History Characters / Deathloop

* TheAlcoholic: Starts out every day on the beach with a hangover.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: The sheer amount of misfortune Colt has suffered even before losing his memory is astounding. By piecing together his history over the course of the game, we learn that [[spoiler: Colt was both a Motherland soldier and a member of ''Operation: Horizon'' whose intimate relationship with another expedition member, Lila Blake, caused him to be demoted and ostracized. So, in a desperate attempt to regain his rank and reputation for the sake both Lila and the future of their unborn child, Colt volunteered himself to become the pilot of the incredibly dangerous Rakyetoplan where he would be tasked with [[OneWayTrip flying it straight into Blackreef's temporal anomaly.]] This resulted in Colt being [[AndIMustScream trapped inside a time loop by himself for]] ''[[AndIMustScream seventeen years straight]]'' before he somehow got his hands on a seaplane and successfully flew it off the island and back to civilization...only to then [[FromBadToWorse be labeled clinically insane and thrown into a mental asylum.]] Just to add salt to the wound, Lila dies of a disease during the seventeen years he was trapped on Blackreef, making him an even more self-loathing mess as he NeverGotToSayGoodbye.]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: He always thought Colt was an idiot. Colt (and has to) make him eat those words.

* PsiBlast: Alexsis Dorsey can toss enemies into the air with a wave of his hand using the Karnesis slab. Though one point of note is that it only works on living things, not inanimate objects.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: [[spoiler:Past Colt fraternized with Lila Blake, his fellow worker on Operation Horizon, getting them both demoted and her sent to the mainland when their relationship was discovered. For the sake of Lila and their unborn child, Colt volunteered for a dangerous experiment that left him in a time loop on Blackreef for seventeen years, and when he got out he was placed in an asylum until Egor helped him leave. In the meantime Lila, who had been raising Juliana alone, died of a disease. When Egor offered him an opportunity to join a project devoted to the study of the time anomaly which had trapped him for so long, Colt saw this as a chance to somehow travel back in time and save himself and Lila from their sad fates. This...did not work out]].

* ArmorPiercingResponse: [[spoiler:During their breakup, as Charlie is complaining about how]] ''[[spoiler:she]]'' [[spoiler:was the one who told him to cut out part of his brain and put it into a computer, encouraging him by saying it would be addition via subtraction. Fia points out that it takes two to tango, leaving Charlie speechless with five words]].

* HateSink: The other Visionaries at least have ''some'' sympathetic quality or other. Oh, and none of them ''want to serve ground-up people for supper'', either.

* ArmorPiercingResponse: [[spoiler:During their breakup, as Charlie is complaining about how]] ''[[spoiler:she]]'' [[spoiler:was the one who told him to cut out part of his brain and put it into a computer, encouraging him by saying it would be addition via subtraction Fia points out that it takes two to tango, leaving Charlie speechless with five words]].

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He ran a profiteering pharmaceutical company before becoming the primary financial banker of the AEON Program. At one point, he brags about tripling a price of an anti-parasitic medication.

* {{Mook}}: Some of them have stronger weapons like shotguns and sniper rifles, but they're generally only dangerous in numbers, die to a single headshot and can be disposed of it droves with Colt's powers.

** Seems to embody a lot of the rumors about [[Music/FrankSinatra]] and his violent temper.

[[folder: The Garbage Collector]]
!!The Garbage Collector

* MadeOfIron: The Collector still wears his old bomb suit, and it can make him quite a terror to deal with.

* IdiotHero: Downplayed, Colt's not exactly dumb but is a bit slow on the uptake and rarely seems to take the situation seriously. This is reflected in some of the other versions he meets who seem to have more maturity than him when trying to explain what's going on, and can have switched roles with a few other less-worldwise Colts from previous loops later in the game. [[spoiler:Justified in that his brain fried a little after looping a ridiculous amount of time]].

* CultureEqualsCostume: As what amounts to a cult leader, her variation of the Aeon uniform is a set of robes and a collar reminiscent of a priest's collar.

