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Characters that are firstly introduced in Metro: Last Light.
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Anna
Anna Sviatoslavovna Mel'nikova
Voiced by:
English: Anna Graves (Last Light, Exodus)
Japanese: Atsuko Tanaka
Russian: Ekaterina Savenkova (Last Light), Varvara Chaban (Exodus)
Miller's daughter, and the Rangers' best sniper.
- 10-Minute Retirement: Between Last Light and Exodus she, along with Artyom, resigns from the Rangers and moves to Exhibition. This doesn't stick as fate isn't done with her and she finds herself back with the Rangers by the end of the first chapter of Exodus. While neither she nor Artyom are "formally" reenlisted into the Order, noone treats her any differently than as if she had never left and she even follows Miller's orders like before.
- Babies Ever After: With Artyom in both endings, although it's not explicitly shown in the good one.
- He still ends up with her in the good ending, as the menu of Redux is set by the time Artyom himself is in his 50s.
- Subverted by both
Word of God and the events of Metro 2035 / Metro Exodus, which reveal the baby to be non-canon.
- Battle Couple: With her husband, Artyom, in Metro Exodus. The two always have each other's backs and make up a good team to boot.
- Boyish Short Hair: Dons practically short hair in all of her appearances.
- Broken Bird: Combination of her father's Domestic Abuse, subsequent overprotectiveness and the time she spent in the Order have served as Anna's Cynicism Catalyst.
- Chickification: Zigzagged. In Exodus, Anna loses all her Ice Queen personality from the previous game and most of her interactions with Artyom are to the point of Sickeningly Sweethearts. However she gets into alot more combat situations then she did in Last Light, and she's no longer a Faux Action Girl like that game's main campaign.
- Cold Sniper: The best one among the Rangers, and isn't too friendly with Artyom at first.
- Crippling Overspecialization: While she is undoubtedly the best sniper for the Rangers, she isn't exactly the best at close-range combat, as proven when Lesnitsky manages to subdue her with ease during the Reds' raid on the Ranger outpost.
- Damsel in Distress: She ends up captured more often than she likes. In Last Light, she's captured and held hostage by Lesnitsky after the attack on the church. And in Exodus, she gets trapped underground, and captured by cannibals.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She initially isn't very friendly to Artyom, only caring about killing the last Dark One. She apologizes to you when you meet her again at the Church.
- Dude Magnet: Played for Drama; Due to being an attractive looking woman in a highly male centric environment, Anna mentions in Metro 2035 that she has been frequently sexually harassed by other Rangers throughout the years.
- Early-Bird Cameo: The woman shown in the menu of the Redux version of 2033 is her.
- Faux Action Girl: Subverted. The main game makes it seem that she's this, but as shown in her level of the Chronicles DLC, she can easily wipe out a pack of Watchmen and a platoon of Nazi stalkers, provided they're at range. In Exodus while still having moments of Damsel in Distress she also does more action and saves Artyom twice.Anna: (through radio) Artyom, your head is in the way.
- Irony: In the second game, she warns Artyom not to stare at her butt while climbing a ladder, claiming he is not worthy of her.
- Happily Married: With Artyom in Exodus.
- Military Brat: She is Miller's daughter, who became really overprotective of her after her mother died.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: She's the only female Ranger, and she's Colonel Miller's daughter.
- Official Couple: With Artyom.
- Progressively Prettier: Compare her appearance
in Last Light to what she looks like in Exodus. - Promoted to Playable: In her namesake level of the Chronicles Pack.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: She is deep in the "honeymoon phase" of her marriage to Arytom by the time of Exodus.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The reason she fell for Artyom was that he was the only relatively normal man who she could found a family with among a group of hardened killers.
- The Smurfette Principle: She is the only female Ranger, the only female main character (besides perhaps Artyom's mother), and beyond that she is the only female shown to go about armed (either as a soldier, or as someone who needs to defend against mutants), which seems a bit odd in a setting this dangerous.
- Someone to Remember Him By: In the bad ending of Last Light.
- Spell My Name With An S: Her name is pronounced as "Anya" in the Russian dub, which is the diminutive of "Anna" in her native language. Both are equally-correct names for Russian women, however.
