History Characters / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlinesHumanAntagonists

* FirstNameBasis: Always designed as "Boris" in the conversations. The only way to discover his surname is to hack the computers in his hostel.

-->''My staff maintains at all times a twenty-four carat smorgasbord of A+ narcotics guaranteed to make the competition's shit seem like a weak cappuccino in comparison. White, green, blues, reds, black - you pick a color. ''
--->-- '''Dennis'''

-->''Me? Oh, I'm just trying to make things a little easier for those who find themselves, erm, disadvantaged. Giving a helping hand, you might say - a leg up. Uh, eh... bloody clever, that one. ''

-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/RobinAtkinDownes

-->''Stupid spoiled American child. I give her so much, and she spits in my face!''

-->'''Fledgling''': What's the catch?\\
'''Venus''': Boris is high-ranked in the Russian Mafia. Is that a problem?\\
'''Fledgling''': I didn't think it would be ''that'' easy[=/=]I have killed worse.

-->''[To the Mandarin] You told me that guy was a nobody! Just what the hell did you get us involved in?''

-->''You and your kind may play mortals for weaklings and fools, and that may be fitting for some, but you underestimate me.''

--> ''"You have shown considerable mental and physical acumen... and I'm quite perplexed as to how something that should be ''dead'' can possess such strong survival skills."''

-->''Hunters: humans who hunt vampires. Most are half-cocked yokels who also say they've been abducted by [=UFOs=]. The real hunters are trained by secret societies, holy orders of the church that have existed since the Middle Ages. Fear - them.''
--->-- '''Bertram Tung'''

-->''As you burn, tell them it was Grünfeld Bach who sent your damned soul to that lake of fire! All agents of Satan shall return to whence they came!''

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* GenerationXerox: Both his grandfather and his father were vampire hunters devoted to bringing down [=LaCroix=], and one dialogue with the Prince implies Bach may have a son who will follow in his father's footsteps.

* BullyingADragon: Besides his capture of a Nosferatu (infamous among Kindred for ''always'' watching after their own), his reaction to the Fledgling entering his office is to insult and threaten you, before obeying the Mandarin's command to shoot, resulting in a massive OhCrap when he realizes the intruder is [[ImmuneToBullets almost unharmed by bullets]].

* PaperThinDisguise: Velvet snarkily comments about how naming yourself ''Chastity'' when you're posing as a stripper is "a dead giveaway", and Boyle briefly comments about how she apparently is uncomfortable with doing things to the clients. Moreover, she got find out by Velvet because she was hiding her Katana ''at her working place''. Clearly, she wasn't doing a very good job at disguising her true identity.

!Ordinary criminals

!Fu Syndicate

!The Society of Leopold

* PaperThinDisguise: Velvet snarkily comments about how naming yourself ''Chastity'' when you're posing as a stripper is "a dead giveaway", and Boyle briefly comments about how she apparently is uncomfortable with doing things to the clients. Clearly, she wasn't doing a very good job at disguising her true identity.

* MagicAIsMagicA: His experiments try to find patterns behind the weaknesses and resistances of Kindred, testing the Fledgling with [[WeakenedByTheLight U.V. lights]] (which doesn't work, as the sunlight weakness is mystical in nature), [[DeadlyGas a room full of carbon monoxyde]] (Kindred don't breathe), [[FrickinLaserBeams laser beams]], [[DeadlyRotaryFan rotating blades]] and [[ElectricTorture electricity]] (all effective, but the Fledgling either dodges the obstacles or just shoots the machine until they stop working), [[HolyBurnsEvil an assistant holding a cross]] (which only works if the wielder has [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve True Faith]]) and [[EliteMooks an heavily-armored team of gunmen]] (hardly an obstacle at this point of the game). The final test is simply [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], at which point the Fledgling has had enough and escapes by exploding the fuel tanks.

* MagicAIsMagicA: His experiments try to find patterns behind the weaknesses and resistances of Kindred, testing the Fledgling with [[WeakenedByTheLight U.V. lights]] (which doesn't work, as the sunlight weakness is mystical in nature), [[DeadlyGas a room full of carbon monoxyde]] (Kindred don't breathe), [[FrickinLaserBeams laser beams]], [[DeadlyRotaryFan rotating blades]] and [[ElectricTorture electricity]] (all effective, but the Fledgling either dodges the obstacles or just shoots the machine until they stop working), [[HolyBurnsEvil a cross]] (which only works if the wielder has [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve True Faith]]) and [[EliteMooks an heavily-armored team of gunmen]] (hardly an obstacle at this point of the game). The final test is simply [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], at which point the Fledgling has had enough and escape by exploding the fuel tanks.