* BadassNormal: Has no slab of his own (seems to hate them considering he ''did'' have one but literally threw it in the garbage and he installed an anti-slab device around his building that everyone on the island has to submit to), and unlike Wenjie has no special backup beyond eternalists. Even so, if he is cornered, he is plenty ready to fight back.

* {{Expy}}: His current-day voice is a dead ringer for Music/TomWaits, who also spent his early years as a crooner and folk singer before his smoking habit caught up to him. Unlike Waits, Spicer wasn't able to adapt.

* AudienceSurrogate: Just like the player, he has no idea what's going on at first, but slowly learns how the world he's been thrust into works, develops ways to keep himself alive and then to triumph over the odds, and ultimately after a ''great'' deal of trial-and-error uses the knowledge he's gained and practiced to break the loop and win.

* IdiotHero: Downplayed, Colt's not exactly dumb but is a bit slow on the uptake and rarely seems to take the situation seriously. This is reflected in some of the other versions he meets who seem to have more maturity than him when trying to explain what's going on, and can have switched roles with a few other less-worldwise Colts from previous loops later in the game.

* JerkassWoobie: Is one of the more loathsome visionaries, but that's largely the result of the fact that he's lobotomized and is physically incapable of feeling empathy. Seeing him get abused by Fia makes him at least pitiable if not sympathetic, and his abuse of 2bit can almost come across as self-loathing when you learn that 2bit was made using his own brain.

* HateSink: Most of them are written to be as cruel, petty, and vile as possible- the only exceptions being Spicer, Blake, and to a lesser extent Evans (who at least doesn't actively get off to hurting people).

* ItsAllAboutMe: If it's one thing that's clear going by the documents she's left behind, Beetlequeen could've cared less about their team's mission and was far more concerned about what the AEON Program could potentially do for her. Notably fantasizing about living a life of luxury in Colt's old apartment instead of freezing her ass off at her observation post while being chewed out by Sullohern.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: One of his anecdotes related over the radio involves him gunning down a bellhop who beat up his drummer.

* TakeThat / TakeThatUs: Several of Charlie's notes throughout the game, including one regarding the finale scramble to complete ''Condition Detachment'' prior the loop, are textbook examples of abusive game design crunch.

* RedsWithRockets: [[spoiler: The Motherland, the superpower-level nation Colt originally served under as a soldier, seems to be an in-universe analogue to the real-world [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], thus making Colt a rare protagonist-focused example of this trope. Being in the same universe as the Franchise/{{Dishonored}} series means that the "Motherland" is the northern isle of Tyvia, which is indeed Russia-esque (as evidenced by the name of one of its most prominent historical favored sons from the Dishonored time period: Anton Sokolov)]]

* DracoInLeatherPants: Her charisma and tragic backstory leads many players to forget that she's effectively trapping hundreds of people in an existential nightmare, as Pick Rexley's experience shows, just so she alone can enjoy the loop.
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:While she can be fought as part of the invasion mechanic, defeating her as part of that does not count as eliminating her entirely for the purposes of breaking the loop. If the perfect loop is achieved, she's actually the last of the Visionaries whom Colt encounters - although by then Juliana [[TheUnfought opts to talk it out]] instead.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: She was just a simple archivist for Aeon who initially didn't have any fighting skills. But when Colt started his campaign to break the loop, she kept getting killed during his attempts. Eventually she had enough and started honing her own skills to fight back, eventually starting to like hunting and killing him, soon becoming the biggest thorn in Colt's side in his attempts to break the loop.]]

* IdiotBall: Justified. [[spoiler:Julianna wants to convince Colt to stop trying to break the loop, but has already done so countless times, just to lose the progress she's made with him to his amnesia. By the time the game starts she's bored enough to be willing to take less than wise risks when she tries new ways to achieve that goal, which enables the player to break the loop]].
* ILetYouWin: [[spoiler: If her goal were purely to preserve the loop she could simply kill Colt before he wakes up. Instead she lets him carry on his attempts to break the loop in the hope that he'll come to see how fun it can be and that they can be reunited.]]
* IShallTauntYou: Never misses a chance to talk down to Colt, rub in any failings, and dismiss his attempts to break the loop. She'll even make such remarks when she kills Colt with her machete.
** She also announces her presence on the speaker system whenever she invades a game, giving him warning that she's coming.

