GTA is a series that inspires a great number of emotions in its players. Coming from the same studio that created Lemmings way back when, you could say that their development style has changed a little. Over the 20 years since the original GTA came out, it has infuriated, exhilarated, and brought joy and catharsis to millions of players. Of course, this passion needs an outlet, and with the games getting bigger and bigger each time, there's no lack of options.  These outlets for players' passions range from the less salubrious - GTA Online trolls, I'm looking at you, to the more creative, like creating custom races and 100%ing the game. Then, you get the players whose love for the game mixes with frustration, giving us the amazing "GTA logic" memes. Others use memes to express a deep love or hatred for certain characters and missions in the games. The most relatable memes come from subjects you know a lot about, and, well, I'm sure a lot of our readers can all too easily relate to the GTA series. As one of the most popular games series of all time, they're probably the closest gaming comes to making it across the barrier into mainstream culture.

In this article, I want to showcase some of the best GTA memes that underline everything that's so right and bonkers, and wrong and infuriating about GTA. From notorious missions to an unlikely inspirational poster, and baffling examples of in-game logic, I'm sure you'll find something you empathize with here.

15 I Thought The Hippocratic Oath Prevented This!?

The emergency services in the GTA universe have some strange ideas about their work. The fire service, when you actually see them, appear to only ever extinguish burning cars, and more often than not, actually leave them to burn. Cops will attempt to kill you outright for anything more severe than shoplifting. But it may be the paramedics who have the strangest priorities. It's not unusual to see an ambulance hauling ass through a built up area, smashing into cars and sometimes people, to try to save some dude who crossed you. There's also their strange reaction to you stealing their ambulance, which makes them run for the hills ("he's got morphine, no!")

Mind, in GTA: San Andreas they used to try CPR on headless corpses, so maybe they're simply none too bright.

14 He Was In A Red Car, Not A Blue Car, Let Him Go!

Speaking of almost terminal stupidity amongst GTA's emergency services, this is one of the best examples. Maybe GTA is set in the Idiocracy universe, that'd explain a lot. Pay and Spray shops allow you to exchange some cash for the quickest respray in history and your freedom. No matter whether you have the combined force of the FBI, SWAT, Cops and US Military chasing you, they're all baffled by one car driving into a garage, and the exact same car, just in a slightly different hue, coming out the same door. What? Like come on now, that's the least you can do. If you want to fool your pursuers, you should at least have to put a little effort in: I want those rotating license plates from James Bond, if nothing else. In GTA, however, a lick of paint is all you need.

13 Better Than A Bunch Of Flowers

GTA IV's ladies proved oddly nonplussed by Niko's numerous crimes. You could run over a couple of people without them blinking an eye. I guess in Michelle's, or should I say, Karen's case, this could be potentially explained by her IAA connection. Seeing as how next time we see her she's threatening to attack an innocent man with a flashlight, it's safe to assume she's no stranger to violence herself. You would assume though, that she'd care about her date five-finger discounting her property, before most likely using it to commit some other manner of heinous crime. Maybe her taking a liking to Niko was more than that. Maybe it was true love. A strange, murderous, criminality-filled true love. Maybe she and Trevor was the new Bonnie and Clyde that we never knew we needed.

12 The Deepest Pockets, The Most Nonchalant Cops

GTA's ATF equivalent might just be the most lax government agency in history. While owning anything explosive in real life, like a grenade launcher, requires filing a boatload of paperwork with the ATF, in GTA IV you can quite happily walk around with Soviet anti-tank hardware spilling out of your capacious pockets. Does a cop ever ask to either see your paperwork, or simply say "F that!" and pump you full of shots? Nah, they'll happily leave you alone until you actually do something, with innocent until proven guilty apparently expanded to cover everything up to owning an ICBM, until you actually use said ordnance. Bump into their car, however? Oh, you better believe that's a paddlin'. And by a paddlin,' I mean one with .45 ACP to the dome.

11 A Bulletproof Escape Plan

Escaping wanted ratings varies considerably from game to game in the GTA franchise. In GTA IV, escaping was, in my opinion, tougher than it was in GTA V. Hiding from cops if you were within their huge zone of influence couldn't be done -- they'd track you down like bloodhounds. While the cops in GTA V are considerably more accurate and deadly with their firearms, the hide mechanic does lead to some bizarrely comical moments. Recently, I've been replaying GTA V, and stumbled into a situation almost exactly like the one above. As Michael, I'd murdered a couple of cops, as you do, and was fleeing a five-star wanted rating. Pulling out from under the chopper's view, I ended up hiding behind a pillar in a parking lot. Cops came swarming up around me like ants, before eventually deciding it must have been some kind of mass hallucination and calling off the search.

10 GTA Cops REALLY Value Their Squad Cars

In comparison to Michelle's lackadaisical approach earlier, GTA's cops REALLY care about their vehicles. Apparently, lesson one at the academy is "don't let anyone ding your car, if they do, make them regret it." While it's true that the blame does usually fall on the player's shoulders, thanks to our aforementioned lack of driving ability, that isn't always the case. There's nothing more frustrating than minding your own business (and maybe casually smashing into a few civilian cars,) before a cop car chasing a suspect slams into you. Move even slightly against their car, and BAM, you're now the world's most wanted man. You dared to scratch their paintwork, and now, you must die. I guess the Academy never taught community outreach in any of their classes.

