Various threats to the USA and world peace the Echelon organizations have to deal with, be it rogue politicians or military, terrorist groups who get their hands on high-tech weapons or nefarious corporations.
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Nikoladze's Network
Nikoladze
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Vyacheslav Grinko
Vyacheslav Grinko
Voiced by: Maksim Osadchiy-Korytkovskiy
Appears in: Splinter Cell
"Damnation! The Americans have taken the basement! I want all available men armed to converge on the basement! We'll kill them all!"
An ex-Spetsnaz Russian mercenary who works as President Nikoladze's right hand man.
- Bald of Evil: He has either a "parachutist" haircut or a balding, and he's both brutal and sadistic.
- Boss Battle: He personally shows up to deal with Fisher at the end of the Abattoir mission after Fisher saved the American and Chinese hostages from waves of mooks.
- The Dragon: Nikoladze's main enforcer.
- The Dreaded: His men are scared shitless of him and will always compare him to a Devil.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: He was in the Spetsnaz (Russian Special Forces) before going mercenary.
- Former Regime Personnel: He started his career in the Soviet military.
- The Mafiya: A lieutenant of it.
- Mook Lieutenant: He's the chief of Nikoladze's mercenaries.
- Private Military Contractors: He works as a mercenary and Nikoladze hired his services.
- Psycho for Hire: His mook mercenaries tend to talk about how cruel and brutal he is.
- Renegade Russian: Vicious, works as a hired gun, and, of course, Russian.
- Retired Badass: He was a Spetsnaz once.
Philip Masse
Philip Masse
"Shoo, you incompetent buffoons! Crap, I can't think surrounded by you drooling, troglodyte communists!"
Voiced by: Marcel Jeannin
Appears in: Splinter Cell
A Canadian computer genius hired by President Nikoladze to keep the world blind to Georgia's activities, Masse is the man who instigated the Georgian Information Crisis by using his "Masse Kernels" to disrupt information networks.
- Chekhov's Gunman: His "Masse Kernels" show up in the hands of Displace International in the third game, where they are ultimately destroyed for good.
- The Cracker: Instigated the "Information Crisis" that the conflict in the original Splinter Cell is named for.
- Evil Counterpart: To Grimdottir. They're both hackers who perform similar functions in their respective organisations; Masse willingly plunges several countries into crisis for money, while Grim works to reverse the destruction caused by it.
- Evil Genius: He singlehandedly threw the entire America into chaos with his Information warware skills alone.
- Insufferable Genius: He's a genius hacker who revolutionized Information warfare and he's also a total Jerkass, who treats everyone around him like utter garbage.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: He disappears entirely halfway through the main game, and only gets his comeuppance 2 months after Nikoladze's death.
- Non-Action Guy: He's just The Cracker and has no fighting capability. When Fisher finds him in the Kola Cell mission, he runs away for cover in fear.
- Post-Climax Confrontation: Fisher tracks him and kills him after assassinating Nikoladze.
- Post-End Game Content: The PC and Xbox versions of the first Splinter Cell include three additional missions after the Presidential Palace one. The first of them has Fisher infiltrating an abandoned factory near Severomorsk in the Kola peninsula to find Masse, kill him and retrieve his algorithms.
General Kong Feirong
General Kong Feirong
"Chinese Special Forces are coming for me. I want them to find a corpse. I will not be a key unlocking the way to peace with the Americans."
Voiced by: Russell Yuen
Appears in: Splinter Cell
A rogue high-ranking officer of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) who allies himself with Nikoladze. He operates from the Chinese embassy in Rangoon, Myanmar.
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign: His name. The script assumes "Feirong" is the surname, but anyone with a passing knowledge of Mandarin will know "Kong" is the surname and Feirong is the given name. Even moreso given that in Mandarin, surnames that are longer than one syllable are unusual.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: After Nikoladze deserts him, he tries to flee the scene only to have his plans foiled by Fisher; anticipating the arrival of Chinese special forces, he proceeds to poison himself by drinking a bottle of tainted alcohol rather than face arrest.
- Renegade Russian: Chinese version, as in an army general from a Communist regime who goes rogue and threatens world peace.
- Rogue Soldier: A high-ranking officer who leads a renegade faction of the PLA.