** [[spoiler: While she is bitter about Colt constantly murdering her, ultimately she want to keep her "immortality" within in the loop and is hoping Colt will join her since both are immune to the memory loss the loop brings that the other Visionaries and Eternalists suffer from. Colt tries to reason with her however that it's not much of a life since it's just reliving the same events over and over where nothing really changes save for what the two of them do, which won't matter once the day ends. But she always keeps spinning it that Colt doesn't understand and should enjoy himself being unable to die completely.]]

** [[spoiler: Notably despite being an archivist she shows little interest in studying the anomaly, sharing that knowledge with the outside world or helping anyone else inside it (e.g. Frank who she's more sympathetic towards) remember past events. As long as she and Colt get to keep their personal playground everyone else can go hang as far as she's concerned.]]

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: She notes that seeing as she wakes up before Colt she could simply track him down and kill him before he wakes up if she wanted to. [[spoiler: If Colt successfully breaks the loop she almost makes good on this before changing her mind.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The aforementioned flammable gas in Harriet's area can be ignited to kill her, as well as the gas from her weapon.
** This may happen [[spoiler: to the ''player'' if she catches Colt. Using Nexus, she will link Colt to an eternalist, meaning if they die Colt will too. Hope that she doesn't pull this on an enemy you're in the middle of executing.]]

* {{Synchronization}}: Harriet can use the Nexus slab to link the fates of anyone hit by an exploding projectile.

* AwfulTruth: Wenjie has figured out from various clues that it is not First Day and everyone, including herself, are losing their memories after each Loop. She has not shared this with the others.
** Even worse, the same note in which she speculates on the memory loss also proposes another consequence of the loop, namely that extended destabilization could eventually create the temporal equivalent of a supernova. Wenjie describes the potential range of this event as '''[[EarthShatteringKaboom "interstellar."]]'''

* ForScience: One of the few visionaries on Black Reef for this purpose. [[spoiler: Colt can take advantage of this by baiting her to Alexis' party with knowledge of accessing the door leading to the Rakyatoplan.]] Despite being the one who made the loop possible she'd rather lock herself away in her lab and study it further than lord things over the other visionaries and eternalists or join their eternal party.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Played with: she has the good sense to protect the dangerous pressurization controls in her lab with a password that changes every loop...which she then writes down on a post-it note placed on a whiteboard so all the other Wenjies can read it, which is still more secure than normal since Colt can't just remember the code.
* PlagiarismInFiction: [[spoiler: Although she is incredibly intelligent even by Visionary standards and is one of the few actual scientists on Blackreef, Harriet discovered that Evans' Laws, the scientific discovery that initially granted her renown and the notice of AEON, was actually plagiarized from her lab assistant, and it's implied that she killed them to conceal the evidence.]]

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Wenjie and her duplicates wield various guns among them, but prior to the Goldenloop update, if you [[spoiler: tricked her into attending Alexis' party in Updaam in the Evening]], she came packing a Vopat Trencher with the Open Wounds Perk.

* CombatPragmatist: Since he isn't as fit as Colt, Egor fights a bit more ruthlessly. [[spoiler: Granted, while he prefers to snipe Colt from a distance, he uses [[InvisibilityCloak the Aether slab]] well to stay out of sight until he makes a shot.]]
* CrypticBackgroundReference: He makes a ton of these during his fight if you alert him to your presence. [[spoiler: Apparently Egor was the first to find Colt in some sort of mental asylum that he got thrown into after escaping the ''first'' time loop. Egor's penchant for parascience is what drew his attention to someone claiming to have lived inside a time anomaly, so the credit for AEON existing at all goes to Egor, or so he claims. He also claims to be trying to research messages from other times and spaces which ''may'' be the floating words you've been seeing the whole game.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: He's been working very hard to prove his theories, all while putting up with a total lack of respect from everyone around him. If Colt sabotages his equipment so that his latest experiment fails, he'll go to Aleksis's party to drink away his frustrations. [[spoiler:This is vital to attaining a perfect loop, as Colt can potentially kill him, Wenjie and Alexis in one fell swoop.]]

