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* ItAmusedMe: More than any of the other mercs, the motive Bai gives for killing people and blowing up their stuff is simply because he thinks it's cool.
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** He shares a remarkable number of similarities with the ''Far Cry Instincts'' version of Jack Carver, the protagonist of the first game, being a former Navy S.E.A.L. turned black market arms dealer and mercenary operating in the third world. A popular fan theory is that the Jackal is Jack Carver.
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** He shares a remarkable number of similarities with the ''Far Cry Instincts'' version of Jack Carver, the protagonist of the first game, being a former Navy S.E.A.L. turned black market arms dealer and mercenary operating in the third world. They even look alike and have a similar red shirt. A popular fan theory is that the Jackal is Jack Carver.
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* CoDragons: Greaves is the leader of the APR's mercenary forces and seems to have authority roughly on par with Kouassi.
** DragonAscendant: Greaves ends up taking over the APR after Major Tambossa gets killed, either by the Jackal or by you.
** DragonAscendant: Greaves ends up taking over the APR after Major Tambossa gets killed, either by the Jackal or by you.
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* CoDragons: Voorhees is the leader of the UFLL's mercenary forces and seems to have authority roughly on par with Gakumba.
** DragonAscendant: He ends up taking over the UFLL after his boss Mbantuwe gets killed, either by the Jackal or by you.
** DragonAscendant: He ends up taking over the UFLL after his boss Mbantuwe gets killed, either by the Jackal or by you.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Snarks about the situation on occasion.
* TheLeader: The leader of the APR.
* ManipulativeBastard: Major Tambossa seems very fond of [[FalseFlagOperation False Flag Operations]], with most of your missions for him being of that nature.
* ManipulativeBastard: Major Tambossa seems very fond of [[FalseFlagOperation False Flag Operations]], with most of your missions for him being of that nature.
* TheDragon: He's Major Tambossa's number two man and the head of the APR in the North District.
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* AffablyEvil: He's generally friendlier towards you than Prosper Kouassi, or even his own UFLL counterpart Hector Voorhees.
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* AffablyEvil: He's generally friendlier towards you than Prosper Kouassi, or even his own UFLL counterpart Hector Voorhees. He also comes across as the sanest of the faction leaders.
* EvilAlbino: It's not clear if he's this or just a really, really pasty Brit, but he has white hair despite not looking that old and is also the palest character in the game.
* EvilAlbino: It's not clear if he's this or just a really, really pasty Brit, but he has white hair despite not looking that old and is also the palest character in the game.
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* TheLeader: Leader of the UFLL.
* NonActionBigBad: Unlike Major Tambossa, Mbantuwe has no prior military or combat experience and is reliant on his local muscle and the mercs from Bastion UK to do his dirty work.
* TheLeader: Leader of the UFLL.
* NonActionBigBad: Unlike Major Tambossa, Mbantuwe has no prior military or combat experience and is reliant on his local muscle and the mercs from Bastion UK to do his dirty work.
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* TheDragon: He's Mbantuwe's number two man and the head of the UFLL in the North District.
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* TheExile: He was exiled from Rhodesia[=/=]Zimbabwe during decolonization, and has been working as a merc ever since.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Voorhees seems to be universally hated among the merc community, with multiple characters speaking disparagingly about him. Xianyong Bai in particular seems to have a personal grudge against him, and Frank Bilders also calls Voorhees a bastard and tells you about his plans to eventually kill him and Mbantuwe when the opportunity arises.
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: He fights with a SPAS-12 shotgun in combat.
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* DrugsAreBad: Frank isn't actually ''against'' drug use, but he does warn it can be "dangerous". He should know, as a former IRA enforcer he would have been in charge of kneecapping local citizens for dealing.
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* {{Retirony}}: During the arms dealer assassination mission Frank mentions he's looking for one last big score in Africa that will set him up for life and let him retire. [[spoiler: If he's your best South District buddy, which he should be if he's doing the assassination mission with you, then he'll be forced to fight you at the end of the game alongside the North District buddies and you'll have to kill him.]]
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* CulturalPosturing: Much like his mentor Mbantuwe.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Many of Bai's buddy and subversion missions involve killing people or destroying their stuff simply because they crossed him or he finds them annoying.
