History Characters / FarCry2

* CulturedBadass: A OneManArmy with a habit of quoting Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, as well as Creator/PercyBysseShelley at one point in Reuben's CharacterBlog.

--> ''The Jackal:'' What do you think you're going to achieve with this interview? You think somebody in the Pentagon is going to read it and come after me? [[PrecisionFStrike Shit no!]] I'm a necessary evil. They want me here. They're glad I'm here.

* ButThouMust: It's impossible, despite claims in some reviews, to pick a side; once you've done all one faction's missions in an area, the plot is on hold until you've done the other faction's. [[spoiler:It's also impossible to carry out your initial mission and kill The Jackal; you're forced to join up with him. What's worse is that you're then forced to kill all your friends and allies for the sake of [=NPCs=] you've never met before at the behest of a man you've been trying to kill]].

* EtTuBrute: The game's "final battle" is [[spoiler: a firefight against your mercenary buddies, who are trying to use blood diamonds to bribe their way out of the country. You want the diamonds as bribes to help save the civilian population from genocide]]. Additionally, some of the optional buddy missions (especially those given by the 3 female mercs) given to you at Mike's Bar were actually fairly altruistic in motive (collecting evidence of war crimes, destroying weapon supplies, killing drug dealers marketing ''to children'', etc.), [[spoiler: so it's fairly jarring when at the end the majority of them turn out to be a bunch of selfish jerks]].

* VillainProtagonist: The main character of the game, in his obsessive pursuit of his target, will help the opposing armies destroy medicine, kill innocents, and eliminate water supplies. His buddies can get just as bad, as well, even if it's [[EvilVsEvil to combat equally bad people]]. Xianyong Bai, in particular, has a side-mission involving someone holding onto a massive stack of travel documents and passports because he's waiting for a reason to sell them - rather than recovering them yourself to pass out or even sell, he wants you to just burn them all so ''nobody'' can use them.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The player and the Jackal ultimately team up to rescue the fleeing refugees from being slaughtered by the UFLL and the APR in a SuicideMission that involves one blowing themselves up with a mountain and the orders to shoot themselves after the civilians escape. The player admits in the journal that the situation is nuts but it's the right thing to do.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The player and the Jackal ultimately team up to rescue the fleeing refugees from being slaughtered by the UFLL and the APR in a SuicideMission that involves one blowing themselves up with a mountain and the orders to shoot themselves after the civlians escape. The player admits in the journal that the situation is nuts but it's the right thing to do.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The player and the Jackal ultimately team up to rescue the fleeing refugees from being slaughtered by the UFLL and the APR in a SuicideMissiom that involves one blowing themselves up with a mountain and the orders to shoot themselves after the civlians escape. The player admits in the journal that the situation is nuts but it's the right thing to do.]]

* 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.

* NietzscheWannabe[=/=]{{Ubermensch}}: He quotes Nietzche's "Will to Power" to you at the beginning of the game, stating that adopting it as his personal philosophy has been the only way he's found of making sense of the madness he sees around him in a war-torn world.

* PlayingBothSides: The Jackal doesn't discriminate and sells to all factions in the various civil wars he's been involved in.

* HandicappedBadass: Frank wears a leg brace due to having a power drill driven through his knee in prison, despite this he's as much of a tough fighter as the rest of your merc buddies.

->''"A living being seeks above all to discharge its strength. Nothing else matters. Life itself is will to power."''
-->-- '''The Jackal'''

** His character was heavily inspired by Colonel Kurtz from ''{{Film/ApocalypseNow}}''.

!The APR

!The UFLL

* SemperFi: Was a Gunner Sergeant in USMC force protection before going freelance, and still uses a lot of military lingo in his speech.

* AffablyEvil: He'll press-gang you like all the other lieutenants, but he'll at least be polite (yet annoyed) about it.

* 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.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He hates Voorhees and Kankaras, the former for making side-deals (presumably not adhering to the ConsummateProfessional standards of PrivateMilitaryContractors), and calls the latter inbred.

!The Jackal

* ShroudedInMyth: He has this reputation amongst everyone, both mercenaries and faction leaders. From what little you see of him in action, it's well earned.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The original ''Far Cry'' earned its M rating, but it was more of a straightforward action/sci-fi adventure with a one-man army taking on an entire island full of mercenaries, often cheesy dialogue and voice acting, and mutants created by a mad scientist. ''Far Cry 2'' on the other hand is much more serious and grim, with absolutely none of the sci-fi trappings. Instead, it gives us a grimy and morally grey look at a conflict in an especially war-torn part of Africa, with no real heroes and an oppressive, gritty atmosphere nearly everywhere you go.

* {{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.]]

* YouNoTakeCandle: Like Idromeno, his English is somewhat flawed.