History Characters / Fallout4Companions

** Aside from Strong, who just likes murdering people in general, Cait is the only companion to [[spoiler:flat out approve of executing Danse in "Blind Betrayal" once he's revealed to be a Synth, assuming the worst of him]]. Especially telling as characters who Danse was previously [[FantasticRacism nothing but rude to]] (Hancock, Nick, Curie) and even Deacon (who works for the Railroad) will still stick up for him here.
** Cait will also like it if [[spoiler:you go through with massacring the Railroad in "End of the Line", even [[BlatantLies assuring]] the Sole Survivor that the Railroad never did anything for them despite Tinker Tom basically being the main reason they got to the Institute in the first place.]]

** In a near-literal example, she, X6-88, and Strong are the only members of the Sole Survivor's companions to show an active dislike of [[CanineCompanion Dogmeat]], with her even derisively calling him a "dirty little mole rat."

-->'''Paladin Danse:''' Don't mistake my tolerance of your existence for friendship, Synth. We have nothing to say to each other.

* AnythingThatMoves: She flirts with men often, particularly the player's other companions (Preston, [=MacCready=], Deacon, Hancock, maybe Danse), but she also makes a comment about "[making] it a threesome" (ostensibly about travelling as a trio but implicitly...not) with you and Piper when changing companions between them. And, as with all companions who can be romanced, she can be charmed by the player character regardless of their gender.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being pretty cynical and noticeably less altruistic than most of the other companions to the Sole Survivor, she has some lines.

* TheTease: Aside from the player, Cait makes flirtatious comments with most of the male companions in the game when the player switches them out, and also Piper. The only one she doesn't tease is Danse. After romancing her, asking about the status of your relationship with her may provoke comments about looking for a bed if you're tired, and that she's "havin' some pretty naughty thoughts about you right now."

* AmbiguouslyBi: She flirts with men often, particularly the player's other companions, but she also makes a comment about "[making] it a threesome" (ostensibly about travelling as a trio but implicitly...not) with you and Piper when changing companions between them. And, as with all companions who can be romanced, she can be charmed by the player character regardless of their gender.

* NiceGirl: She dislikes the Sole Survivor being a {{Jerkass}} and approves of noble actions, politeness in conversations, and helping people throughout the wastes. Really, she might quite possibly be the nicest companion character in the series to date, and is easily the second least biased behind Codsworth.

* MayDecemberRomance: Only Codsworth and Curie are near the same chronological age as the Sole Survivor, what with them being 200 years old robots, and only the latter of the two can be romanced. All of the other romance-able companions are roughly two centuries younger then them, although the Sole Survivor [[OlderThanTheyLook don't look that way]].

* ToxicFriendInfluence: Cait, Strong, X6-88 and MacCready approve of being rude, selfish and greedy, so if you're with them, you might have to go out of your way to be a {{Jerkass}} to please them. Cait and Hancock, who is otherwise a stand-up Ghoul, also encourage you using chems, although they will express concern if you're addicted and Cait will change tracks if she is cured. Danse, who is also otherwise pretty moral, hates Synths, Ghouls and Super Mutants and will approve of choices discriminating against, abusing or killing them.

** '''Paladin Danse:''' Don't mistake my tolerance of your existence for friendship, Synth. We have nothing to say to each other.

* MayDecemberRomance: Only Codsworth and Curie are near the same chronological age as the Sole Survivor, what with them being 200 years old robots, and only the latter of the two can be romanced. All of the other romance-able companions are roughly two centuries younger then them.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Despite several of them being from different factions with different outlooks, they can at the least tolerate one another as shown by their dialog when switching them out.

'''Paladin Danse:''' Don't mistake my tolerance of your existence for friendship, Synth. We have nothing to say to each other.

* GutturalGrowler: Like most Ghouls, Hancock's voice has a distinct rasp to it.

* GutturalGrowler: He's a "Frankenstein"; the voice comes with the territory.

** Aside from Strong, who just likes murdering people in general, Cait is the only companion to [[spoiler:flatout approve of executing Danse in "Blind Betrayal" once he's revealed to be a Synth, assuming the worst of him]]. Especially telling as characters who Danse was previously [[FantasticRacism nothing but rude to]] (Hancock, Nick, Curie) will still stick up for him here.