- Spiteful Suicide: Feirong attempts to do this after Fisher foils his plans, claiming he does not want there to be peace between the United States and China. It doesn't work out for Feirong, as Fisher is still able to obtain evidence that proves Feirong was acting without approval from the Chinese government. Feirong still dies, though.
- Taking You with Me: He murders several of his own men who tried to disarm him when he proceeds to poison himself to death.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Nikoladze flees Myanmar and leaves Feirong to fend for himself when Third Echelon closes in on them. Feirong does not react well to this, and is left at the mercy of Fisher who's uncovered their alliance.
Operation Pandora Tomorrow
Suhadi Sadono
Suhadi Sadono
Voiced by: David Kaye (English), Jean-Pierre Michaël (European French)
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
The leader of an East Timorese-based revolutionary/terrorist group called "Darah Dan Doa" ("Blood and Prayer"), Suhadi Sadono is one of the two members of the Big Bad Duumvirate in the second game.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Despite not displaying any remarkable combat skills previously, when you go up against him at the end of the game he has crazy good aim and can kill Sam with one shot from his pistol. You're not supposed to fight him directly.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Norman Soth.
- Cigar Chomper: Several videos and cinematics show him with a cigar in his mouth.
- Dead Man's Switch: His "Pandora Tomorrow" scheme involves several sleeper agents in the U.S. who will detonate smallpox bombs if he is killed or captured, in order to prevent the U.S. interfering with his revolutionary uprising.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Apparently because Karlthson was a woman, he couldn't resist her requests to have full access to his facility when she was captured.
- Expy: 'Heavily based on Che Guevara, as not only does he look and dress like Che and share similar beliefs about violent revolution, but it's even revealed in-game that Sadono's image and likeness have been appropriated for shirts and other merchandise as a symbol of "ironic" rebellion. Meanwhile, Sadono's background as a former CIA-backed anti-communist guerilla turned anti-American terrorist leader certainly draws inspiration from Osama bin Laden.
- Far East Asian Terrorists: A terrorist from East Timor (former Indonesian province before it became independent), in Southeast Asia. He was likely a pro-Indonesian militiaman prior to East Timor's independence.
- Feet of Clay: Although the news media portrays Sadono as a cunning and capable guerrilla leader, it's discovered over the course of the campaign that, though charismatic, he's rather incompetent and his successes are mostly due to his allies and his insurance policy.
- Frontline General: He's seen taking to the field alongside his rebel troops. This is part of his Evil Plan; since his death would result in a mass terror attack, American forces are forced to withdraw whenever he shows up rather than risk killing him.
- Lima Syndrome: Toward Ingrid Karlthson.
- Narcissist: He's quite vain and arrogant. In one cutscene he is seen fighting alongside his troops, and he stops to wink at the camera.
- One-Man Army: One of Pandora Tomorrow's goals is to turn Sadano into one of these. Since millions will die in smallpox bombings if he is killed in combat, whenever he takes to the field, U.S. forces are forced to retreat so as not to risk killing him, making him look like some sort of superhero to the local populace. Part of Sadano's reason for coming up with the scheme was likely to become a Fake Ultimate Hero and play into his ego.
- Psychopathic Manchild: According to Karlthson, he has a child's view of war, seeing no difference between soldier and civilian, and seeing them all as legitimate targets.
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: You have a perfect opportunity to shoot Sadano in the face in the game's prologue level, well before he's implemented his Pandora Tomorrow scheme and without putting any of the hostages at risk. This results in an immediate mission failure for deviating from your orders to avoid engaging with the enemy.
Norman Soth
Norman Soth
Voiced by: Stephen Croce
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
A former CIA agent who took up sides with Suhadi Sadono, Soth is one of the two villains of the second game.
- An Arm and a Leg: His "disagreement with a landmine" cost him his entire right leg and some fingers on his left hand.
- Bald of Evil: He's a hairless terrorist.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Suhadi Sadono.
- Code Name: Several. In the 90s he went under the name Richard Arbor. After being abandoned by the CIA he took on a name Jonathan Poindexter, with "Mortified_Penguin" as an E-Mail nickname.
- Deep Cover Agent: How he started out. Then he went too deep.
- Dragon-in-Chief: Sadono is the face of Pandora Tomorrow, but it's Soth that does all the planning and all the legwork.
