Chronicles of Conflict (Darth Wiki)/Deceased and Other Characters

Infernal Echelon
A cloaked Cyborg with a mysterious agenda who is the Big Bad. "Diana: "For someone who believes everything is pointless, you sure put a lot of effort into it.""
 * Arm Cannon: His arm is Gatling Good and also acts as a flamethrower.
 * Bad Boss: He often has Gideon threaten minions that question or defy him.
 * Batman Gambit: He is very good at these.
 * Big Bad
 * Black Cloak
 * Bomb Throwing Anarchist
 * Chaotic Selfish: Is perfectly willing to manipulate and work with anyone to further his own agenda, whatever that may be.
 * The Chessmaster: He frequently appears to take advantage of important events. He is also C.R.U.S.H.'s main planner.
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
 * Clock King: He has tendencies of this as he frequently uses precise timing in his plans.
 * Co-Dragons: With Marwan.
 * Cyborg: A Steampunk cyborg.
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy: He is savvy at creating Batman Gambits that take advantage of the party's Chronic Hero Syndrome.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dragon-in-Chief: He appears in a partner role with Zachary and then frequently appears with  in a subordinate role, but it's quite clear who's the greater threat.
 * Dragon with an Agenda: While  wants to provoke a world war out of well intended extremism, Infernal Echelon just wants to further his own agenda. Whatever that may be. He also ultimatly planned to
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Gatling Good: His Arm Cannon
 * The Heavy: Most of the party's actions consists of reacting to his actions.
 * Hidden Agenda Villain: His actions are so mysterious and seemingly random that at times it appears that he himself has little idea what his agenda is at times
 * Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: He main method of extracting information.
 * Man Behind the Man:
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Manipulative Bastard: He skilled at manipulating people to further his own agenda, usually by appealing to their greed and desires.
 * Must Have Caffeine: His drink of choice. He mainly drinks cheap and quick-to-make instant coffee and likes his coffee heavily sweetened with milk, sugar, and cream.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: He frequently gives short speechs on how existance is pointless and how Humans Are Bastards. Diana lampshades the hypocrisy of his nihilism:
 * Manipulative Bastard: He skilled at manipulating people to further his own agenda, usually by appealing to their greed and desires.
 * Must Have Caffeine: His drink of choice. He mainly drinks cheap and quick-to-make instant coffee and likes his coffee heavily sweetened with milk, sugar, and cream.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: He frequently gives short speechs on how existance is pointless and how Humans Are Bastards. Diana lampshades the hypocrisy of his nihilism:


 * Omnicidal Maniac: He  agenda aimed at destroying the world.
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Psycho for Hire: While more restrained than Gideon, he does relish the deaths of those he kills.
 * Recurring Boss: He is fought several times throughout the game which usually ends with him fleeing or getting "killed". Several characters even lampshade this
 * Smoking Is Cool
 * Staying Alive: his boss battles frequently have him being "killed" in over-the-top ways (falling off skyscrapers and cliffs, caught in a collapsing building, blown up, etc.), but he always reappears Not Quite Dead. The reason for this immortality? As a Cyborg he is frequently repaired by
 * Sweet Tooth: He likes his coffee "drowned in sugar, milk, and cream".
 * The Trickster
 * Xanatos Gambit: He pulls these occasionally. Most notable is that after every boss battle with him, it is revealed that he was merely delaying the party while his true goal was being accomplished so victory or defeat in the boss battle is irrelevant to him.
 * Xanatos Speed Chess: He's good at this. When  this trait causes Cielo to suspect that there may be someone behind Infernal Echelon since   may have been a Clock King Guile Hero who was capable at short-term Batman Gambits, but was never that skilled at long term strategies.

Gideon
""If I may formally introduce myself, I'm the dude who's gonna slaughter all ya suckas!""

