Jacket (real name unknown) is a playable character in Hotline Miami and a side character in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. He also appears as a playable character in Payday 2. Jacket is the protagonist of Hotline Miami and the playable character for most of the game. His name started out as a nickname by players, but then Dennis started calling him Jacket in various interviews. Over the course of the game, the protagonist dons various animal masks, leading to other fan nicknames, and performs a number of brutal assassinations in response to cryptic messages left on his answering machine.