History Characters / VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlinesHumanAntagonists

* {{Stripperiffic}}: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{Justified|Trope}}, as she's posing as a stripper.

* JerkAss: Venus describes him in less-than-flattering terms, and when you actually meet him he wastes no time backing up her claim.

* JerkAss: The little we see of him suggests he isn't a nice person.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: A rare criminal variation. If you come offering to buy explosives from him, he'll happily sell you the Astrolite he has on hand. However, if you bring up the subject of Astrolite before he does, then Dennis gets suspicious as that's not an item many people know he sells, and unless you can do some fast-talking, he'll turn hostile. It's implied he sicced his thugs on Mercurio for this very reason.

* 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 monoxide]] (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 machines until they stop working), [[HolyBurnsEvil an assistant holding a cross]] (which only works if the wielder has [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve True Faith]]) and [[EliteMooks a 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.

* KickTheDog: According to EnemyChatter, he once killed a fellow hunter for refusing to follow orders. He also has no problem kidnapping a completely innocent archeologist who knows nothing about the Masquerade and keeping him prisoner in bad conditions just so he can use him as a bait to lure [=LaCroix=]. He apparently wasn't even ''feeding'' the poor man.

[[folder:Johnny]]

* MuggingTheMonster: 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]].

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: While the game in no way minimizes the largely negative impact on the setting, the Society always seems to target the ''least'' threatening, dangerous vampires for extermination. To illustrate, the only two vampires beside yourself they are seen approaching are Ash and Velvet, respectively a DeathSeeker who hates his vampiric existence and a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire who actively makes effort to not kill anyone. Both run legitimate businesses and don't seem to have many skeletons in their closets.

* KickTheDog: According to EnemyChatter, he once killed a fellow hunter for refusing to follow orders. He also has no problem kidnapping a completely innocent archeologist who knows nothing about the Masquerade and keeping him prisonner in bad conditions just so he can use him as a bait to lure [=LaCroix=].

* DirtyHarriet: Deconstructed; her attempt to pose as a stripper to approach Velvet goes terribly due to her making a poor impersonation, and she is spotted fairly fast.

* 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 monoxide]] (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 machines 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.

->''"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."''

-->-- '''Dennis'''

* ColdSniper: His BossFight begins as a SniperDuel.

->''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. ''

A drug dealer, and the leader of a small group of thugs that can be found above Santa Monica's beach. Mercurio tried to buy explosives from him to destroy a Sabbat warehouse, but Dennis double-crossed him. No matter how the quest of retrieving the explosives is completed by the PC, Dennis and his gang will eventually meet a sticky end.

->''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. ''

* 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.

* SerialKiller: Likes to cut off limbs.

->''Order a pizza? ORDER A PIZZA? Where they gonna deliver it, numbnuts? Thirteen abandoned warehouse full of kill on sight hot heads way?''

* AssholeVictim: He ''will'' die regardless of your actions, either killed by you while slaughtering your way through the Warehouse to place the Astrolite or blowing up along with the building if you sneak your way pass him. And based on what you heard of his discussion with his men and girlfriend, he pretty much deserved it.

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

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

* WeHardlyKnewYou: You only get a few lines of dialogue with him before the Mandarin pulls out his BatmanGambit to get you to kill him.

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

->''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.''

* BaldOfEvil[=/=]BeardOfEvil: Low members of the Society have both shaved heads and goatees, though how evil they are is debatable.

* AllThereInTheManual: Players unfamiliar with the old World of Darkness might be wondering why this puny human has the ability to blind you with holy light and take superhuman amounts of punishment after Smiling Jack told you that religious symbols were useless against you. This is actually an application of True Faith, an extremely rare and powerful trait among the most fanatical hunters that allows their holy symbols to hold genuine power.
* BadBoss: Some of his followers will comment privately that he seems [[EveryoneHasStandards too extreme]] and obsessed with hunting vampires (especially [=LaCroix=]), to the point that he's been known to kill those who refuse to follow his orders.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Faith really ''does'' shield him.

* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Bach kidnaps an archaeologist with knowledge of the sarcophagus, hoping this will lure out [=LaCroix=] himself. The PC is somewhat bewildered at this, and can ask Grünfeld what the hell made him think [=LaCroix=] - by Grünfeld's own account, an EvilOverlord, and by every Los Angeles vampire's judgment, a DirtyCoward - would ''personally'' ever attend to a matter like this. Bach isn't too fazed by the admonition, stating that in such a case he'll just have to [[KillEmAll keep killing the prince's minions]] until [=LaCroix=] has no choice but to show his face.
** Possibly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in how [=LaCroix=] was responsible for killing Grunfeld's Grandfather and father personally, so it would make sense that he would expect [=LaCroix=] to come after him next or to face him personally at some point. He'd possibly rather draw him out than to face him on his own terms, which still delves back into the trope.

* LargeHam: All the time.
* LightEmUp: Can use his faith to create a burst of pure light to blind you.
* LoadBearingBoss[=/=]TakingYouWithMe: After being vanquished by the player character, he detonates some explosives in the underground, causing the cave of the Society of Leopold to begin to collapse.
* NotQuiteDead: After his apparent demise, he stands up one more time and pull a TakingYouWithMe[=/=]LoadBearingBoss on you.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Tries to do this with you and Johansen.]]
* VampireHunter: His role.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as she's posing as a stripper.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: They want to wipe out the supernatural creatures which prey on mankind, a laudable goal within the context of vampires like [[BodyHorror Andrei the Tzimisce]] or [[ManipulativeBastard Sebastian [=LaCroix=]]]. The only problem is that they view ''all'' supernatural creatures as servants of Satan to be exterminated, even the most harmless, and are willing to go to horrific extremes to see them destroyed.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: While the game in no way minimizes the largely negative impact on the setting, the Society always seems to target the ''least'' threatening, dangerous vampires for extermination. To illustrate, the only two vampires beside yourself they are seen approaching are Ash and Velvet, respectively a DeathSeeker who hates his vampiric existence and a friendly woman who dislikes killing. Both run legitimate businesses and don't seem to have many skeletons in their closets.

The leader of the gangbangers guarding a Warehouse owned by the Sabbat. The Fledgling's first mission is to blow up said warehouse.

* AssholeVictim: He ''will'' die regardless of your actions, either killed by you while slaughtering your way through the Warehouse to place the Astrolite or blowing up along with the building if you sneak your way pass him. And based on what you heard of his discussion with his men and wife, he pretty much deserved it.

* BastardBoyfriend: You can catch him calling his wife, which ends into an argument with him insulting and threatening to beat her up.

* WeHardlyKnewYou: All you get from him is a short dialogue you can listen to between him and his men if you don't rush too quick; he then either gets killed in your fight with the thugs, or dies in the explosion of the warehouse.

* AssholeVictim: Let's just say even players who prefer to play as nice vampires are unlikely to feel sorry for having to kill him.

* InformedAttribute: Venus refers to him as fat when insulting him, however his character model is built roughly the same as any other average male character in the game.

* 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.

* WhatTheHellAreYou: He never gets the opportunity to understand the Fledgling's nature before you kill him.

* 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.

* 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), [[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 machines 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.

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: While the game in no way minimizes the largely negative impact on the setting, the Society always seems to target the ''least'' threatening, dangerous vampires for extermination. To illustrate, the only two vampires beside yourself they are seen approaching are Ash and Velvet, respectively a DeathSeeker who hates his vampiric existence and a friendly woman who dislikes killing.

[[folder:Marcus]]

* AssholeVictim: He *will* die regardless of your actions, either killed by you while slaughtering your way through the Warehouse to place the Astrolite or blowing up along with the building if you sneak your way pass him. And based on what you heard of his discussion with his men and wife, he pretty much deserved it.

Not all threats in Los Angeles are supernatural creatures or scheming vampires; as you go through the game, you get to meet plenty of mundane, ordinary criminals just out to get money. They rarely, if ever, represent a threat to your character, and can usually be dealt with easily enough.

[[folder:Boris Chekov]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RobinAtkinDownes

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

A Russian mobster. He lent money to Venus for the Confession Club and is awaiting her to pay him back. Venus gives the player character the task to kill him.