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*{{Lobotomy}}: [[spoiler: Her unfortunate fate at the end of the movie when she refuses to go along with the conspiracy, both to keep her quiet and to provide a convenient scapegoat for the disaster on the Ishimura and the destruction of the O'Bannon.]]
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* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:Granted, he was ''completely'' bonkers by that time but seriously, attacking an armored [[ActionSurvivor Isaac Clarke]] in close-combat with a screwdriver is ''not'' a good idea. Same thing could be said about [[EyeScream gouging out one of Ellie's eyes]], since all it achieved was ''pissing her off'' enough for her to finally open a can of whoopass on him.]]
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* AlliterativeName: '''C'''aleb '''C'''ampbell.
* DrowningMySorrows: After the Aegis VII incident involving many deaths of his crew mates and Kuttner’s insanity, he was seen in Stross’ flashback drinking a bottle or two.
* {{Expy}}: To Benjamin Mathius of the USG Ishimura, where aside from the scar on Campbell’s left side of his face, they shared a similar appearance and status as captain. However, he could also be considered a GoodCounterpart because Campbell clearly wants nothing to do with the shard, knowing that it’s affecting his psyche and was more concerned about his crew, while Mathius goes further [[SanitySlippage insane]], determined to get the shard back home, not caring what happens to the people onboard.
* {{Retirony}}: Before he [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed himself to save the remaining crew,]] Campbell wanted someone to tell his now-widowed wife she was right about retiring before his final mission.
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[[folder:Nolan Stross]]
->Played by: Curt Cornelius
A scientist that experimented on a Marker in ''WesternAnimation/DeadSpaceAftermath''. Stross went insane and was locked up on the Sprawl after he killed his wife and son (whether he was hallucinating or if they had turned into Necromorphs is unknown). In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'', Stross knows Isaac since they both had information about the Marker, and insists that he knows how to destroy it, but his incoherent ramblings make him hard to understand.
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* AssholeVictim: His hubris is directly responsible for everything that happens on the O'Bannon in ''[[WesternAnimation/DeadSpaceAftermath Aftermath]]''. Even before he came under the Marker Shard's influence and brutally murdered his wife and infant child, he was still an arrogant dick. Supplemental material shows that he was cheating on his wife, planned on leaving her, and thought too highly of himself to consider that he shouldn't be playing with the Red Marker fragment. When all hell broke loose, he panicked, leading directly to a lot of people's deaths.
* TheAtoner: Say what you will about him, if it wasn't for him, Isaac would have given up hope altogether and never would have known to chase down the Marker, let alone where to find it. His actions of seeking out Isaac spared Earth space [[spoiler:for at least three more years anyways]], but, unfortunately, he didn't have nearly enough willpower to end it himself.
* AxCrazy: After the Marker is done with him, he goes completely insane with a penchant of ''[[EyeScream sticking screwdrivers into people's eyes]]''
* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:Granted, he was ''completely'' bonkers by that time but seriously, attacking an armored [[ActionSurvivor Isaac Clarke]] in close-combat with a screwdriver is ''not'' a good idea. Same thing could be said about [[EyeScream gouging out one of Ellie's eyes]], since all it achieved was ''pissing her off'' enough for her to finally open a can of whoopass on him.]]
* BuriedAlive: Stross' greatest fear, as manifested by the interrogation chair, is being buried alive and left to die.
* CanonImmigrant: He appeared in ''WesternAnimation/DeadSpaceAftermath'' before ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2''.
* DirtyCoward: Not that he can really be blamed, but he knows that he has to enter the machine to fight back against the Marker. The problem is that he's too afraid to face his dead wife once he completes the session. He decides that Ellie should enter the machine in his place and, in his insanity, tries to give her a "session" with a screwdriver. To be fair to him, he's gone untreated from his PTSD, survivor's guilt, and his psychosis over the last three years and was forced to create the very marker that's driving him insane and killed everyone around him. In addition, him actually remembering the details of what EarthGov did to him and the other patients actually is detrimental to his willpower. Isaac doesn't remember the horrors or the sessions, making him more likely to want to attempt a session. On top of that, the Marker is specifically designed to use every psychological trick in the book to break its victims. Isaac has a host of psychological crutches that Nolan simply doesn't have such as his status as an engineer which gives access to tools and armor. While Isaac has the engineering know how to juryrig weapons, Nolan can only survive by hiding which drives his desparation and hopelessness.
* DueToTheDead: Regardless of what Isaac does with his corpse, he took no pleasure in killing Stross. Isaac sees himself in Stross and is understanding of his insanity while Ellie dismisses it. Isaac never blames Nolan for what he did, but lays all of the blame on the Marker. He is understandably pissed when hallucination!Nicole mocks Isaac over Nolan's death.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stross' purpose in the game is to provide clues to what Isaac needs to do in order to complete his mission to kill the Marker. Isaac actually goes out of his way to save Stross because he believes Stross holds the key to understanding how Isaac can stop the outbreak.
* FaceHeelTurn: The further down his sanity spirals, [[spoiler:the less helpful he becomes, until he's actively hindering your progress. It's born of a desire to not accept responsibility for what he's done.]]
* HeroicBSOD: He killed his wife and kid while hallucinating. The guilt eventually leads to his death.
