Theory: The Ammu-Nation pitchman in Trailer 2 is Phil Cassidy

The claimUnconfirmed

The Ammu-Nation TV ad at about 2:09 to 2:13 of Trailer 2 stars a long-haired, bearded man in a tank top, waving guns at the camera. Several easter-egg roundups suggested this is Phil Cassidy, the army veteran and arms dealer from GTA III, Vice City and the Stories games. One went as far as saying he appears "missing arm and all".

How it holds upUnconfirmed

Phil fits the job, since he's a gun-mad veteran who sells weapons. But when we checked the frames on Rockstar's official Trailer 2 page, the pitchman clearly uses both arms, gripping a machine gun with two hands. Phil lost an arm during Vice City's story and was one-armed from then on in series chronology. The look is generic loud salesman. We'd call this a fun idea that the trailer doesn't support.

More easter eggs

• Theory: The face on Uncle Jack's door is Red Dead's Everett MorganFans matched the moustached face sticker on the liquor store door in Trailer 1 to the wanted poster of Everett Morgan, a Red Dead Online bounty. The resemblance is real, but nothing confirms it.
• Theory: The Vintage Vice City Pack may echo ScarfaceRockstar's copy for Lucia's Vintage Vice City outfit uses wording associated with Scarface's blimp scene. It may be an allusion, but Rockstar has not confirmed the reference.
• Theory: Trailer 1's social clips recreate specific viral Florida videosThe phone-video montage in Trailer 1, with a gator walking into a store, a gator at a pool party and a man in a thong watering his lawn, looks like it was lifted from real viral Florida clips. How exact the matches are is debated.
• Theory: Trailer 2's Keys bar is based on Key Largo's Caribbean ClubJason and Lucia's dockside bar in Trailer 2 has a weathered "Hurricane Roxy" sign, and some fans link the bar to Key Largo's Caribbean Club, known for its tie to the 1948 hurricane film Key Largo.
• "Channel the Original Kingpin": a weapon skin based on Tommy Vercetti's shirtThe Vintage Vice City Pack includes a tropical weapon pattern that Rockstar openly describes as inspired by Tommy Vercetti's palm tree button-up.
• A "Petty Forever" sticker on the liquor store doorDuring Trailer 1's closing robbery, the door of Uncle Jack's Liquors carries a rainbow "Petty Forever" sticker, a nod to Tom Petty, whose "Love Is a Long Road" scores the trailer.