- Token Romance: Last Light doesn't spend much time developing her and Artyom's relationship and it feels like the two of them just kind of suddenly decide to have sex and fall in love with each other after meeting about three times. This is, however, averted in Metro 2035 where their relationship problems are one of the central plot elements.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In Exodus, she is completely enamored with Artyom and also shows more morals than her Cold Sniper attitude she showed in Last Light let on.
- Undying Loyalty: She is, alongside Letyaga, the only one of Artyom's companions who doesn't betray or abandon him in Metro 2035.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: She is not above using her father as a threat if Artyom is attacked or put a bullet in the enemy's head herself.
Pavel Morozov
Pavel Igorevich Morozov
A Red Line soldier who helps Artyom escape from the Nazi camp early in Last Light. He turns out to be more than just a simple soldier, however...
- Affably Evil: Very friendly towards Artyom, even after betraying him. He's later revealed to actually be very reluctant in betraying and later trying to kill Artyom, as the Baby Dark One reveals.
- Bald of Evil: Drugs and gives Artyom to his superiors for interrogation, later trying to ambush and kill Artyom. He also knowingly serves the Red Line in carrying out virus attacks against innocent people.
- The Casanova: The dancers in Theatre are familiar with him, and you find him in the brothel in Venice.
- Co-Dragons: With Lesnitsky.
- Chummy Commies: In comparison to a lot of his comrades, he comes off as a genuinely nice and likable person. It's even revealed late in the game by the Baby Dark One that he was in fact reluctant to betray Artyom.
- Commissar Cap: He wears one after Artyom is captured and being dragged around Revolution Station.
- Defiant to the End: He goads Artyom into finishing him, refusing to surrender even after multiple shots.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Probably not a literal example, but the vision Artyom has while deciding Pavel's fate features him being dragged into darkness by disembodied hands amongst hellish screams.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Willing to kill many innocents in the Metro for the sake of the Red Line but he won't shoot someone that surrenders even telling Artyom to disregard the drop your weapons instruction since he is to be killed on sight by Korbut's orders. He is also disgusted by Artyom seemingly siccing the baby Dark One on him while he was fine with being stabbed to death.
- Exact Words: He promises Artyom that he'd allow him through Revolution Station. He does keep his promise, albeit by having to betray him and hand him over to his superior Korbut for interrogation.
- Face–Heel Turn: Once you reach Theatre station, he has Artyom captured and brought to Revolution Station.
- Flunky Boss: Starts by sending troops after you during the battle in Red Square, only confronting you directly after they're all dead.
- Foil: To Bourbon in the first game. Both of them are your first major companion who functions as a guide to get to your destination. While Bourbon is a shiftless, grumpy drunkard who almost sacrifices himself to save Artyom, Pavel is a cheerful and consistently helpful man who nonetheless reluctantly betrays Artyom out of blind loyalty to the Red line.
- Friendly Enemy: His biggest character trait. While he betrays Artyom, Pavel didn't expect his superiors to try and execute him, and in fact had hoped Artyom would join the communists. When Artyom confronts him again later, Pavel expresses genuine joy that Artyom survived the interrogation and defeated his ambush, yet still attempts to kill him due to putting his duty above personal relationships. When beaten, he's also happy to die at Artyom's hands, as that means that Artyom survives. The baby Dark One even confirms that Pavel genuinely considers Artyom a true friend.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a large scar near his left eye.
- Hanging Around: One mission before his betrayal requires you to save him from being hanged by the Fourth Reich.
- Just Following Orders: He is this to a T, willing to help with committing horrible atrocities and turning on his friends if so ordered. He makes it clear that he does not enjoy the things he is ordered to do in the slightest, but orders are orders.
- Majorly Awesome: Turns out to be a high-ranking Red Line officer upon Artyom's capture in Revolution Station.
- Meaningful Name: He's named after Pavel "Pavlik" Morozov, a devout Communist boy who reported his father to the Soviet government for illegal activities. Said boy was then murdered by his own family in retaliation. It's a huge red flag for anybody who knows Russian history, since the real Pavel Morozov's story was partly made up and embellished by Communist leaders of the time.
- My Country, Right or Wrong: To the point that he's willing to cooperate in Korbut's plan in using bioweapons in order to bring order and peace to the whole Metro.