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Unlike some of the other mercs, she's focused on destroying faction resources rather than stealing them, in order to weaken the factions or simply make a socio-political statement.
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Unlike some of the other mercs, she's focused on destroying faction resources rather than stealing them, in order to weaken the factions or simply make a socio-political statement. On the whole she acts more like a foreign agent provocateur than a neutral merc.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Many of her buddy and subversion missions involve killing faction officials involved in child trafficking.
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* ChummyCommies: Her character description mentions that she's from communist Cuba and chooses her assignments based on ideology rather than cash. She's also one of the more friendly and relatively altruistic mercenary teammates.
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* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Unlike some of the other mercs, she's focused on destroying faction resources rather than stealing them, in order to weaken the factions or simply make a socio-political statement.
* WideEyedIdealist: She's the only mercenary who actually thinks the Prince will be able to bring peace to the country upon inheriting the King's fortune. Every other Northern District merc realizes the Prince just wants to inherit the fortune so he can live like a playboy in Europe.
* WideEyedIdealist: She's the only mercenary who actually thinks the Prince will be able to bring peace to the country upon inheriting the King's fortune. Every other Northern District merc realizes the Prince just wants to inherit the fortune so he can live like a playboy in Europe.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Like Bai, his English is somewhat flawed. He often comes across as TheAhnold.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Like Bai, his English is somewhat flawed. He often comes across as TheAhnold. Whenever he sends you to kill a bureaucrat on a subversion mission he even refers to them as "little man".
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: In contrast to Michele and Flora, who seem to have altruistic motives for participating in the war, Nasreen is a merc through-and-through and motivated by her paycheck. That said, she's not as cold-blooded as Bilders or Bai.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Andre was involved in a CIA-backed assassination attempt on President Aristide, but aborted at the last minute when he saw that children were in the line of fire. He's been in hiding ever since, which is how he ended up in Africa doing merc work.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Andre was involved in a CIA-backed assassination attempt on President Aristide, but aborted at the last minute when he saw that children were in the line after having a change of fire.heart. He's been in hiding ever since, which is how he ended up in Africa doing merc work.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: He actually came to Africa to retire after making a decent living as a smuggler, but ended up getting pulled into the civil war.
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* BrainlessBeauty: The female mercs refer to him as such, being easy on the eyes but not too bright.
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** His character was heavily motivated by Colonel Kurtz from ''{{Film/ApocalypseNow}}''.
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** His character was heavily motivated inspired by Colonel Kurtz from ''{{Film/ApocalypseNow}}''.
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* BelieveTheirOwnLies: While Major Tambossa comes across as a ruthless and cynical exploiter, Mbantuwe gives the impression he actually believes his own propaganda, especially in the xenophobic rant he gives if you end up confronting him.
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* BelieveTheirOwnLies: BelievingTheirOwnLies: While Major Tambossa comes across as a ruthless and cynical exploiter, Mbantuwe gives the impression he actually believes his own propaganda, especially in the xenophobic rant he gives if you end up confronting him.
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* NoTrueScotsman: Clyde has an idealized image of PMC work, and dismisses companies like [=MacGruder=]-Powell (the guys working for the APR) and Bastion UK (the guys working for the UFLL) as amateurs and not a ''real'' PMC. Though somewhat justified as the quality of a PMC and its soldiers can indeed vary considerably.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: While Michele and Flora may have altruistic motives, Quarbani Singh is the only merc buddy whose ultimate goal is to bring an end to the war and who actually has a strategy for doing so.
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* ConsumateProfessional: Unlike many of the other merc buddies, who actually have other motives for being here or are simply criminal entrepreneurs, Marty both carries himself as a professional soldier and is mostly OnlyInItForTheMoney, making him probably the purest example of a simple merc among your buddies.
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* ConsumateProfessional: ConsummateProfessional: Unlike many of the other merc buddies, who actually have other motives for being here or are simply criminal entrepreneurs, Marty both carries himself as a professional soldier and is mostly OnlyInItForTheMoney, making him probably the purest example of a simple merc among your buddies.
