min read · 5 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg: the Vice City FM advert on a phone box
An advert on a payphone in the Extended Look names Vice City FM, a station whose history runs back to the 3D-era Grand Theft Auto games
4 min read · 5 sourcesCommunity theories, not yet confirmed 6
GTA 6 easter egg theory: the keyhole tower from Vice City's G-Spotlight mission
A skyscraper with a rectangular hole in Trailer 1 looks like the building from Vice City's infamous G-Spotlight stunt, though it is unconfirmed
5 min read · 5 sourcesGTA 6 reference: where the name Leonida actually comes from
Leonida is Rockstar's Florida, and the most repeated reading of the name ties it to explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, though nothing is confirmed
5 min read · 6 sourcesGTA 6 easter egg theory: is that Michael De Santa's boat in Trailer 2?
A Marquis yacht sits beside Jason's house in Trailer 2, and fans think it matches the boat Michael lost in GTA V's Father/Son mission
5 min read · 5 sourcesGTA 6 reference: Port Gellhorn is probably named after a war correspondent
Community research ties Port Gellhorn to reporter Martha Gellhorn and to Panama City, Florida, though Rockstar has never explained the name
5 min read · 7 sourcesGTA 6 reference: Grassrivers and the book that named the Everglades
Leonida’s wetland region is widely read as a nod to Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ 1947 book The Everglades: River of Grass, though Rockstar is silent
4 min read · 6 sourcesGTA 6 map secret theory: is Dexter's Miami apartment block in the game?
A waterfront complex in the Extended Look resembles the real building used for Dexter's apartment, though Rockstar sources call it coincidence
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