- Dragon Their Feet: Despite the capture of Sadono, Soth still owns one last unit of ND-133s, and attempts to unleash the smallpox virus in the LAX Airport on various unsuspecting travallers for maximum exposure. The final mission of Pandora Tomorrow consists in stopping all of this.
- Evil Cripple: Has a prosthetic leg, courtesy of the car bomb that he blamed on Uncle Sam.
- Face–Heel Turn: He was a former CIA agent before going rogue.
- Foil: To Sam Fisher. Both are secret agents who performed top secrets operation for the US government. But while Fisher, in spite of the disagreements with Lambert, always remained both loyal to his country and supported by NSA, Soth was abandoned by his higher-ups, to which he responded by starting a violent vendetta against the US.
- Handicapped Badass: Is apparently still fit enough to lead commando raids even with only one leg. His prosthetic limb also doesn't handicap him in any way during the final shootout.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Soth doesn't give a damn about Sadono's revolution. He just wants to get revenge on America for burning him all those years ago.
- Rogue Agent: Was "burned" by the Agency while in deep cover in Indonesia. This got him blown up by the people he was embedded with. He survived, minus one leg, and ended up hooking up with Sadono to get revenge on America.
- Western Terrorists: A former CIA agent who turned against his country.
- Younger Than He Looks: He's only 44 years old at the time of the game, but looks an old man in his sixties.
Displace International
Doug Shetland
Douglas "Doug" Shetland
Shetland in Chaos Theory
Voiced by: Marcel Jeannin
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow | Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory | Splinter Cell: Essentials
"America is sick, Sam... she's dying! The politicians, the bureaucrats, the whispered backroom deals, it's all life support for a sick old woman who was dead a long time ago."
Shetland is the CEO of Displace International. He is a former Force Recon Marine who was considered for the Splinter Cell program, and a friend of Sam's. He is also the Big Bad of the third game, trying to spark World War III in North Korea through the utilization of the destruction of the USS Walsh.
- Ascended Extra: He first appeared as a supporting character in Pandora Tomorrow. He has a much bigger role in Chaos Theory.
- Bald of Evil: Or in the least thinning brown hair.
- Big Bad: Of Chaos Theory.
- Big Bad Friend: To Fisher.
- Cool Old Guy: Lampshaded by Grim in Pandora Tomorrow, who comments: "Could almost believe the two of you are competing for the title "World's Most Amoral Reluctantly-Aging Badass".
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He is the head of Displace International, and is hellbent on expanding its power even if it means world war.
- Destination Defenestration: At the end of their showdown, Sam throws him through a rooftop window to his death after either shooting him or stabbing him.
- Elite Mooks: Shetland's handful of personal bodyguards are equipped with thermal vision goggles and are the only enemies in the original 4 games to be able to see Fisher even in complete darkness.
- Evil Former Friend: A big case of this between him and Fisher.
- Face–Heel Turn: In time for his turn as Big Bad.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: In Pandora Tomorrow, he's at first a hostage to the Darah Dan Doa, then contributes to a mission briefing and has his contractors cover Sam with sniper fire. Come the sequel, he's the big bad, along with Ottomo, and not only manages to start a second Korean War, but also very nearly gets Japan involved.
- I Surrender, Suckers: Tries to pull this on Sam during their last confrontation in Chaos Theory. It doesn't work.
- Knight Templar
- Majorly Awesome
- Motive Rant: He gives a pretty impressive rant on what drove him to fund terrorists and try to start World War III. Basically after being disillusioned with the American political system, its corruption and the way it treats soldiers as disposable tools. He wants to shake up the world order in the hopes that whatever comes out the other side is an improvement.
- Puzzle Boss: The "final confrontation" with Shetland involves the player navigating a maze of pipes to defuse a series of bombs while dealing with a handful of Elite Mooks. The actual short hand-to-hand fight on the roof that follows is more of a Cutscene Boss encounter.
- Retired Badass: To a degree, since he's still on the field as part of Displace; he only actually left the Marines after being Kicked Upstairs over a friendly-fire incident involving another Marine under his command.
- Semper Fi: Formerly.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Force Recon specifically.