The Big Bad's Ax Crazy primary agent " : "You killed my parents!"
 * Ax Crazy: Oh yeah.
 * Bad Boss: He's prone to killing minions.
 * Badass Longcoat: He eventually adopts a white duster that looks just like Cielo's default black one.
 * Badass Long Hair: Until he cuts it.
 * Battle Butler: He tries to be this and even dresses like a tattered butler except that he's great at the first half, not so hot at the last half (it takes him 24 tries to make a cup of instant coffee).
 * Betrayal Insurance:
 * Big Eater
 * Bishonen
 * Blood Knight: He loves violence.
 * Blood Lust: His favorite drink is seltzer mixed with human blood.
 * The Brute
 * Card-Carrying Villain: He is perfectly willing to identify himself as evil.
 * Chainsaw Good
 * Deadpan Snarker: He combines sarcasm with Sophisticated As Hell Ax Crazy statments
 * Dissonant Laughter
 * The Dragon: To Infernal Echelon
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Unlike Cielo, Gideon doesn't like torturing people, but that's only because he sees torture as "boring". Fridge Horror ensues when you realize this means that
 * Fighting with Chucks
 * Foe Yay: He has a... thing for Cielo
 * Green-Eyed Monster: He is actually jealous that
 * Has Three Daddies: He was raised by  Infernal Echelon.
 * Impossibly Cool Weapon: His weapon of choice being a pair of chainsaw-katanas attached by a chain and wielded like nunchaku.
 * In Love with Your Carnage: He develops an obession with Cielo's sadistic methods.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * The Klutz: He is shown to be inept and clumsy at many everyday tasks.
 * Lawful Evil: Type 3, He has Undying Loyalty to the Big Bad and happily follows his orders to kill and destroy anything the Big Bad tells him to.
 * Leeroy Jenkins: He is frequently chastised and even restrained by Phoneix for this.
 * Loves the Sound of Screaming
 * Several characters lampshade this and Cielo firmly denies this every time.
 * Meaningful Name: His name is Hebrew for "destroyer".
 * Not So Different: He pulls this alot, but they are  after all.
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Psycho Supporter: He fully supports the Big Bad's schemes.
 * Purple Eyes: He is
 * Recurring Boss: He is fought several times throughout the game which usually ends with him fleeing or getting "killed". Several characters even lampshade this.
 * Sarcastic Devotee: He's this to Infernal Echelon.
 * Self-Made Orphan
 * Purple Eyes: He is
 * Recurring Boss: He is fought several times throughout the game which usually ends with him fleeing or getting "killed". Several characters even lampshade this.
 * Sarcastic Devotee: He's this to Infernal Echelon.
 * Self-Made Orphan

Gideon: "Don't you mean I killed our parents?""

"Gideon: "If you will excuse my brashness, I'm gonna kill you all so hard you'll all die to death!""
 * Shadow Archetype: He is essentially what Cielo would have become if he completely gave in to his appetite for violence
 * : He wants to become this with Cielo.
 * Slasher Smile: He frequently does this.
 * Sophisticated As Hell: Due to hanging around  for so long Gideon picked up some of his elegance, but it frequently devolves into Ax Crazy statements:


 * Stalker with a Crush: Gideon is obssessed with Cielo to the point of making his appearence more and more like Cielo's with each appearence.
 * Tyke Bomb: Raised since birth to be a agent of destruction.
 * Undying Loyalty: He is fiercely loyal to the  Big Bad.
 * We Can Kill Together: He frequently offers this to Cielo. At first it's jokingly, but it gets more serious each time he offers. The final time he offers this
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He pulls a this on
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He pulls a this on

Marwan
A former colonel who is now the field commander of C.R.U.S.H.
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Badass Nickname: "The Desert Phantom" for his tactically brilliant hit-and-run infantry desert tactics in the desert.
 * Berserk Button: Do not call him a "Qugger" (the slur for people from Quracistan).
 * Colonel Badass
 * The Dragon: To
 * Dual-Wielding/Guns Akimbo: See Gun Blade below
 * Gun Blade: he wieldes a pair of sawed-down lever action shotguns with blades attached beneath the barrels.
 * Humongous Mecha: He is a formidable mecha pilot.
 * I Control My Minions Through...: Authority, Respect, and Revenge.
 * The Leader: Type II
 * Mook Lieutenant
 * Noble Demon
 * The Remnant: He leads the members of C.R.U.S.H. who were former members of the Quracistan Dominion military.
 * Sergeant Rock: Acts like a Drill Sergeant Nasty towards his men, but he won't send his men into pointlessly suicidal charges and his men ultimatly respect him.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Gyros
 * Worthy Opponent