- Precision F-Strike: "Suka/сука!", whenever something goes south. Which, being in a Metro game, things often do, a lot.
- Promoted to Playable: In his respective level of the Chronicles Pack.
- Stepford Smiler: He isn't as happy as he shows, the Dark One even feels sadness when he has to fight Artyom despite spending the whole segment taunting as usual. His bonus chapter's intro has him summing up how bad of a day he is having.
- Verbal Tic: Has quite a few. He tends to drop "Tak-tak-tak-tak-tak!" and "Opa!" constantly in his speech.
Führer
Führer
Voiced by:
English: Robin Atkin Downes
Russian: Vladimir Tereshchuk
The unnamed Führer of the Fourth Reich.
- Advertised Extra: In much of the pre-release material, he's depicted as a significant threat to the Rangers and looks to be after the D6 bunker. In the final game, he only plays a part in the beginning and towards the end, both times addressing a crowd of his followers.
- Hypocrite: He preaches racial purity and despises genetic mutations, but it's rumored that his only child is a mutant, and that he's been hiding evidence about that from the public. This rumor is confirmed to be true in Metro 2035.
- No Name Given: Unlike Moskvin, we never learn his name. Metro 2035 reveals his name is Yevgeniy Petrovich.
- Those Wacky Nazis: He's the leader of an entire station of them.
Korbut
General Czeslav Andreyevich Korbut
A Red Line General who's in charge of their army's intelligence bureau.
- Admiring the Abomination: He knows about the surviving Dark One, and he plans on capturing it and raising it to use on his enemies. Bonus points for that same Dark One killing him in the good ending.
- Big Bad: He's the one really in charge of the Red Line, with Moskvin as nothing more than a pawn in his grander scheme.
- The Chessmaster: He skillfully manipulates Moskvin into killing his brother, then uses this as leverage to gain political power. He later has Lesnitsky steal a bioweapon from D6, planning to use it to wipe out most of the Metro's population, then forces Moskvin to go to the Polis Peace Conference as a distraction, while the Reds attack D6.
- Commissar Cap: Wears one in both endings.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: In the first game, the Dark Ones are the main antagonists, who are all mutants, but they are often treated as an Anti Villains. Korbut, on the other hand, is a flesh and blood human with genocidal intentions in his quest for power.
- Dirty Communists: Definitely. When you're willing to use biological weapons and force in order to bring order to the whole Metro, it definitely counts.
- Dragon-in-Chief: He's the one who arranged Maxim Moskvin into power, and is pretty much running the Red Army through blackmailing the former.
- Eviler than Thou: Most officers in the Red Line are Punch-Clock Villain of a sort, and would appear to be more civilized, or at the very least less cruel, when compared to the likes of the Reich. But not Korbut. He is pretty much unambiguously evil in his ways, and his schemes put the Fourth Reich to shame.
- Exact Words: Tells Moskvin that his plan involves no bloodshed. Instead, he decides to use biological weapons at his disposal in order to cause fear and eventual capitulation in the Metro.
- Faux Affably Evil: Korbut puts up a constant air of pleasantry while addressing Artyom or his men, but he makes no attempt to hide his seething contempt for the Reich or Spartans. He is the kind of evil that smiles happily while he tells you what diabolical scheme he has in stores for you, while you could do nothing about it. One of his favourite hobbies is to casually sneer at his helpless foes, as Artyom and Miller could attest to.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a pair of large scratch marks on the left side of his face.
- Killed Off for Real: He dies in both endings of Last Light. Either from the self-destruct sequence of D6 or from the Baby Dark One.
- Mad Scientist: One of his intentions is to capture the Baby Dark One, study it, and then raise it so that he can use it against the enemies of the Red Line.
- Manipulative Bastard: He convinced Moskvin to off his brother, and then uses his knowledge of this to blackmail him into having more power than he should.
- Non-Action Big Bad: As mentioned above, Korbut is more content with pulling strings and having his men do the dirty work for him than actually picking up a Kalash to shoot enemies with.
- Oh, Crap!: In both endings, where he either realizes Artyom is about to blow up D6, or that the Baby Dark One he wanted to capture and use on his enemies is now about to kill him.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His ultimate goal is to kill off most of the Metro population.
