Wealthy Yacht Owner: The last mission of the main story of the first game begins with him inviting Playa to his private yacht for a meeting.Walking Spoiler: Outside of the radio, he only physically appears once at the finale where he's swiftly blown up, but his appearance establishes him as the Big Bad and sets the start of 2 into motion.In the second game, he's still praised as a victim of the gang violence that plagued Stilwater and has several memorial statues dedicated to him. Villain with Good Publicity: Hughes' posters can be seen all over Stilwater, is backed by the (equally as corrupt) Chief Monroe and Ben King, has a monument dedicated to him downtown, and his campaign is funded by Rollerz's mastermind William Sharp.

Smug Snake: For all his cunning scheming, ultimately he never expected to be killed by a yacht bomb of all things.Sleazy Politician: He's backed by gang enforcers and a corrupt police chief and orchestrates the death of Mayor Winslow to make sure he wins the election.

Scare Campaign: By using the Saints to do his dirty work.Salt the Earth: He explicitly calls his Evil Plan for the Saints Row district this.Instead, he plans to pin Stilwater's gang violence on the Saints as an excuse to demolish the district. After this inevitably leads to Monroe's death, he meets the Playa under the pretense of having the Saints pardoned for their crimes and Julius released. Manipulative Bastard: He orders Chief Monroe to arrest Julius in order to use the Playa for his dirty work.Kill the Poor: His Evil Plan is to use the Saints' responsibility for Stilwater's gang warfare to justify demolishing the district of Saint's Row.His plan all along was to use the Saints to get his redevelopment project for Saints Row funding. Greater-Scope Villain: Of the first game.Evil Sounds Deep: Especially since he's voiced by Clancy Brown.for me to be a winner, I have to level your neighborhood, and salt the earth. At the end of the day, you're either a winner, or a loser. Race, money, gender, none of this matters. Hughes: As you get older, you quickly learn there are only two types of people in this world. Equal-Opportunity Evil: This line basically sums up his Hidden Depths, both profound and rotten:.And while the Playa survives, Hughes doesn't. Death by Irony: Blown up on the very same boat he intended to kill the Playa on.Doing so, he would use the Saints' responsibility for most of the crime in Stilwater to justify salting the entire Saint's Row district in the hopes of completely wiping out gang violence. The Chessmaster: After the Saints had wiped every gang in the city, Hughes had Marshall Winslow killed by the Playa so he could win the mayoral election.Bald of Evil: He's a corrupt politician with male pattern baldness.Julius decides between the Playa and Hughes, he'd rather just blow them both up with the bomb he installed in the yacht.

Asshole Victim: Hughes tries to have the Playa shot to death by his bodyguards.

Even when he has his goons pull guns on Playa with the intent to kill him where he stands he doesn't drop the polite tone and promises that he'll be thanked in his acceptance speech for doing his dirty work.

Affably Evil: When he finally shows up, he acts friendly to the main character and even offers him a glass of expensive champagne while going over his plans.

Appearances: Saints RowAn alderman and mayoral candidate running for mayor, and the main antagonist in the final part of Saints Row.

Saints row character