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Samuel Bauer
An elite covert agent for the Preparation Agency for Tactical Response, Intelligence, and Other Tactics who was Cielo's first combat mentor and godfather. He's currently deceased before the events of the game and may feature in a spin-off prequel.
 * And a Diet Coke: Subverted and lampshaded, Samuel orders a large amount of sweets, Cielo sarcastically asks if he's going to have a diet cola with all that and Samuel responds "Hell no".
 * Ax Crazy: For more details, see Psycho for Hire below.
 * Batman Gambit: One of the reasons he was one of the best "gloves" in the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. is his skill at exploiting a target's patterns.
 * Big Eater: Justified, On weekdays, Samuel restricts himself to Training From Hell and a strict and bland low-fat diet, but on weekends he pigs out on ice cream, cheesecake, chocolate chip cookies, and yogurt.
 * Broken Pedestal: He trained and mentored Cielo when the latter was starting out in the military, but it is revealed that he became a corrupt Rogue Agent for hire.
 * Cartwright Curse: He mentions that he has had over a dozen lovers who all either got Stuffed Into the Fridge or become Ax Crazy Yanderes (in fact, Cielo's first kill is a Yandere ex-girlfriend of Samuel's who became a leader of a terrorist cell just to spite him). Eventually, he wised up and became a...
 * Celibate Hero
 * Character Alignment: He used to be a Lawful Neutral, but eventually became Chaotic Selfish.
 * Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: This is the reason why
 * Clock King: He had tendencies of this, memorizing the schedules of targets and those around the target.
 * Code Name: His P.A.T.R.I.O.T. callsign is Echelon
 * Cynical Mentor: To Cielo
 * Deadpan Snarker: He has a sarcastic sense of Black Humor.
 * Expy: of Sam Fisher, Naked Snake, and Jack Bauer.
 * Fallen Hero
 * Going Postal: His main pleasure of his job was the savoring of assassinations, but when P.A.T.R.I.O.T. stopped doing that, he felt that his country betrayed him and he wanted to see the Republic burn.
 * Guile Hero
 * Gun and Sword: He usually carries a silenced pistol and a combat knife at the same time, in particular the knife held in reverse alongside the pistol in a two-handed grip that can easily separate, a la Naked Snake
 * He Who Fights Monsters: He was once an elite agent for the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. who's operations mostly consisted of counter-terrorism. Later, he made a Face Heel Turn into a Rogue Agent-for-hire who's contracts mostly consisted of terrorism-for-hire.
 * Hollywood Silencer: His main weapon was a silenced pistol (based on the Real Life M1911 pistol)
 * Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: His last name. He was also the one who trained Cielo in this.
 * Knight in Jaded Armor: Samuel tried to be this before he finally just gave up and went rogue.
 * Married to the Job
 * Must Have Caffeine: He drank plenty of coffee to keep him awake and prefered his heavily sweetened with sugar, milk, and cream.
 * Ninja: He trained with a ninja clan in Namikawa
 * Parental Substitute: In addition to being Cielo's godfather, Cielo really looked up to Samuel and even took after his smoking, interrogation techniques, and sarcasm. Samuel's betrayel (which involed Samuel emptying a pair of pistols into Cielo's back) is the main reason why Cielo has trust issues.
 * Psycho for Hire: He savors the pleasure he gets from watching people die via his assassinations.
 * Rogue Agent: Years of immoral missions and sacrifices have caused him to become so jaded that he turned his back on the agency and his country and become an agent for hire.
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: His dedication to his country and P.A.T.R.I.O.T. led him to make many deep personal sacrifices that cost him his family and friends. Soon, his sole main comfort is the rush of the Cloak and Dagger game. The fact that P.A.T.R.I.O.T. was reduced to a all-bark-no-bite bureacratic agency that no longer did Cloak and Dagger operations is the main reason for his Face Heel Turn into a Rogue Agent.
 * Smoking Is Cool: He smokes normal cigarettes and critizied Cielo for smoking flavored cigarettes.
 * Stealth Expert
 * Sweet Tooth
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Yogurt, a Shout-Out to Burn Notice.
 * Training From Hell: He subjects himself and Cielo to this.
 * Zen Survivor