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Of the three "evil" companions in the base game. Cait isn't a saint, but compared to the likes of Strong (a brutal and violent super mutant) and X6-88 (a cold-blooded synth assassin), Cait is just a deeply cynical and bitter person who became that way because of her DarkAndTroubledPast, which is wholly sympathetic. She's also the only one that can be "reformed", in a sense; if the player completes her personal quest and maxes out affinity with her, she's grateful to you for being a positive influence on her and helping her turn her life around. This is reflected in her affinity reactions to the use of chems and alcohol; she goes from approving of the player using chems and giving them to others, to disapproving of them.

** Almost literally; while she normally disapproves of charity and helping others, as well as Dogmeat and dogs in general, she likes it when you heal Dogmeat. She also praises Dogmeat as clever if she accompanies to him and the Sole Survivor Fort Hagen.

* DiabolicalMastermind: Organises three separate Raider gangs into cooperating under a charasimatic leader figure in order to make them all rich by rebuilding the Nuka-World park and using it as a staging area for launching raids into the Commonwealth.

* {{Forgiveness}}: Can do this for the Mechanist at the end of the ''Automatron'' questline, [[spoiler:if you opt to spare her. While she still has some anger over what happened, Ada accepts that Isabel genuinely meant well for the Commonwealth, that the Robobrains deciding "help people" meant "kill them" was a horrible mistake and that Isabel will have to live with the guilt of causing hundreds of innocent deaths, which she can relate to]].

* FemBot: Like all Assaultrons, her upper torsos chassis has a vaguely feminine cast, mostly because the [[BreastPlate armored protrusion on the upper torso]] looks a little like NonMammalianMammaries. Furthermore, she has a female voice and personal identity.

* GrumpyOldMan: Longfellow dislikes it if you bother him too much with unnecessary conversation. And of course, he's a really surly old-timer in much of his dialogue.

* TheDragon: After the death of his boss, Overboss Colter, Gage throws his lot in with you.

* InsultFriendlyFire: While discussing the StupidEvil of most Raiders, the Sole Survivor can remark that ''all'' Raiders are stupid. Gage [[ImStandingRightHere indignantly points out] that [[HypocriticalHumor they probably shouldn't say things like that now that they're Overboss]].

* PragmaticVillainy: With heavy emphasis on "pragmatism." He wants to put together a huge organization for the sole purpose of robbing the Commonwealth as efficiently as possible. "Action" and "fun" are merely side benefits. In fact, he outright despises other Raiders who [[StupidEvil never think beyond their next kill or hit of Psycho and get themselves killed for it]].

* TheSocialDarwinist: To Gage, the world is only divided through the roles of "victims" and "victors" -- and the "victors" always take, never give.

* AmbiguouslyBi: She flirts with men often, particularly the player's other companions, but she also makes a comment about "[making] it a threesome" with you and Piper when changing companions between them. And, as with all companions who can be romanced, she can be charmed by the player character regardless of their gender.

** He's the only companion in the game, besides Strong, who loses affinity if the player heals Dogmeat.

** One of the things that makes you lose Affinity with him is simply ''healing Dogmeat'', presumably because he was hoping to eat the pup.

** Zig-Zagged if he is [[spoiler:shown the pod of the Sole Survivor's dead spouse; he will call them weak, but will offer to avenge them.]]

** Almost literally; while she normally disapproves of charity and helping others, as well as Dogmeat and dogs in general, she likes it when you heal Dogmeat.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Like in TheCreon above, he prefers to whisper in the ear of the man in charge. He remarks he's been like that since before Nuka-World.

* NoJustNoReaction: One of Gage's possible responses if the Sole Survivor tries to talk to him again after he refuses to keep traveling with him/her.

* SpannerInTheWorks: He's the only reason you're able to beat Colter ''at all'' and he makes that clear at any chance. If he hadn't stashed the Squirt Gun you use to short out Colter's Power Armor, then the Overboss would've just shrugged off everything you threw at him.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Gage is explicitly evil and revels in it. Cait and Strong come nowhere near this guy's level (indeed, both are capable of altruism, especially the former as she warms to you), while X6-88 at least believes that his actions are for the greater good. There is no line Gage isn't willing to cross for mayhem, carnage and loot. However, he averts the StupidEvil traits common to his archetype, being a clever opportunist who waits for the right moment.

* VillainTeamUp: It was he who assembled the alliance of Raider clans in Nuka-World to

* NotSoStoic: He outright '''shouts''' at the Sole Survivor if they side with the Nuka-World Raiders.
** Bringing him to Quincy to [[PayEvilUntoEvil cleanse the place of Gunners]] will have Preston make numerous comments full of scorn/contempt for the Gunners and display barely-disguised outrage at what they did to Quincy

** In ''Nuka-World'', [[NotSoStoic he practically shouts at you if you use the Raider gangs to raid settlements.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Preston instantly quits being your companion if you ever attack a Minuteman. He will also chew you out if you did not issue the evacuation order before destroying the Institute, lamenting the innocent lives lost in the explosion.

