At the risk of sounding like a Single Fandom Wonk, I initially hated the second sidekick, Double H, from Beyond Good & Evil. He wasn't as funny as the other main sidekick, Pey'j, his personality seemed to consist of nothing but "CARLSON AAAAND PEETERSSSSS!", and Suspiciously Similar Substitutesnever go over well. But by the end of the game, I'd grown to like him a lot—and then I realized that we, as the players, see him as Jade sees him. When she first meets him, a combination of Easy Amnesia and the fact that they're trapped behind enemy lines means that only his "soldier side" shows through, so of course he comes off as strange and obsessed. As the game goes on, and Jade spends time with him, both we and her learn more of his personality, and he becomes more affable. By the Final Boss, the two of them are willing to give their lives for one another, and we players have come to like him too. The organic way the game builds their relationship means that the players come to trust him in much the same fashion Jade does. Freezair For A Limited Time
"Double H, reporting for duty... The Alpha sections have taken possession of the... The shoes the... at your serviiiceee...." at first sounds like a Non Sequitur, *Thud*, but later in the game, you have to use a critical pass code found on the soles of a pair of shoes. Messages in shoes may very well have been a more widespread practice in La Résistance than we were lead to believe.
If you pay attention to the scenes on Black Isle, you'll notice that Pey'j only says a single line directly to Hahn and only during the taxi ride back to the entrance. It makes sense for him to avoid speaking to him as much as possible, given that he likely has spoken to Hahn over radio plenty of times and doesn't want to risk compromising his secret as the leader of IRIS by letting him recognize his voice.
In Beyond Good & Evil the Alpha Sections have a tank on their backs that is considered their weak point. When you learn that the Alpha Sections are infected by the DomZ, and that the Alpha Sections are kidnapping the Hillyans in order to survive, and seeing how the Hillyans are used at the end of the game makes you wonder what's in those tanks...
The track "Dancing with DomZ", the first boss theme, uses an ominous fantasy language for its choir and growling chants. Far later into the game, you begin to hear the language of the DomZ both from them and in other tracks associated with them, and eventually hear the DomZ priest chant one specific thing before fighting you. "Shauni DomZ digra" - roughly meaning "Shauni belongs to DomZ." Every time Jade is in proximity of the DomZ, she can hear them echoing in her head that she is one of them.
The Alpha Sections have the same stripy uniform pants as HH and the other regular army members. When Pey'j was captured, he was boxed and sent to the Moon immediately - but HH was put in a glowing green tank for days, which had mental and physical effects on him. One suspects that the tank was meant to convert him into an Alpha. And if so... the Alpha Section had an active recruitment drive going at the start of the game: how many of those gas-tank toting mooks started out as simple men like HH who wanted to fight for their country?