- Villain Has a Point: Despite how extreme his solution and reaction to the problem is, Shetland has an absolutely valid point about the depths of the corruption in the United States government, and their disposal of soldiers, not only due to it having betrayed him personally, but from what we see of this later in the series in "Double Agent" and "Conviction" alike, with Sam now on the receiving end of their treachery.
- You Wouldn't Shoot Me: He tells Sam that he wouldn't shoot an old friend. Sam either does shoot him or puts his gun away and stabs him when Shetland tries to kill him.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters:Sam: You're a murderer, and a war criminal!
Shetland: Those are the only names the state has for the revolutionaries, Sam! You only become a hero after the war is over.
Milan Nedich
Milos Nowak / "Milan Nedich"
Voiced by: Andreas Apergis
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
The vice president of the VIP protection division of Displace International, he is the Big Bad of the third game. Part of the way in, it is determined that he is instead The Dragon to Shetland.
- Asshole Victim: Given the fact that he tried to start World War III, murders his own men, was involved in kidnapping Morgenholt, and was a war criminal before that, there's a lot of enjoyment in turning him into a corpse.
- Axe-Crazy
- Big Bad: Subverted. He is really The Dragon.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- Morton's Fork: The second of two characters in the game who Sam will kill regardless of which button you press to take him out after interrogating him.
Abrahim Zherkezhi
Abrahim Zherkezhi
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
A naive computer theorist who wants to promote world peace through his protection by Displace International. His "Dvorak" algorithms are used by Shetland in an attempt to provoke World War III. Mentioned in the second game, he shows up in the third.
- The Dreaded: Rumored to have gone insane by the events of the third game, he becomes this to Third Echelon in their investigation of the stolen algorithms on which he has intimate knowledge, having reverse-engineered Philip Masse's handiwork from the first game.
- The Evil Genius: In the third game, though he's not evil, nor does he know what is being done with his work until it is too late for him.
- Reluctant Mad Scientist: He is a chronically naive computer theorist who only wants to use his unblockable magic hacker-program to promote the course of 'world peace'. Too bad he chose Shetland as a partner.
- Smart People Wear Glasses
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Shetland murders him once Zherkezhi realizes that Shetland is using him.
Hugo Lacerda
Hugo Lacerda
Voiced by: Luis des Cespedes
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
- 0% Approval Rating: Everyone aboard the Maria Narcissa absolutely hates Lacerda. Lots of mentions of him complaining about petty things, and the people he's seen talking with are eager for him to go away. Multiple characters you interrogate at knifepoint don't really seem to care when Fisher makes it clear he's going to kill Lacerda.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Naturally, once Sam has him at knife-point.
- He Knows Too Much: Lambert notes that the algorithms his people tortured out of Morgenholt are much too dangerous to risk him selling them to someone else - the entire point of the mission to the Maria Narcissa is to ensure Lacerda doesn't leave it alive.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: An investigation into a kidnapping undertaken by small-time Peruvian guerillas ultimately leads to dealing with an orchestrated attempt to start World War III.
- Morton's Fork: He's the first of two characters who Sam kills after interrogating him, regardless of which button you press.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He talks surprisingly big for the leader of such a small group. Naturally, the only people who even vaguely tolerate him are the foreign mercenaries he pays the big bucks to.
- Unwitting Pawn: He doesn't even know why he was contracted to kidnap Morgenholt, only that whoever wanted it paid him a lot of money.
John Brown's Army
Emile Dufraisne
Emile Dufraisne
Voiced by: Keith Szarabajka
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Double Agent
The leader of John Brown's Army. Emile was a wealthy Mississippi citizen who sold all of his possessions in order to fund his revolutionary army. He believes America has become corrupt and has to be taken down and rebuilt.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Subverted in the Xbox 360/PC version. If you try to stealth kill him, he'll break out of Sam's grip and assume a fighting stance, but Sam will just drive his nasal bone into his brain with a single strike to the face, killing him. Played straight in the Xbox/PS2 version in which you have a full-on Final Boss fight against him, due to him having a machine gun and Sam having lost his pistol inside a maze of laser tripmines.
- Bad Boss: He executes Enrica if the bomb fails to go off on the cruise ship, suspecting she was a mole who sabotaged the device, even though he had no evidence.
- Bald of Evil: Very much an example of such.