* MagicAIsMagicA: His experiments try to find patterns behind the weaknesses and resistances of Kindred, testing the Fledgling with [[WeakenedByTheLight U.V. lights]] (which doesn't work, as the sunlight weakness is mystical in nature), [[DeadlyGas a room full of carbon monoxyde]] (Kindred don't breathe), [[FrickinLaserBeams laser beams]], [[DeadlyRotaryFan rotating blades]] and [[ElectricTorture electricity]] (all effective, but the Fledgling either dodges the obstacles or just shoots the machine until they stop working), [[HolyBurnsEvil a cross]] (which only works if the wielder has [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve True Faith]]) and an heavily-armored team of gunmen (hardly an obstacle at this point of the game). The final test is simply [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], at which point the Fledgling has had enough and escape by exploding the fuel tanks.

* MagicAIsMagicA: His experiments try to find patterns behind the weaknesses and resistances of Kindred, testing the Fledgling with [[WeakenedByTheLight U.V. lights]] (which doesn't work, as the sunlight weakness is mystical in nature), [[ElectricTorture electricity]] (effective, but the Fledgling just shoots the machine until they stop working), [[HolyBurnsEvil a cross]] (which only works if the wielder has [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve True Faith]]) and an heavily-armored team of gunmen (hardly an obstacle at this point of the game). The final test is simply [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], at which point the Fledgling has had enough and escape by exploding the fuel tanks.

!The Society of Leopold
[[folder:In general]]

-->''Hunters: humans who hunt vampires. Most are half-cocked yokels who also say they've been abducted by [=UFOs=]. The real hunters are trained by secret societies, holy orders of the church that have existed since the Middle Ages. Fear - them.''
--->-- '''Bertram Tung'''

A group of catholic vampire hunters. They are the successors of the Inquisition.

!Others

[[folder:The Mandarin]]
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-> '''Voiced by:''' Keone Young

-->''You and your kind may play mortals for weaklings and fools, and that may be fitting for some, but you underestimate me.''

The apparent CEO of the Fu Syndicate, he's been manipulating the Chinatown Tong for his own dark purposes.
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* BadBoss: Quite happy to let the PC kill his underlings if they displease him, and even happier to use his security guards and mercenary soldiers as experimental guinea pigs. His EstablishingCharacterMoment also involves him tricking his criminal associate Johnny into discovering your vampiric nature, just to test if you will have him KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.
** He implies that he himself is on the receiving end of this trope; see the SuicideByCop entry below.
* BaddieFlattery: Begins complimenting the PC in a very condescending way in the latter stages of the experiment.
--> ''"You have shown considerable mental and physical acumen... and I'm quite perplexed as to how something that should be ''dead'' can possess such strong survival skills."''
* BullyingADragon: Makes the mistake of experimenting on Kindred at least twice, with disastrous effects. In the first case, the test subject is Barabus, which gets Gary's attention; in the second case, ''you're'' the test subject, and it costs him his life.
* TheChessmaster: Lays a clever trap in Chinatown.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: His company is in the pocket of [[spoiler: the Kuei-jin.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Ming Xiao]]
* EvilOldFolks: From what little you can see of him, he clearly has white hair and is at least middle aged.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He compliments you regularly while trying to kill you, but once it becomes apparent that his experiment has gone awry, it all goes out the window.
* MadScientist: He's studying vampires and their rumoured weaknesses [[spoiler:at Ming-Xiao's request.]]
* MagicAIsMagicA: His experiments try to find patterns behind the weaknesses and resistances of Kindred, testing the Fledgling with [[WeakenedByTheLight U.V. lights]] (which doesn't work, as the sunlight weakness is mystical in nature), [[ElectricTorture electricity]] (effective, but the Fledgling just shoots the machine until they stop working), [[HolyBurnsEvil a cross]] (which only works if the wielder has [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve True Faith]]) and an heavily-armored team of gunmen (hardly an obstacle at this point of the game). The final test is simply [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], at which point the Fledgling has had enough and escape by exploding the fuel tanks.
* MeaningfulName: "Mandarin" originally means a bureaucrat scholar in Imperial China. This Mandarin [[spoiler:serves under the leader of the Chinese vampires in [=LA=] and researches her Kindred enemies for her.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Only refers to himself as the Mandarin, and you never get to learn his real name.
* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Spends most of his interactions with you behind screens or glass. Once you fight him in person, he goes down like a chump.
* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/FuManchu''. Also possibly to another character inspired by Fu Manchu, The Marvel Comics character also named Mandarin, who conducts illegal and illicit dealings from behind the persona of a businessman, and whose real name is also kept a secret.
* SinisterShades: That double as SunglassesAtNight and indoors.
* SmugSnake: His arrogance, to put it bluntly, is not well-founded.
* SuicideByCop: When it becomes obvious his attempt to experiment on you has gone awry, he choses to face you in a last stand despite knowing very well he doesn't stand a chance, arguing that you killing him will be mercy compared to whatever [[spoiler:Ming-Xiao]] [[YouHaveFailedMe has in store for him]].
* WeHaveReserves: Thinks nothing of feeding a squad of {{Mooks}} to you for research purposes.
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!Gangbangers and other criminals
[[folder:Dennis and his gang]]