* MadnessMantra: As he grows increasingly insane, Stross starts babbling constantly about the "three steps", with no greater context for what those mean.
* TheMillstone:
** Stross is a completely useless liability. While he tells Isaac where the Marker is, and claims to knows how to destroy it, Stross degenerates rapidly into a MadnessMantra and has nothing to contribute after that. [[spoiler:Once he becomes violent, Isaac struggles with him and kills him. Turns out, his help was unnecessary, anyway]]. To the point that the developers put an audiolog [[spoiler:on his body, in the extremely likely event that the player would want to abuse his corpse.]]
** He was also this in ''Aftermath'', culminating with him [[spoiler:hesitating to throw the Marker Shard inside the ship's engines to destroy it, while the other survivors were fighting for their lives against the Necromorphs.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The man was an arrogant prick who didn't think about what his cheating would have on his family. However, dialogue in the second game imply that he actually did love his son. It was only long after he killed them that he realized how much he cared about them which drives his guilt. The Marker tortures him with their faces and, in the end, he was too afraid to confront them. He tries to force Ellie and Isaac to take his place by giving them a "session" with a screwdriver.
* NeverMyFault: His FatalFlaw. As ''WesternAnimation/DeadSpaceAftermath'' showed, he was responsible for the death of several people after breaking a seal on a door, which let a necromorph slaughter a crew of workers. Driven insane by it, he brutally murders his wife, Alexis, and their son, by his own hands. By refusing to accept responsibility for his actions, the Marker slowly drives him crazy in ''2'', [[spoiler:to the point he [[FaceHeelTurn starts attacking Isaac and Ellie]], forcing Isaac to kill him in self-defense]].
* ShadowArchetype: To Isaac. Isaac and Stross were both brought to the same colony and suffer from similar delusions under the Marker's influence. However, Isaac accepts his girlfriend's death and stays sane, while Stross let's his guilt consume him.
* SanitySlippage: Starts out fairly coherent and helpful, and gradually degenerates through the course of the game as the Marker eats away at his mind, until he's a violent maniac.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: He kills his wife and kid because he saw them as a slasher and lurker, respectively.
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* AFateWorseThanDeath: Being lobotomized in a drooling vegetable and framed as the one responsible for all the deaths that happened on Aegis VII, the Ishimura, and the O'Bannon. What else could you call what Earth-Gov did to her?
* MsFanservice: In some of the Flashbacks. Notable as she's the only Dead Space human female shown having sex or partially nude
* HeroicWillpower: Said to have a notably strong will that kept her resistant to both the Marker and the Earth-Gov conspiracy's temptations. Sadly her resistance to the latter leads to her downfall when Earth-Gov decides she's a liability.
* TheScapegoat: Cho is turned into this by Earth-Gov in order to cover up the events that transpired at Aegis VII as punishment for refusing their job offer in studying the Markers. She's lobotomized to keep her quiet and framed to the public as a terrorist that massacred the crew on Aegis VII, the Ishimura and the O'Bannon before being held at the Sprawl to be tried for her "crimes".
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Despite Cho’s fate and only being mentioned in a log, what happened to her during ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' hasn’t been brought up.
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[[folder:Nickolas Kuttner]]
->Played by: Christopher Judge
* TheBigGuy: As a buff and big ex-marine, he's the strongest of the survivors and the one known for taking out the biggest Necromorphs. He even managed to fight his way out from the Earth-Gov interrogators before unintentionally killing himself.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His daughter Vivian [[PosthumousCharacter died prior to the movie]], which was the source of angst that the Marker Fragment takes advantage of.
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* ArtificialLimbs: A rarity seeing as most people just get cloned ones in Dead Space's future.
* ClusterFBomb: Swears like a sailor in response to all the horror he's seen.
* HandicappedBadass: He’s missing an arm, but he makes up for it with a cybernetic replacement. He survives the Necromorph outbreak on the USG O’Bannon, and is able to keep himself sane while a majority who encounter the Marker go crazy. He’s only killed because someone shoots him in the back when his guard is down.
* HopeSpot: Led to believe he was getting away unharmed before he got shot in the head.
* ItsAllMyFault: Said this word to word [[spoiler:after his cousin died in Aegis VII.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's both HotBlooded and the OnlySaneMan of the crew.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He genuinely cares for his cousin, [[spoiler:even falls into a grief-stricken rage [[JerkassToOne against Kuttner for killing him]] [[RevengeMyopia under the Marker's influence]]]].
* OnlySaneMan: Remained resistant to the Marker's influence like Cho, and the only male to show no change in attitude in response to the events on the O'Bannon. Lampshaded by Borges himself.
-->'''Alejandro Borges:''' Seriously, am I the only one who didn't go batshit crazy back on that damn planet?!
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Was seen surrounded by Necromorphs before being cutoff from Captain Campbell in Stross’s flashback and later revealed to survive in one piece in Cho’s flashback, clearly fighting them off while creating weapons to fight against them.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Gets his head blasted when the Earth-Gov interrogators decided he wasn't useful since he hadn't made direct contact with the Marker fragment.
* YouKilledMyFather: Holds a grudge against Kuttner for killing his cousin in Aegis VII, [[RevengeMyopia not caring]] [[MisplacedRetribution if the latter was under Marker influence when doing so]].
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