- Big Bad: Of Double Agent.
- Composite Character: He's an Expy of both Lambert as the primary leader of the organization, and of the various runners Sam previously worked with due to his more hands-on tendencies; both Shanghai and Kinshasa involve him taking Fisher to the target area for Sam to perform his mission while Emile negotiates with other groups.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Resembles the late actor Telly Savalas, which is fitting considering that he was famous for playing villains (one of the most notable roles being the James Bond villain Ernst Blofeld, who like Emile leads a paramilitary international criminal/terrorist organisation).
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: Played with. Despite being a militia leader, he's got a female liberal as his second-in-command. Likewise, he's taken his organization's name from a famous abolitionist.
- If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: He really likes pulling this, even on operatives who have already proven their loyalty.
- Properly Paranoid: He's got no less than two deep cover agents in his organization. Sadly, his tests don't prove anything since he's rather forgiving of mistakes comparatively speaking.
- Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: Is the leader of one of these, though John Brown's Army is much more effective than most examples thereof.
- Taking You with Me: When the Feds storm his secret HQ, he tries to use his nuclear bomb to blow up New York City rather than be taken alive.
Carson Moss
Carson Moss
Voiced by: Dwight Schultz
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- Dumb Muscle: He's a big brute who's not big on things like planning and tactics.
- The Dragon: To Dufraisne.
- Dragon Their Feet: He's the only high-ranking member of the JBA who isn't killed or captured in the raid on their headquarters; there's an unlockable bonus mission where Sam tracks him down afterwards to stop the final bomb.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: His profile says he's racist, though he never expresses it in game.
- Properly Paranoid: He despises Sam, believing him to be bad news. His instincts turn out to be right in the end.
- Unskilled, but Strong: He has nowhere near the level of close combat training that Sam has, but if you try to stealth kill him he manages to counter and briefly give Sam some trouble through sheer brute strength. Sam quickly disables him with a few surgical strikes before snapping his neck, though.
Jamie Washington
Jamie Washington
Voiced by: Kevin Glikmann
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Double Agent
A ruthless young member of John Brown's Army.
- Affably Evil: He's very nice to the people he considers his friends, but extremely cruel to the ones he does not.
- The Brute: He's prone to Kick the Dog moments when Sam won't do it.
- Evil Cripple: Downplayed. He has a pacemaker in his chest to keep his heart regular, but he's otherwise capable and healthy. You can kill him with your pistol's EMP attachment in version 2 of the game, however.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Has complete and utter faith in Sam Fisher's loyalty to the JBA.
Enrica Villablanca
Enrica Villablanca
Voiced by: Rachel Reenstra
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Double Agent
A former student activist who has found herself working for John Brown's Army.
- Affably Evil: Despite being blackmailed into becoming a member of the JBA, she's still a member and assists in their terrorist activities.
- Defecting for Love: In the Xbox/PS2/Wii version of Double Agent, Sam develops a genuine romantic attachment to Enrica, and is very pissed when she's killed by Third Echelon. In the Xbox 360/PC version, though, Sam's just playing her for info, and is perfectly happy to kill her in cold blood in order to achieve 100% Completion. She does help Sam by unlocking a coded door for him if he lets her live instead, but he can kill her before she walks away after the door is opened, and no option to knock her unconscious is available.
- The Medic: Serves in this role.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Has a Ph.D. and is working for terrorists.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: Unlike the other members of the JBA, who are all hardcore anti-government militants, Enrica is essentially an Ivy League educated revolutionary wannabe who only sticks around because Emile has enough dirt on her to bury her.
- Optional Sexual Encounter: It's possible, though not required, for Sam and Enrica to hook up in Double Agent.
- You Have Failed Me: Emile executes her if the bomb on the cruise ship fails to go off due to Sam's sabotage.
Stanley Dayton
Black Arrow
Lucius Galliard
Lucius Galliard
Voiced by: Tyrone Benskin
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Conviction
The CEO of Black Arrow and several other companies. Lucius is a member of Megiddo, a Nebulous Evil Organization with major influence that opposes President Patricia Caldwell.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: The CEO of a powerful PMC, Galliard is actually working for Megiddo in order to take down the United States.