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* ConsumateProfessional: Unlike many of the other merc buddies, who actually have other motives for being here or are simply criminal entrepreneurs, Marty both carries himself as a professional soldier and is mostly OnlyInItForTheMoney, making him probably the purest example of a simple merc among your buddies.
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* SemperFi: Was a Gunner Sergeant in USMC force protection before going freelance.
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* SemperFi: Was a Gunner Sergeant in USMC force protection before going freelance.freelance, and still uses a lot of military lingo in his speech.
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* ButNotTooForeign: Andre, the only Black player character, is actually from Haiti and in fact was formerly in league with the CIA, so his word usage is actually quite American. In fact Hakim, an Algerian Arab, is the only native Africa among the player characters.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: He lost his previous job because he aborted an assassination attempt due to children being in the line of fire. As a result he's working as a merc in the war-torn country.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: He lost his previous job because he aborted an DefectorFromDecadence: Andre was involved in a CIA-backed assassination attempt due to on President Aristide, but aborted at the last minute when he saw that children being were in the line of fire. As a result he's He's been in hiding ever since, which is how he ended up in Africa doing merc work.
** ResignationsNotAccepted: He's rightly fearful the CIA is looking to [[YouHaveFailedMe eliminate him for his failure]] as well as the fact HeKnowsTooMuch, and the motivation behind many of his subversion missions is to eliminate any evidence that could potentially lead the CIA to him.
* TheExile: He's only working as a merc inthe war-torn country. South Africa because he's unable to return to his native Haiti due to having botched a CIA-backed assassination attempt on President Aristide.
** ResignationsNotAccepted: He's rightly fearful the CIA is looking to [[YouHaveFailedMe eliminate him for his failure]] as well as the fact HeKnowsTooMuch, and the motivation behind many of his subversion missions is to eliminate any evidence that could potentially lead the CIA to him.
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* ReluctantRuler: If the Jackal kills Mbantuwe, leaving Voorhees in charge of the UFLL, he informs you that he "doesn't want to be a bloody warlord" but has to take the job anyway since you're all in the middle of a war.
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: If he's the one to hire you to take out Voorhees at the end of the game, His motive for trying to take over the [=UFLL=] doesn't seem to be power, but rather an attempt to get rich.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: He has a heavy Eastern European accent and speaks in somewhat broken English.
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* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments, especially compared to the other merc buddies.
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* MadEye: Gakumba has a dead eye [[GoodScarsEvilScars with a nasty scar running over it]].
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* DangerousDeserter: Ferenc went AWOL from the IDF to become a criminal, and knows all too well that the Israelis know how to hold a grudge. If he's your best buddy, during the Special Forces UFLL mission he tells you the spec ops team are actually Israeli commandos sent to arrest him, and that he'll kill you himself if he believes you're working with them.
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* DangerousDeserter: Ferenc went AWOL from the IDF to become pursue a criminal, lucrative career in crime, and knows all too well that the Israelis know how to hold a grudge. If he's your best buddy, during the Special Forces UFLL mission he tells you the spec ops team are actually Israeli commandos sent to arrest him, and that he'll kill you himself if he believes you're working with them.
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* DangerousDeserter: Ferenc went AWOL from the IDF to become a criminal, and knows all too well that the Israelis know how to hold a grudge. If he's your best buddy, during the Special Forces UFLL mission he tells you the spec ops team are actually Israeli commandos sent to arrest him, and that he'll kill you himself if he believes you're working with them.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: For her first buddy mission, she sends you to kill an [=APR=] official who's about to accidentally stumble upon incriminating evidence against her. Once the job is done, she'll tell you that she feels sick about it. She later sends you to assassinate an arms dealer and celebrates ''his'' death, so it seems she feels guilty about killing people who only got involved by accident, but otherwise isn't squeamish about killing other "players in the game".
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* IJustWantToBeBadass: Clyde's ambition is to be a badass mercenary working for an elite PrivateMilitaryContractor. This is further emphasized by his eager attitude and lack of actual military or combat experience.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Like Bai, his English is somewhat flawed. He often comes across as TheAhnuld.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Like Bai, his English is somewhat flawed. He often comes across as TheAhnuld.TheAhnold.