-->"Fucking Raiders... They get so greedy, so focused on 'right now' they make shitty mistakes, and wind up dead. Hell, maybe some of them are ''trying'' to get killed."

* EvilMentor: His role, in a nutshell, is to try and instill into you all the "pros" of being a self-centered, pillaging scum of the wastes -- done via pseudo-sympathetic "I've been there before" fashion.

* InsultFriendlyFire: While discussing the StupidEvil of most Raiders, the Sole Survivor can remark that ''all'' Raiders are stupid. Gage indignantly points out they probably shouldn't say things like that now that they're Overboss.

* PragmaticVillainy: With heavy emphasis on "pragmatism." He wants to put together a huge organization for the sole purpose of robbing the Commonwealth as efficiently as possible. "Action" and "fun" are merely side-benefits.

** Almost literally; while she normally disapproves of charity and helping others, she likes it when you heal Dogmeat.

* LeeroyJenkins: He doesn't do (or, more accurately, understand the concept of) stealth. Any attempts at sneaking aren't going to work with him in the party, because he'll gleefully run out of the shadows and begin fighting legions of enemies, requiring you to go save his dumb ass. Though really, you only have yourself to blame for bringing him on a stealth mission considering how spending less than five minutes around ''any'' Super Mutant will be enough of an indicator to the player regarding how they all view stealth.

* NotSoStoic: He sounds audibly disgusted if the Sole Survivor commits cannibalism where he can see them, as well as visibly frightened whenever he has to board a Vertibird.

* FantasticRacism: Downplayed since it never reaches outright genocidal levels, but he derisively refers to Synths as "fake men" and is perfectly happy with wiping out the Railroad whereas he doesn't enjoy helping them progress through their questline otherwise.

* TheAhab: He's been hunting [[BonusBoss Shipbreaker]], a gigantic Fog Crawler, for decades. He's even [[spoiler:got a unique harpoon gun for the sole purpose of hunting it down. He gives it to the Sole Survivor if they help him finally take down the beast.]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dips into this occasionally thanks in part to her FishOutOfTemporalWater tendencies, for example saying that combat, while dangerous, is good exercise as one of her random battle quips.

The selling point of the ''Automatron'' DLC, these "generic" robots are heavily customizable robot companions that you can take with you for your adventures throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. The player can also choose what type of voice they have, from a selection of a generic male voice, female voice, the voice of a Sentry Bot or Assaultron, or even make the bot communicate entirely in beeps.

* GatlingGood: All robot types with arms can be given a Minigun. There's even an "Unstable" variant, which deals insane damage, though can fall off after continuous fire.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: They can be geared with Shishkebab.

* JustAMachine: Unlike Ada, they lack free will, and will always be under the Survivor's control. Subverted in that they can also be made self aware if the player chooses.
* RoboSpeak: The male and female voices have this tone by default. This can be averted if the player activates their personality subroutine. The Assaultron and Sentry Bot voices can only use this type of voice.

* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: All Automatrons can be used as settlers and will do mundane tasks like farming crops, minding stores and scavenging at a scavenging station. Or you can make one be a provisioner going between settlements. This doesn't stop you from equipping them with deadly gatling guns or back-mounted missile launchers. In fact, this trope makes them ''especially'' good at being provisioners, as they double as patrol bots, stopping to annihilate whatever group of raiders was [[TooDumbToLive dumb enough]] to set up shop on one of their provision routes.

* MixAndMatchCritter: Their main trait. They can be the quickest of Mister Handies or the toughest of the Sentry Bots.

* DrugsAreBad: He has seen firsthand what happens to raider gangs that get hooked on Chems, which is why he [[StraightEdgeEvil disapproves]] of their use.

* RatedMForManly: He's a tough-as-nail professional soldier sporting a low voice and wearing a suit of PoweredArmor that can tank injuries like nothing. It can even be lampshaded by Cait in a flirty, offhand comment.
-->'''Cait:''' There's nothing quite like the smell of Power Armor grease and testosterone.\\
'''Danse:''' ''(responding in kind)'' The aroma is rather... pungent.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: People don't just respect him for his title, as even Strong and X6-88 recognize his combat mettle.

* RousingSpeech: Often does this from the balcony of the Mayor's office in Goodneighbor, as befitting his HundredPercentAdorationRating.