9 Vigilantism Will Not Be Tolerated

While we're on the subject of intolerant GTA cops, let's talk about vigilantism. So, in GTA IV, you could quite happily get into a squad car and head out on your merry way taking down criminals. In GTA V, all that changed. Now, you come across cop chases and shootouts as random events. So, being the relatively respectable citizen that you are, you want to help the law out, right? And maybe pocket some drug dealers'/robbers' cash for yourself, but that's just an added bonus. Attempt to take down the perp in question, however, and what happens? The cops get all mad about it! Suddenly, there's been some weird switcheroo, and you're the most wanted man, just for gunning down someone before they did! You just can't help some people, I swear.

8 The Case Of The Cosmic Taxi Fare

In a world where money still can't buy you love, but can buy you a veritable armory of weapons, as well as some delectable cars, you want to save every penny you can. So, in this twisted logic, it makes sense to gun down that friendly cab driver and claim your money back, right? Except, when you do, you'll find that the largest portion of the cash has disappeared, leaving you with what are effectively nickels and dimes. What happens to the rest of the cash? Has the cab company somehow discovered teleportation, using it to ship fares back to the depot? Do taxis actually come equipped with the strongest safes known to mankind? I don't know what the world's coming to when taxi companies can't trust their customers enough to leave fares in their cabs. What's that? We're part of the problem? Oh, right.

7 The Quickest Route To Anything Is A Straight Line

You know, I almost feel sorry for the map creators in GTA sometimes. They put all this effort into creating realistic game worlds, with interesting streets and winding, challenging roads (Vinewood Hills, anyone?), and how do we repay them? By crashing through them like a bull with epilepsy, smashing through residential streets, with pedestrians simply becoming speedbumps. And then there are roads like the one in the picture. I mean, sure, you could admire Los Santos from an outlook above the city, or you could tally-ho your way over the cliff in an SUV to the soundtrack of Night Moves. I know which one is more exhilarating. Sorry designers, if anything, your worlds provide too much room for malicious mischief, but when we do occasionally notice the detail, we appreciate it. Promise.

6 Smoke, If I Hear You Say That One More Time...

This one brought back some bad memories. There I was, 12-year-old me, trying to rush through as much of the rental copy of GTA: San Andreas as I could before it had to go back to Blockbuster, and then I hit this mission. Wrong Side Of The Tracks expected you to chase down a train so that Big Smoke could, well, smoke the Vagos guys who were indulging in some train surfing. Attempting to position your bike so that the finnicky and apparently blind Big Smoke would actually be able to hit them, while dodging the obstacles coming your way was absolutely one of the lowest points in GTA history. If you're wondering, I never did get past it before the rental copy had to go back.

5 Trevor's WTF Moments

GTA V's switch mechanic gave us the neat ability of being able to see what the character's got up to them when we weren't playing them. You'd often see Franklin stumbling out of a strip club or just idling around town, Michael usually wasting his time drinking in front of the TV, and then there's Trevor. Oh, dear Trevor. Whether it's waking up in a dress in the middle of the desert, waking up from a hangover on a railway line in nothing but a pair of tighty-whities, or in a three-star cop chase with the five-o, you never knew what you were going to get. Trevor's life is most certainly like a box of chocolates. Most likely a box of chocolates containing human flesh, though.

4 The Cops With The Best Hearing In The World

Sometimes in GTA, there are rare occasions where you actually manage to get away with a crime, like stealing a car or even, sometimes, murder. Other times, however, the cops' perceptiveness is belied by their otherwise apathetic approach. As this meme notes, you can do everything you can to make this a clean hit. You can take the Anton Chigurgh approach of leaving no witnesses and being extremely judicious with your hit, but you will still get noticed by the cops. My question to the cops of GTA is just, how? Does Yuri from Red Alert 2 come in and give all of you psychic training? Do the LSPD have some kind of sophisticated crime-tracking satellite system (maybe Ron is on to something)? Either way, sometimes, no matter how well y0u prepare, there's no escaping the long arm of the law.

3 STAY WITHIN CITY LIMITS, CITIZEN

When you're presented with world's as large and diverse (GTA IV not withstanding) as GTA's, the first thing you want to do is see as much of it as you can. Unfortunately, in the earlier GTA games, that's just straight-up not possible. Dare to travel beyond the limits that the world has set for you in the early game, and you'll find a dizzying array of cops, FIB, and SWAT on your tail. It's strangely reminiscent of an old protest song lyric "you are living in the free world, in the free world you must stay." It was so refreshing to see Rockstar actually ditch this mechanic in GTA V, giving you free rein to explore the lovingly crafted world in whichever way you see fit, without bringing the wrath of God down upon yourself in the process.

2 "HEY COUSIN, LET'S GO BOWLING!"

You know those needy friends? I think everyone has them, you make plans to do something and then they foist themselves into them. Either that, or they make it so you have to drop your original plans and do something with them. It's a problem Niko knows only too well, as apparently a former soldier from the Balkans is the toast of the town, with everyone wanting to do something with him at all times. No one, however, is more annoying than his cousin, Roman. While sometimes he can be a lovable goof, other times, he can be the most irritating man in history, constantly calling you up at inopportune times in a desperate bid to make you go do something with him. Someone should send him on a speaking course, he might make some new friends then.

1 The Wise Words Of Trevor Phillips

Trevor Phillips could never be called a man of few words. In between incoherent shouts of rage, blunt screams of anger, and incoherent rage at anyone who calls him either Canadian or dare use the insult "mother$#%" around him, he's not a quiet soul. He'd seem a pretty unlikely source of inspiration for an inspirational poster, but this meme proves inspiration can come in many forms. If they wanted another one, might I suggest a picture of an SUV storming across the desert, with the caption "the apex predator in action"? Trevor, as it turns out, may have had a great career as an advertising exec, if meth, armed robbery, cannibalism, countless random murders, and a seemingly dead best friend hadn't got in the way.