--> “Egor craves a contradictory kind of legitimacy: he wants to be left alone and viewed as a preeminent genius, but he also wants to be adored and invited to parties. And when neither of those things happen… Egor turns violent.”

* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: The conversation he has with Fia during their secret meetup implies that he's the one who actually wrote the song ''Ode to Somewhere'', and that it was a love ballad for Fia that Frank took, changed the chord progression, and made his own hit.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: If Colt is persistent, he can find a way to do this with [[spoiler: Charlie's creation 2-Bit by hacking him and/or gaining his trust. Using the machine, Colt can either kill Charlie in the rules of his own game, or by activating the actual rocket set up in the middle of the game]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: His abuse of 2-Bit comes back to bite him ''hard'' if Colt proves to 2-Bit that Charlie doesn't care about him, causing 2-Bit to pull a HeelFaceTurn and start assisting Colt for the rest of the loops. He's also the Visionary who gets the most humiliating ending in the extended ending, still getting dumped by Fia and being beaten up by Colt to save 2-Bit.]]
* KillerGameMaster: He seems a lot more interested in screwing over players than rewarding them (and if he does reward them, it's only so they can recognize his genius game design).

* NeverMyFault: Part of his decreased empathy from [[spoiler: removing part of his brain to create 2-Bit]] means he rarely if ''ever'' admits fault for his shortcomings, be that in his games or in his life. [[spoiler: This extends to not understanding the ''consequences'' of his actions. Removing part of his brain to power 2-Bit is implied to have heavily damaged his creativity, which is what Fia was implied to have been attracted to, leading to their breakup. Despite having basically dismissed the risks of removing part of his brain, the first action he takes after Fia breaks up with him after the Loop breaks is to try and ''take his brain part back'' from 2-Bit as if it were 2-Bit's fault.]]

* {{Irony}}: The showiest member of the Visionaries, prominent across the island in reputation and his radio work, has an entire area dedicated to him a sort of indulgence for his [[AttentionWhore thirst for attention]]. [[spoiler:The key to picking him off on the route to a perfect loop is to let his own party fireworks kill him right at the beginning before he can even hope to take any more of Colt's time.]]

SharpDressedMan: For all his faults, Aleksis is one snappy dresser, wearing full power suits even in pre-Loop photographs. His suits actually change from loop to loop, making it harder to pick him out in a crowd.

* {{Jerkass}}: None of the Visionaries are saints, but Aleksis is a special kind of bastard. In terms of personality, Aleksis is crass, entitled, and just all around vile. His 'Devouring of the Lambs' party is centered around being the biggest bastard you can be, and when he takes the stage his story is no slouch.

* IdiotHero: Downplayed, Colt's not exactly dumb but is a bit slow on the uptake and rarely seems to take the situation seriously. This is reflected in some of the other versions he meets who seem to have more maturity than him when trying to explain what's going on.

* RippleEffectProofMemory: He carries memory of knowledge of the previous loop whenever he resets the day, allowing him to slowly build his skills and start planning how to take out the Visionaries within the day. However Julianna likewise has the same power which makes his tasks tougher than they need to be. Interestingly, from all accounts it seems ''Julianna'' is the one that had the ability first, which is part of why she was able to 'level up' and start [[AssassinOutclassin beating Colt during his own attempts to break the loop]], only for Colt to somehow acquire it later on in subsequent loops. It's hinted to be the reason that Colt's Amnesic in the beginning loops that his memories (and the game) start at.