History Characters / DeadSpace3

* TheFaceless: His face is shrouded in darkness in the audio log that explains existence of [[spoiler:the Brethren Moons]]. We do find his body [[spoiler:just before the Heart of the Machine]], but, being two hundred years old, it's desiccated.

* TheFaceless: His face is shrouded in darkness in the audio log that explains existence of [[spoiler:the Brethren Moons]]. We do find his body, but, being two hundred years old, it's desiccated.

* SenselessSacrifice: A rather Zigzagged trope. [[spoiler:Probably due to GameplayAndStorySegregation, but, there's a kinesis-activated generator not twenty feet from where Buckell is left behind, which Isaac uses to restore the heating to the building so he can survive long enough to get his own suit. Buckell could have had the team turn that on and wait for them. That being said, the nature of his wounds alongside how grievous they were, may have meant he was doomed either way and preventing hypothermia may have just prolonged the inevitable painfully.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: ''Very'' hostile against Isaac, to the point where Isaac even outright calls him an asshole. Likely an imitation of his superior's own {{Jerkass}} attitude towards Isaac. [[spoiler: To drive the point home, Isaac doesn't even mourn him, more relieved that his corpse was not Ellie's when he dug it out.]]

* KillItWithFire: Subverted. These guys are ''fireproof'', so flame-weapons have no effect on them whatsoever.

* {{Jerkass}}: He's taciturn, ruthless, and has zero people skills. If you play solo, he mostly just comes across as a goon with a gun, although he does PetTheDog once or twice such as when he backs Isaac up after [[spoiler:Isaac shoots Norton]]. The co-op game and side missions show him as having quite a lot of HiddenDepths, though.

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: His rant moments before his death shows that he refuses to take responisibility for his actions, justifying his selling the others out to save himself and Ellie as trying to "save them" and pushing all the blame on Issac.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:''Awakened'' ends with them having successfully stalled [[LetsYouAndHimFight Isaac and Carver]] until they reached Earth and began to turn its biosphere into another Brother Moon, with no means of destroying them known.]]

* ConflictKiller: After four years of games, comics, and novels seemingly leading toward a confrontation between [=EarthGov=] and Isaac (or other Necromorph hunters), the Circle, a new Unitology sect to the franchise, suddenly overthrows the government offscreen.

* AnAxeToGrind: A common weapon you can find them using are hatchets.

* ShoutOut: Their parkas, generally humanoid form, glowing eyes within their hoods, and their sudden and swift transformation once they are damaged enough all recalls the representation of the titular monster from ''Film/TheThing'' seen on that movie's theatrical poster.

* IDontWantToDie: His logs constantly talk about how he wants to survive, and he killed his captain, the woman he loved, rather than let her shoot him. He then retreated to the Conning Tower and rigged it full of booby-traps to protect himself from any S.C.A.F forces coming after him. [[spoiler: Subverted when, years later, realizing he was the only one left caused him to give up and commit suicide anyway.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Not much of a villain, [[spoiler:but the deeper you progress, the more unhinged his audiologs become. He starts out somewhat boastful, before just repeating that he doesn't want to die, before realizing that he should have accepted the Liquidation order.]]

* LeaveNoWitnesses: Part of the Liquidation order was to [[spoiler: exterminate ''anyone'' who might be able to pass on the infection, or even tell people where they could get infected]].

* LovecraftLite: Only by the most bare of technicalities, given that the climax of ''3'' ends with Isaac and Carver managing to kill the Tau Volantis Moon. Even then this still probably counts as a SubvertedTrope since it was more or less a minor ''miracle'' that the Tau Moon was in a state where it could be killed to begin with, and the act of doing so nearly killed Isaac and Carver (and before the ''Awakening'' DLC, looked like it had for all intents and purposes), and by the end of Awakening the rest of the Moons have made it to Earth and are already in the process of harvesting humanity, rendering the base ending of ''3'' a PyrrhicVictory.

* DoubleThink: One would think that a group that ruthlessly works towards ensuring Convergence happens would gladly line up to be butchered and infected, but every time the Circle’s forces run into a pack of Necromorphs they’ll unhesitantly start fighting each other. While this is because they believe the Necromorphs are the flawed result of EarthGov experimenting with the Markers, the amount of times that the infection shows up even when the government had absolutely no involvement with the Marker responsible should have raised more than a few eyebrows by itself with the implications.

* StupidEvil: Part of this can be justified by Marker Sickness, but [[spoiler: selling out Isaac to Danik in a ploy to keep Ellie was fucking stupid, considering that even if he did manage to pull it off without Danik wasting him afterward to tie up loose ends, he wouldn’t have her for very long before the Moons wake up and come knocking on his door.]]

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Non-human equivalent, but the Brute variation is notable for a ''lack'' of external mutation, being almost completely identical in appearance to the uninfected aliens entombed in the ice. The only anomalous characteristics plainly evident are the reddened flesh on its forelegs and the ability to spew the undead young of its alien host from its abdominal cavity like an unholy GrenadeLauncher.

* PowerfulPick: Some Fodders make use of ice axes when assaulting our heroes. Most of these ice pick wielders are more common in Tau Volantis

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Isaac ultimately finishes it off by using two harpoon guns to impale it and then pull it in half]].

* AdaptiveAbility: Depending on where they are injured, the resulting CombatTentacles sprout will either be used as stabbing weapons or fire barbs like that of a Lurker.

* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: A distinguishing trait of these Necromorphs is that they possess glowing yellow lights emitting from their eyes, mouth and the space where their nose used to be due to the bioluminescent pus-like gunk leaking from them.

* TechnicallyLivingZombie: Unlike other variants, Feeders appear to be just mental transformations and extended life. This extends to their FragileSpeedster status.

* BadassArmy: Although not without taking significant losses in the process, and despite being populated for the most part with NewMeat, the fact that they were familiar with the infected to the point that they had managed to not only figure out and dedicate a portion of their combat manual to eliminating them, but openly research them to the point that they were tacking dead Necromorphs onto the walls and vivisecting them heavily hints, if not states outright that the S.C.A.F were fighting a fierce ground war with the undead for a fairly long time and holding their own well enough that they were still carrying out their archaeology operations as well, all while the [[UndeadAbomination Brethren Moon]] in orbit and the [[ArtifactOfDoom countless Markers]] in and around the planet played their usual mind games with them. Compared to [[ArmiesAreUseless how well the military fared in the last two outbreaks]], that’s no mean feat indeed.

* BadassArmy: Although not without receiving their own major losses, the fact that they were familiar with the infected to the point that not only had they managed to figure out and dedicate a portion of their combat manual to eliminating them, but openly research them to the point that they were tacking dead Necromorphs onto the walls and vivisecting them heavily hints, if not states outright that the S.C.A.F were fighting a fierce ground war with the undead for a fairly long time and holding their own well enough that they were still carrying out their archaeology operations as well.