[[folder:The Society in general]]

[[folder:Johnny]]
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-->''[To the Mandarin] You told me that guy was a nobody! Just what the hell did you get us involved in?''

The current leader of the Chinatown Tong, to whom you are directed by Zhao in order to find Barabus.

* JerkAss: The little we see of him suggests he isn't a nice person.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Invoked; the Mandarin tricks him into shooting you and finding out you're ImmuneToBullets, thus revealing your supernatural nature and forcing you to apply this trope to him.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Like Boris, he ''could'' have been a fairly genuine threat in a more mundane context, but is unlucky enough to find himself in the middle of a conflict between vampires and a MadScientist, leaving him little more than a disposable pawn who rapidly gets killed.
* SinisterShades: Wears sunglasses to go with his gangster look.
* TheStoner: You find him in his office taking drugs.
* UnwittingPawn: He turns out to have been a mere pawn to the Mandarin, who was using him for his own goals and promptly disposes of him once he is of no more use.
* WeHardlyKnewYou: You only get a few lines of dialogue with him before the Mandarin pulls out his BatmanGambit to get you to kill him.

[[folder:Stanley Gimble]]
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-> '''Voiced by:''' Michael Gough

-->''Me? Oh, I'm just trying to make things a little easier for those who find themselves, erm, disadvantaged. Giving a helping hand, you might say - a leg up. Uh, eh... bloody clever, that one. ''

A dealer of prosthetics and medical supplies living out of a basement studio in Santa Monica. He's actually a serial killer, who has a sinister habit of kidnapping people (apparently luring them by offering payment in exchange for modelling) and cutting them up piece by piece to have a better understanding of human anatomy.

* ArtificialLimbs: His left arm.
* AssholeVictim: If the "Replanting a Lily" quest is active, the unofficial patch adds the option of dealing with him (and resolving said quest) by persuading him to go see Vandal, who succeeds in killing him and harvesting his blood.
* EarlyBirdBoss: His sidequest is pretty early in the game, and he'll give you a run for your money if you haven't gotten settled yet.
* EvilBrit: His accent and some mannerisms, like dropping a "bloody" during dialogue, implies he is British.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He is a genuinely bright and cheery man, right up until he's lured you into his kill room.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: He fights you with a mutilated arm, which was quite possibly taken off of the bounty that Carson was after.
* HandicappedBadass: To be able to fully understand what having a prosthetic limb involves, he cut his left arm and replaced it by a prosthetic one. It doesn't really make him weaker during his boss fight.
* MuggingTheMonster: Luring you into his lair wasn't his brightest move, though he was hardly to know what he was dealing with.
* NightmareFetishist: Along with his love of prosthetics and amputation, Gimble actually finds the Malkavian speech patterns quite charming.
* SerialKiller: Likes to cut off limbs.
* SkippableBoss: With the unofficial patch, you can trick him into walking straight into Vandal's trap, bypassing the fight with him entirely.
* StepfordSmiler: Under that cheerful, smiling exterior is a merciless serial killer.

!Gangbangers

* HyperspaceArsenal: She somehow manages to hide a ''katana'' in her {{Stripperiffic}} stripper outfit.

!!Human Antagonists

[[folder:Stanley Gimble]]
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-> '''Voiced by:''' Michael Gough

-->''Me? Oh, I'm just trying to make things a little easier for those who find themselves, erm, disadvantaged. Giving a helping hand, you might say - a leg up. Uh, eh... bloody clever, that one. ''

A dealer of prosthetics and medical supplies living out of a basement studio in Santa Monica. He's actually a serial killer, who has a sinister habit of kidnapping people (apparently luring them by offering payment in exchange for modelling) and cutting them up piece by piece to have a better understanding of human anatomy.