- He Knows Too Much: Mere moments after Sam captures him, a sniper kills Galliard to prevent him from talking about Megiddo, with Sam getting barely any information about the group. The assassin is killed by a car bomb a few minutes later.
- The Man Behind the Man: He gives orders to both Reed and V.P. Samson on behalf of Megiddo.
- Villain with Good Publicity: When he is mentioned on a news program Sam can overhear, he is described as a well-known philanthropist.
Jeremy Prentiss
Colonel Jeremy Prentiss
Voiced by: Trevor Hayes
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Conviction
A colonel who works for Black Arrow, Prentiss serves as one of Tom Reed's allies during the fifth game,
- The Brute: Of the fifth game.
- Colonel Badass: Subverted, in that the best effort he makes against Sam Fisher is in a gunship with machine guns and missiles, and he still doesn't manage to hit him.
- Hellish Copter: Dies when his helicopter is hit by missiles fired from Vic Coste's own gunship.
- Kick the Dog: When he realizes that Fisher is with him at the reservoir, Prentiss brings up Sarah's death to him.
- Sinister Shades
- Would Hit a Girl: When a female scientist attempts to sabotage the EMP device at the reservoir, Prentiss beats her up and attempts to kill her.
Shawn Robertson
Major Shawn Robertson
Voiced by: Danny Blanco-Hall
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Conviction
A major working for Black Arrow, he serves as one of Tom Reed's allies in the fifth game.
- Beard of Evil
- Black Dude Dies First: Robertson is the first of Conviction's villians to die.
- The Brute
- Explosive Instrumentation: When Sam sets off an EMP to stop Robertson from tracking down Grim, the console he is using electrocutes him and then explodes, setting his body on fire in his chair.
- Majorly Awesome: Subverted. He doesn't really do much at all, despite his rank.
- Scary Black Man
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He and his men execute the scientists at White Box once they finished work on the EMP devices.
The Engineers
Majid Sadiq
Majid Sadiq
Voiced by: Carlo Rota
Appears in: Splinter Cell: Blacklist
The leader of the Engineers and the mastermind behind the "Blacklist" plot against the United States.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Puts up a pretty good fight against Sam in the finale. He's basically the only guy besides Douglas Shetland who could actually fight Sam hand-to-hand on an even playing field.
- Bald of Evil
- Big Bad: Of Blacklist.
- Break Them by Talking: Does this successfully with a captured US soldier in Iraq before executing him. Tries this with Sam in London but Briggs pulls a Big Damn Hero moment.
- Character Tic: Plays with Sam's karambit whenever he gets hold of it in non-combat situations.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Has this performed on the US Secretary of Defense in order to get his information codes.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Does this to Briggs when attempting to escape the bunker and almost does this with Sam in their final confrontation.
- Defiant to the End: Attempts to pull this off with Sam at the end of their fight in Colorado. He fails, as Sam spares him.
- Evil Brit: Ex-MI6.
- Faux Affably Evil: Drops his facade when he is called out on his actions.
- Fallen Hero: He's a former MI6 agent turned terrorist ringleader. The implication of his character is to show what might have happened to Sam if the events of Conviction had played out differently.
- Final Boss: Has a true Boss Battle in his finale.
- Genius Bruiser: Conducts and plans a series of meticulous and incredibly destructive terrorist attacks while staying one step ahead of the protagonists, is a former MI6 agent who knows most of the tactics Fourth Echelon will deploy against him and is one of the few antagonists of the franchise to come closest to killing Sam Fisher in a fair fight.
- Hannibal Lecture: Pulls off a creepy one on a helpless hostage in Iraq, reducing him to a sobbing wreck.
- Ink-Suit Actor: He looks exactly like Carlo Rota.
- Rogue Agent: Ex-MI6 agent.
- The Unreveal: His actual plan is never really elaborated on, aside from that he wants to get some kind of information from the Secretary of Defense's accounts, which he deems to be the most dangerous weapon available to the modern world. He knows not to give a Motive Rant to his enemies.
- Word of God is that, in addition to nuclear access codes, he was also seeking all of the United States' massive troves of information to expose their secrets to the world and destroy all of their international relationships.
- Villainous Breakdown: Has a brief but spectacular one when Briggs, against all his expectations, actually kills the Secretary of Defense complete with a Big "NO!" and a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
