Characters / Vietcong

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Recurring Characters

Steve R. Hawkins

• Big Good: He's The Leader of The Squad. And they can't go on without him.
• Chivalrous Pervert: If the following quote is any indication.
  Ah ha! South Vietnamese currency, good for the boom-boom girls!
• Demolitions Expert: Does demolition work alongside Bronson.
• Ensign Newbie: He is Douglas' replacement, after all.

• I Need a Freaking Drink: In the second game.

• Previous Player-Character Cameo: At the very first level of the US campaign.

• What Happened to the Mouse?: Not seen again after the second game's first level.

Rosenfield

• What Happened to the Mouse?: Not seen again after the second game's third level when the Tet Offensive begins.

Hornster

• The Big Guy: The team's machinegunner.
• Blood Knight: Gets berated for it, too.
  Hornster: A nice little camp, with plenty of gooks to shoot! My idea of heaven!

• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Unused files in the second game revealed that the unnamed Green Beret advisor in the VC campaign is actually him.

• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Was originally going to suffer this fate.

Vietcong, Fist Alpha, and Red Dawn

Douglas Warren

• Big Good: He's The Leader of The Squad. And they can't go on without him.
• Demolitions Expert: Does demolition work alongside Bronson.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Let's face it, Douglas' fate (getting sniped during a routine patrol) fits this trope to a T.

Le Dhuy Nhut

• Elites Are More Glamorous: An LLDB pointman.

• Heel–Face Turn
  Nhut: Me fight with Viet Minh against French. But me no like commies, they damned son-of-a-bitches. We must fight French, no Vietnamese, but they fight Vietnamese too, so commies be boss of all. I no like, so I go south and joined LLDB.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: Equipped with a Remington 870.

Nguyen Nham

• Elites Are More Glamorous: An LLDB pointman.

Joe Crocker

• Irony: Can occur if he gets wounded himself.

C. J. Defort

• Blood Knight: Gets berated for it.
  Defort: You kidding? We're in deep, hostile jungle, dodging VC, tiptoeing past traps and toe-poppers, I feel great!

Thomas Bronson

• Deadpan Snarker
  Bronson: Good! The more you shoot, the less I carry!
• Demolitions Expert: Does demolition work alongside Douglas and Hawkins.

Marvin Fisher

• You All Look Familiar: His model is also used by other NPC American soldiers.

Drill Sergeant/Colonel

• Cool Shades: Wears one when he becomes a colonel.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Well, duh. He naturally appears as the player's instructor in the tutorial mode. He returns in the campaign as a colonel. Complete with a Colonel Kilgore attire.
• Mission Control: Briefs Rosenfield and the rest of the Nui Pek troops on the assault on Po Tlong Karai.

• Sir Swears-a-Lot: As expected from a Drill Sergeant Nasty.

Condor Three

• Distressed Dude: The VCs shot down his Thunderchief and Douglas and his team sees it going down. Naturally, both parties start searching for him.

Lim

• The Smart Guy: Lampshaded by Nguyen.
  Nguyen: Villager know it here better than me.
• Third-Person Person
  Lim: Lim will take! Follow!

NVA Colonel

• Cower Power: Hides behind his compound and relies on his mooks and reinforcements to protect himself from Douglas, being armed with only a handgun.

Vietcong 2

Daniel Boone

• Berserk Button: NEVER call him "the protector of all the Congs".
• Big Good: He's The Leader of The Squad. And they can't go on without him.

• Chivalrous Pervert: Sleeps next to a prostitute at the beginning of the game.

• Majorly Awesome: Gets promoted to Major after assaulting the citadel.

• Pop-Cultured Badass: If the Star Trek references are any indication.

• Sociopathic Hero: Downplayed. He's friendly to his fellow US/ARVN soldiers, but when it goes to the NVA/VCs, he's pretty much Paying Evil Unto Evil. Best exemplified in the VC campaign's ending, where he orders Minh and all the dead VC soldiers to be buried along with their victims.
  Bury the dead.

Dutch

Cobber Campbell

Stone

• The Big Guy: The team's machinegunner.

Tommyboy

• Tagalong Kid: He's not a member of Boone's team, and merely acting as a liaison between them and the MACV high command. There's a reason why Boone calls him "boy scout".
• Too Dumb to Live: Tries to attack a fleeing VC squad and charges into an open field with absolutely no cover, completely exposing him to sniper fire. If it wasn't for Cobber, he would've bled to death.

Lewis

Walsh

• What Happened to the Mouse?: Not seen again after the assault on the MACV HQ was repelled.

Rigley

• Entitled Bastard: Boone absolutely hates him.
• The Neidermeyer: He's in charge of a failed mission (depicted in the intro) near the DMZ which ends with his marines either getting shot by the VCs or blown up by minefields and RPGs. Boone, who participated (and gets wounded) in said mission, hates him so bad that he filed a complaint and he almost got court-martialed. Cobber seems to hate him as well.
  MACV soldier: Rivalry between army and marines. The marines swept it under the table.

• What Happened to the Mouse?: Not seen or mentioned again after the second game's ninth level.

Mai Van Minh

• Better to Die than Be Killed
  Minh: No, I obey orders! A soldier must obey his orders!
  Boone: No— *Minh pulls the trigger*

• Dark and Troubled Past: First the French killed his people, then the Americans and the CIDG slaughtered his family.

• Knight Templar: Gets dangerously close to this trope as the VC campaign progresses.

• My Country, Right or Wrong:
  Minh's diary: I am a soldier, and a soldier must obey what he is ordered to do.

• Sergeant Rock: Promoted to sergeant after undergoing demolitions training.

• You No Take Candle
  Minh: Dung lai! VC number one! You didi mau!

Tran

• The Big Guy: The team's machinegunner.

Pham

Nguyen

Soat

• Poirot Speak
  Soat: ...no, they're all dead. We should didi mau.

Thu

• Elites Are More Glamorous: A Black Panther officer.

VC Propagandist

• Propaganda Machine: He tries to convince the civilians in Hue to rise up against the Americans using the town hall's radio.
• Too Dumb to Live: Too oblivious to hear gunfire in and around the town hall, not even hearing Boone entering his room and sneaking up to him.

NVA Officer

• Political Officer: A commissar, no less.

NVA Hero

• All There in the Manual: Game files, not to mention his class's description in the multiplayer mode identified him as a "hero of the revolution".
• Big Bad: The closest the US campaign gets to one, being one of the remaining officers who were (probably) in charge of the NVA and VC forces in Hue.

• Final Boss: Bonus points for being the very last enemy fought in the US campaign.
• More Dakka: Equipped with an RPD.

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