Quaritch
The leader of the Rutledge Republic's elite Omega Berets. She and the rest of the Omega Berets were killed before the start of the game.
 * Action Girl
 * Badass Normal: Doesn't have any spellcasting abilities whatsoever.
 * Berserk Button: Never knock her cigar out of her hand or mouth while she's smoking it and god help you if you seriously injured one of her men.
 * BFS: She wields a claymore sword in battle.
 * Blood Knight: She loves leading her men into battle.
 * Cigar Chomper: A female example
 * Colonel Badass
 * Colonel Kilgore: She actually wept when the Galay War was over.
 * Cultured Warrior: She is fond of reading poetry when not fighting.
 * Death Seeker: She was diagnosed with a terminal disease at an early age and she decided that she wanted to die a "grander" death.
 * Friend to All Children: She's good with kids.
 * Guns Akimbo: Her sidearms were a pair of machine pistols.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: She sacrificed herself to save the Republic and Cielo.
 * Lady of War
 * Lawful Good: Type 2
 * The Leader: Type II and IV.
 * A Mother to Her Men: One of the reason why the Omega Berets are so effective. She also goes Mama Bear on those who harm her men.
 * The Musketeer: She wields a automatic rifle (based on the Browning Automatic Rifle) and a claymore interchangably. She occasionally goes Gun and Sword when the situation calls for it.
 * Officer and a Gentleman: She believes that a man should honor his word and never leech off of others.
 * Parental Substitute: In addition to being A Mother to Her Men, Cielo viewed her as a mother figure.
 * Quick Nip: She disdains alcohol and prefers to carry around a flask full of ginger ale.
 * Smoking Is Cool: She frequently puffs on cigars.

Ryu Zangan
A master marital artist who was Diana father.
 * Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: Completely averted as he considers those types of fighters to be an embarrassment to the martial arts.
 * Bare-Fisted Monk
 * Blood Knight: He enjoys testing his martial art skills in matches, but does so respectfully.
 * Captain Ersatz: Of Ryu, Huo Yuanjia, and Master Zangan (Tifa's martial arts instructor from Final Fantasy VII)
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Teodor mentions that after losing to Ryu in a match, they quickly got along and Teodor became a jujutsu student of his.
 * The Mentor: He trained Samuel Bauer, Teodor, and Diana.

Ward Kersey
Cielo's father.
 * The Alcoholic: the horrors of war caused him to drink heavily to the point where it almost destroyed his life. Adrian helped him out of this.
 * Gun and Sword: he fought with a pistol in one hand and a saber in the other during his time in the war.
 * High School Sweethearts: He was this and Victorious Childhood Friend with Cielo's mother.
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: He gets over this.
 * Standard Fifties Father
 * War Is Hell: As a veteran, he firmly believes this and tried to instil this view into Cielo.

Suiluj
The "Grand Sultan" of the Quracistan Dominion.
 * Big Bad: Of the Galay War and the OVA prequel I'm hoping to make about Cielo's time in the Omega Berets.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Compelling Voice: He was a very good speech giver.
 * Fascist but Inefficient: Zig Zagged, he ruled with an iron fist and made many services much more efficent, but in other areas he merely maintained the illusion of prosperous efficiency.
 * General Failure: While he was successful at first, his decisions and leadership style got more erratic as the war dragged on until he suffered a complete Villainous Breakdown.
 * Genghis Gambit: He was a master of this. He was able to manipulate the Quracistani city-states' hatred towards the Rutledge Republic in order to unite them into the Quracistan Dominion.
 * I Control My Minions Through...: Authority, Agenda, Birthright, Fear, Indoctrination, and Revenge.
 * Kneel Before Zod: He boasted that he would make the Chancellor of the Rutledge Republic bow before him when he wins the Galay War.
 * The Leader: Type I, III, and IV
 * A Nazi by Any Other Name: He's more of a fascist, but this still fits.
 * Neutral Evil
 * No Kill Like Overkill: He is killed by a barrage of bullets from Cielo and Quaritch.
 * Smug Snake
 * Villainous Breakdown
 * Wicked Cultured