- Red Right Hand: His right eye is redded out.
- Take Over the World: Or at least, the entire Metro.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Miller just before he's killed in both endings.
- Token Minority: Korbut is heavily implied to be Polish or Czech, as Czeslav/Чеслав is a very rare name in Russia; it is much more common in Poland (Czesław) and the Czech Republic (Česlav).
- Walking Spoiler: Knowing too much about him reveals that he's the Big Bad and the real one in charge of the Red Line.
Lesnitsky
Lesnitsky
Voiced by:
Japanese: Junpei Morita
A Red Line officer under Korbut who's spying on the Rangers.
- Bald of Evil: Not an inch of hair on his head, and serves under a ruthless regime.
- Co-Dragons: He and Pavel are this to Korbut.
- Double Agent: A Ranger who's secretly providing information to the Red Line.
- The Mole: He's actually providing information on the Rangers to the Reds.
- Rogue Soldier: A rogue Ranger.
- Villains Never Lie: Never once when you meet him does he ever deny his true allegiance.
Maxim Moskvin
Maxim Leonidovich Moskvin
Voiced by:
English: Dmitri Diatchenko
Japanese: Yōsuke Akimoto
Russian: Anatoly Zinovenko
Secretary General of the Red Line and head of the Communist Party.
- Abusive Parents: From his son Leonid's attitude towards him, Moskvin isn't the best father.
- Bald of Evil: Has not an inch of hair on his head, and is the leader of an oppressive regime.
- Cain and Abel: He and his brother Andrey, the previous leader of the Red Line. Turns out Korbut arranged the whole dispute between them, and Maxim clearly regrets doing the deed, as seen during the reveal sequence in his mind.
- Engineered Public Confession: The Baby Dark One, with Artyom's help, makes him reveal Korbut's plans in front of the leaders of Polis, Hanza, and Reich, as well as his status as a pawn.
- Fat Bastard: Is noticeably more portly than most other people in the Metro.
- The Ghost: He is mentioned several times in Metro 2035, but never makes an appearance.
- Good Hair, Evil Hair: Has a Hitler mustache, appropriately enough.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Unlike Korbut, he believes in the "beat the shit out of them" method of interrogating prisoners.
- Heel Realization: After the Baby Dark One enters his mind, he confesses that he poisoned his brother, the previous Secretary General. He also comes clean with Korbut's plans, and the Red Army's true intentions.
- Irony: He's the head of the communist party, yet he has a Hitler mustache. Probably also used to remind the audience that the Red Line and the Reich aren't all that different from each other.
- Puppet King: While it initially appears that he's the one in charge of the Red Line, Korbut starts blackmailing him and persuades Moskvin into allowing him to continue his top-secret operation.
- Unwitting Pawn: To Korbut. Downplayed in while he does agree with the unification of the Metro, and approves of Korbut's plan, he doesn't know the true extent of how far his General is willing to go until it's too late.
The Baby Dark One
The Baby Dark One
A baby Dark One found by Khan just before the events of the second game.
- Adapted Out: Is not mentioned and does not appear to exist in the Metro 2035 novel, which is a direct sequel to Last Light.
- Aura Vision: Like all Dark Ones, he's capable of sensing hostile individuals. He can temporarily give you this ability.
- Big Damn Heroes: In the good ending of Last Light, he and his fellow Dark Ones save Artyom and Miller from the Reds by causing them to fight each other.
- But Now I Must Go: In both endings, he and the other Dark Ones leave, promising to eventually return.
- Deuteragonist: Alongside Anna to Artyom in Last Light, but he is the central focus to the game's main story.
- Intrigued by Humanity: He's curious about how humans act and live.
- Last of His Kind: Presumably of his entire race, until he, Artyom, and Khan find out about the existence of a handful more in the D6 bunker.
- Living MacGuffin: He is sought after by both Artyom/Khan and the Red Line, and becomes central in helping find a solution to the conflict late in the game.
- Morality Pet: He notes and questions your actions, particularly if you choose to kill everything you come across.
- Sole Survivor: Of the missile attack on the Dark One Hive in the Moscow Botanical Garden.
