Tropes for Jimmy Patterson and Colonel Hargrove can be found on the main Character page.
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Allies
Ranger Captain
- Expy: Of Captain John Miller from Saving Private Ryan. Like Miller, he's a Ranger Captain who's forced to lead the other members of his battalion in clearing out the German beach defenses at Omaha. Heck, the Captain even wears the same uniform, and wields an M1A1 Thompson just like Miller does.
- No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.
- Ranger: He's an officer in the 2nd Ranger Battalion.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To the unnamed Ranger Captain and Captain Ramsey from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, to the point of even having the same voice actor and sounding the same as the former.
Master Sergeant Kelso
- A Father to His Men: Values the safety of his men as he asks Patterson to help liberate them.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: As an elite British Paratrooper, he and his men play a significant role in the Arnhem levels.
- It's Raining Men: He's a member of the 1st Airborne Division, and had dropped into the Netherlands alongside his men just prior to Patterson's arrival.
- Manly Facial Hair: A rather pronounced one as an Officer and a Gentleman.
- Mauve Shirt: It's possible for him to get killed, but he's more developed than the rest of his squadron.
- Sergeant Rock: And a paratrooper to boot.
Dutch Resistance
Clockwise from Top Left: Unnamed Dutch Communications Officer, Dutch Informant, and Dutch Woman at Window
Various unnamed members of the Dutch Resistance, who aid Lt. Patterson against the German Occupation Forces garrisoned within their country.- Communications Officer: One of them serves as a radiowoman inside a German-occupied manor house, relaying information to both the OSS and her fellow resistance members via the radio.
- La Résistance: They are members of the Dutch Resistance, who oppose the German occupation of their country by spying on them and providing the Allied Forces, including Patterson, with any help that they can provide.
- The Mole: The Dutch Resistance member operating the radio in the manor house is mentioned in briefings to be working as a housekeeper in order to keep tabs on the German officers stationed there. She helps Patterson by providing him with ammunition, medical supplies, the location where Gerritt is imprisoned, and a way around the mansion.
- No Name Given: Their names are never mentioned nor given.
- Red Shirt: All of them, given that they only play minor roles and their final fates are unknown.
Gerritt
- Distressed Dude: He's held captive in a mansion in "Operation Repunzel", and you're tasked to save him.
- Made of Iron: He was pushed from a two story building into a haystack and appears fine. Must have some Ezio genes in him.
- Non-Action Guy: After being rescued, he doesn't pick up any firearms and fight alongside Patterson, with the latter having to escort him and help him escape.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in a single mission. However, if it weren't for his actions in uncovering German intelligence, the full details of the Ho.IX project would remain unknown to the Allies, and Patterson would not have been sent to stop Sturmgeist and his Evil Plan. Potentially, the plane itself would have entered mass production, inflicting heavy casualties on US bomber formations, and Sturmgeist himself could possibly have supervised and funded more wunderwaffen.
- Token Minority: He's implied to be the only American member amongst the Dutch Resistance members, given his American accent. Justified, due to him likely being an OSS agent attached to them.
Fox
- Badass Driver: He manages to drive Patterson straight through heavily guarded areas of Kleveburg. Sadly, these skills don't save him when he's killed by a German Panzerschreck.
- Deadpan Snarker: Not towards Patterson, but he has his occasional quip while driving around the city.Fox: Why there's not a straight street in Europe, I'll never understand!
- Killed Off for Real: Meets his end when his truck is destroyed by a German Panzerschreck.
Axis
Haupsturmführer Rudolf Ulbricht von Sturmgeist
- Aristocrats Are Evil: He's a German Baron, who also happens to be a high-ranking officer in the SS. What's more, he's personally funding and overseeing development of wonderweapons that could potentially pose a significant threat to the Allies.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: As you fight him in Gotha, he is a very dangerous man who will shrug off a few shots.
- Bald of Evil: Balding, and a very fanatic Nazi.
- BFG: Uses an StG-44 as his weapon.
- Big Bad: Of Frontline, being the man behind a top-secret Luftwaffe project to win back air superiority over German skies.
- Commissar Cap: Has worn one of these early in the game, alongside his coat, which helps to indicate his status as a high-ranking officer in the SS. He ends up losing both it and the coat by the end.
- Cornered Rattlesnake: He's always given you the slip throughout the game. Though when trapped in the bombing at Gotha, he chooses to fight.
- Defiant to the End: He'll continue to fight guns blazing and fanatically guard the Ho.IX until Patterson takes him out.
- Evil Old Folks: His white hair and wrinkled face shows you he's no spring chicken.
- Evil Sounds Deep: As a high-ranking Nazi officer, he fittingly has a deep, intimidating, and commanding voice compared to his men.
- Final Boss: He's the final threat that Patterson must take out in order to steal the Ho.IX prototype.
- Flunky Boss: Zigzagged. He's surrounded by a horde of other enemies, which are of a greater threat than he is if you don't use the Bazooka. Sturmgeist himself still packs a punch and has a lot more health than his minions.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His last name translates to "Storm Ghost".
- Nazi Nobleman: A German Baron, and a highly infuential officer in the Algemeine-SS and Luftwaffe.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: He's responsible for the funding and development of a brand-new prototype jet fighter for the Luftwaffe.
- The Von Trope Family: One of the many darker examples, as he's a German Aristocrat and ardent Nazi with a "von" in his name.
German Chef
A German military cook that Patterson encounters regularly throughout the game.
- Chef of Iron: Obviously. Despite being in an ostensibly non-combat role, he can give Patterson a good fight, being able to inflict heavy damage on top of actually being more somewhat more durable than his German soldier allies.
- Clothing Damage/Dented Iron: His chef's uniform starts out clean, but gets bloodier and more torn after each encounter with Jimmy.
- Determinator: Unlike most Germans that Patterson faced, the chef didn't die straight away. His first defeat just made him mad; it took, overall, four tries for Jimmy to finally kill him.
- Evil Chef: He's a chef who's part of the German Military, and won't hesitate to attempt to kill Patterson upon encountering him each time.
- Flechette Storm: He'll constantly lob knives at Patterson during all of his encounters with the OSS agent.
- Four Is Death: He's finally killed in his fourth encounter with Jimmy.
- Killed Off for Real: Meets his end in Gotha.
- Made of Iron: He fought Jimmy Patterson on four separate occasions. Each time, he received near-fatal wounds; three of those times, he not only survived, but recovered quickly enough to go right back to cooking without signs of long-term injury. And if that wasn't enough, he also survived U-4902's demolition and foundering in Lorient's shipyard, as well as the destruction of Emmerich's train station in the RAF's bombing run, both events happening minutes after he was shot.
- Unique Enemy: He's the only hostile chef encountered, and the only enemy who will throw knives at Patterson.
- Unluckily Lucky: Has the misfortune of being shot by Patterson four times, and caught in two other life-threatening situations as well... and the fortune of surviving most of them.