* ArtificialLimbs: His left arm.
* AssholeVictim: If the "Replanting a Lily" quest is active, the unofficial patch adds the option of dealing with him (and resolving said quest) by persuading him to go see Vandal, who succeeds in killing him and harvesting his blood.
* EarlyBirdBoss: His sidequest is pretty early in the game, and he'll give you a run for your money if you haven't gotten settled yet.
* EvilBrit: His accent and some mannerisms, like dropping a "bloody" during dialogue, implies he is British.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He is a genuinely bright and cheery man, right up until he's lured you into his kill room.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: He fights you with a mutilated arm, which was quite possibly taken off of the bounty that Carson was after.
* HandicappedBadass: To be able to fully understand what having a prosthetic limb involves, he cut his left arm and replaced it by a prosthetic one. It doesn't really make him weaker during his boss fight.
* MuggingTheMonster: Luring you into his lair wasn't his brightest move, though he was hardly to know what he was dealing with.
* NightmareFetishist: Along with his love of prosthetics and amputation, Gimble actually finds the Malkavian speech patterns quite charming.
* SerialKiller: Likes to cut off limbs.
* SkippableBoss: With the unofficial patch, you can trick him into walking straight into Vandal's trap, bypassing the fight with him entirely.
* StepfordSmiler: Under that cheerful, smiling exterior is a merciless serial killer.

[[folder:The Society of Leopold]]

-->''Hunters: humans who hunt vampires. Most are half-cocked yokels who also say they've been abducted by [=UFOs=]. The real hunters are trained by secret societies, holy orders of the church that have existed since the Middle Ages. Fear - them.''
--->-- '''Bertram Tung'''

A group of catholic vampire hunters. They are the successors of the Inquisition.

[[folder:Johnny]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johnny_47.png]]

-->''[To the Mandarin] You told me that guy was a nobody! Just what the hell did you get us involved in?''

The current leader of the Chinatown Tong, to whom you are directed by Zhao in order to find Barabus.

* JerkAss: The little we see of him suggests he isn't a nice person.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Invoked; the Mandarin tricks him into shooting you and finding out you're ImmuneToBullets, thus revealing your supernatural nature and forcing you to apply this trope to him.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Like Boris, he ''could'' have been a fairly genuine threat in a more mundane context, but is unlucky enough to find himself in the middle of a conflict between vampires and a MadScientist, leaving him little more than a disposable pawn who rapidly gets killed.
* SinisterShades: Wears sunglasses to go with his gangster look.
* TheStoner: You find him in his office taking drugs.
* UnwittingPawn: He turns out to have been a mere pawn to the Mandarin, who was using him for his own goals and promptly disposes of him once he is of no more use.
* WeHardlyKnewYou: You only get a few lines of dialogue with him before the Mandarin pulls out his BatmanGambit to get you to kill him.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mandarin]]
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-> '''Voiced by:''' Keone Young

-->''You and your kind may play mortals for weaklings and fools, and that may be fitting for some, but you underestimate me.''

The apparent CEO of the Fu Syndicate, he's been manipulating the Chinatown Tong for his own dark purposes.
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[[]]

The current leader of the Chinatown Tong, who you are directed to by Zhao in order to find Barabus.

* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Invoked; the Mandarin tricks him into shooting you and finding out you're ImmuneToBullets, thus revealing your supernatural nature and forcing you to apply this trope on him.

* UnwittingPawn: He turns out to have been a mere pawn to the Mandarin, who was using him for his own goal and promptly dispose of him once he is of no more use.
* WeHardlyKnewYou: You only get a few lines of dialogues with him before the Mandarin pulls out his BatmanGambit to get you to kill him.

* BadBoss[=/=]WeHaveReserves: Quite happy to let the PC kill his underlings if they displease him, and even happier to use his security guards and mercenary soldiers as experimental guinea pigs. His EstablishingCharacterMoment also involves him tricking his criminal associate Johnny into discovering your vampiric nature, just to test if you will have him KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.

--> You have shown considerable mental and physical acumen... and I'm quite perplexed as to how something that should be ''dead'' can possess such strong survival skills.
* BullyingADragon: Makes the mistake of experimenting on Kindred at least twice, with disastrous effects. In the first case, the test subject is Barabus - which gets Gary's attention; the second case, ''you're'' the test subject, and it costs him his life.

* ShoutOut: To Literature/FuManchu.
** And possibly another character inspired by Fu Manchu, The Marvel Comics character also named Mandarin. Who much like this character had adopted a businessman persona, while still attempting illegal and illicit things behind the scenes. His real name is also kept a secret.

* SuicideByCop: When it becomes obvious his attempt to experiment on you has gone awry, he choses to face you in a last stand despite knowing very well he doesn't stand chance, arguing that you killing him will be mercy compared to whatever [[spoiler:Ming-Xiao]] [[YouHaveFailedMe has in store for him]].