Red Line Sniper
Red Line Sniper
Promotional pre-release image of the Red Line Sniper.
A unnamed Red Line sniper, who is the protagonist of the Faction Pack DLC mission "Sniper Team". His mission is to infiltrate the now-reinforced Black Station and kill all Nazi troops standing in his way.
- Cold Sniper: One of the best in the Red Line, who never speaks a single line during his respective mission, and who manages to kill an impressive number of Reich stalkers.
- The Faceless: His face is never shown, and even if it was shown, it's obscured by a gas mask.
- Hollywood Silencer: The VSSK Vychlop he uses has a built-in silencer that makes almost no noise whatsoever.
- One-Man Army: He manages to wipe out an entire base of heavily-armed Reich troopers with just a handful of weapons. Bonus points for doing all of this silently.
- The Quiet One: Outside of his mission's introductory cutscene, he is never heard speaking.
- Sniper Rifle: He prefers using a modified VSSK Vychlop, a prewar sniper rifle with an integrated silencer.
- Stealth Expert: He has to be, since his mission involves sneaking into a heavily-guarded Nazi base without alerting any of them.
- Villain Protagonist: Played with. He's a member of the Red Line, the main antagonists of the main story of Last Light. However, he isn’t seen actually doing anything explicitly villainous, just fighting an opposing antagonistic group instead of the Rangers.
Hans
Hans
A Shock trooper of the Fourth Reich, and the protagonist of the Faction Pack DLC mission "Heavy Squad". He and a handful of other Reich Shock troopers are tasked with reinforcing the Frontline and repelling a massive Red Line attack.
- BFG: Both the Gatling he starts with and the Hellbreath he uses later in the mission count, as they can kill even Heavy troopers in one hit.
- The Faceless: He's shown wearing a gasmask in the ending cutscene of his mission, so we never manage to get a glimpse of it.
- Gatling Good: One of his weapons is a Gatling, a minigun made from scraps, which he uses to devastating effect on the attacking Red Line soldiers.
- More Dakka: His job is to lay down as much firepower as possible in order to buy time for Nazi reinforcements to arrive.
- One-Man Army: He manages to repel an entire Red Line offensive, including a tank, with the weapons at his disposal.
- Villain Protagonist: Played with. He's a member of the Fourth Reich, arguably one of the most hostile, if not the most hostile faction, in the Metro. However, he isn’t seen actually doing anything villainous, and is actually fighting the main villains of the game itself.
- The Voiceless: Unlike the Red Line sniper, he's never heard speaking, even in the introduction of his respective mission.
Ranger Trainee
Ranger Trainee
A Ranger recruit assigned to the Kshatriya Team, who are tasked with retrieving artifacts from the Great Library.
- Armor Is Useless: Averted. The Heavy Armor that he can purchase protects him from all kinds of damage, even allowing him to tank an attack from a Librarian.
- The Faceless: Unlike Hans nor the Red Line sniper, who at least get shown in third-person, we never get to see this guy looks like.
- New Meat: He's a new recruit aspiring to be part of the Polis Kshatriya.
- Ranger: What he's aspiring to be.
- Took a Level in Badass: During the start of his level, he's merely a raw recruit using subpar equipment. By the end of it, he can wield far more powerful weapons, possess much better suits for exploring the library, and possibly have killed a few dozen librarians.
Spider Lair Stalker
The Stalker
Voiced by: Daniel Gamburg
An unnamed Stalker who, as part of a 3-man team, strives to look for abandoned military bases scattered throughout the Metro.
- Bolivian Army Ending: His respective level ends just as a Watchman is about to pounce on him.
- The Faceless: We never get to see his face during the Spider Lair level.
- Kill It with Fire: His arsenal includes a lighter, incendiary grenades and a flamethrower, all of which he uses to fight back against the spiderbugs infesting the base he's trapped in.
- No Name Given: We never learn his name.
- Out of the Frying Pan: While he manages to successfully escape the spider-infested missile base, once he's on the surface, he's cornered by a pack of Watchmen. It's unknown if he survives.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Stalker team he was part of.
- Uncertain Doom: The last we see of him is when he finally makes it to the surface, just as a Watchman is about to pounce on him.
