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Released in February 2009 as the first of GTA IV's two episodic expansions, The Lost and Damned swaps Niko Bellic for Johnny Klebitz, leader of the Liberty City chapter of The Lost MC (Motorcycle Club). The expansion runs ~22 hours of new content set during the same 2008 Liberty City timeline as Niko's main campaign, intersecting with Niko's story at several specific points.
Below: who Johnny is, what The Lost MC is, and where Lost and Damned fits in the GTA IV canon.
Johnny Klebitz — voiced by Scott Hill — is the long-serving vice president of The Lost MC's Liberty City chapter. The expansion opens with Johnny acting as interim president because the actual president, Billy Grey, is in prison. The campaign's central conflict is what happens when Billy comes back.
Johnny is a more morally compromised lead than Niko — pragmatic, dealing meth, navigating biker-club politics — but reads as the "honorable" figure compared to Billy's recklessness. Johnny's arc is trying to keep the club from imploding while Billy actively works to destroy it.
The Lost are an outlaw biker gang based in Acter (Alderney) with a clubhouse, a yard full of bikes, and a hostile rivalry with the Angels of Death MC. Key members:
The MC operates on classic outlaw-biker lines: democratic-internally, hostile-externally, with a strict "us vs them" worldview that drives most missions.
Johnny's arc spans three rough phases:
Lost and Damned explicitly intersects with the main GTA IV campaign at several points:
The cross-campaign reference structure is the first time Rockstar attempted multi-protagonist narrative in a single game world. The template matured into GTA V's three-character system five years later.
Lost and Damned added several mechanical elements:
Lost and Damned is bleaker than Niko's main campaign. Niko's IV is about disillusionment; Johnny's IV is about decline. The MC is dying through the campaign, and the ending leaves Johnny alive but with nothing left.
Johnny's arc continues into GTA V (2013), where he appears in the prologue as a Trevor Philips victim — a controversial cameo that prematurely ended the character. Many Lost and Damned fans consider Trevor's killing of Johnny in GTA V's opening to be one of Rockstar's most-criticised character decisions.
Lost and Damned shipped on Xbox 360 in February 2009 and was later bundled with the main GTA IV as GTA IV: The Complete Edition on PS3, Xbox 360, PC, and Steam. Currently available on Steam and most digital storefronts as part of the Complete Edition.
For the canonical Liberty City story, see GTA IV's Liberty City Story Primer. For the second expansion, see The Ballad of Gay Tony Explained.
