Gat's 'head on' strategies typically involved massive amounts of bloodshed and extensive property damage. In doing so, he was aided by The Protagonist.
Gat was assigned to plot the downfall of the Vice Kings, one of the warring gangs in Stilwater. Realizing that the district was being torn apart by gang wars, he volunteered to join the 3rd Street Saints, a gang aiming to end these wars.
Johnny Gat was an inhabitant of the Saint's Row District of Stilwater.