Deus Ex/Characters

JC Denton
"Voice: Jay Anthony Franke"

The player character and main protagonist of the game, an augmented agent of UNATCO tasked with defeating the NSF, only to find out that the situation is considerably more complicated than it seems..

""What a shame."
 * Badass
 * Badass Longcoat: Lampshaded when Anna tells you you will have to do more than just scare your enemies with a coat that makes you look bigger that you really are.
 * Cool Shades
 * Iron Woobie: If you speak with Morpheus, he'll confirm to JC he was  JC's response is basically "So? Who cares?"
 * One-Man Army: What you are considered after the halfway point of the game.
 * Bio Augmentation
 * Combo-Platter Powers: The various augmentations available, from Super Speed to regeneration to bulletproof skin to completely silent movement and invisibility...
 * The Comically Serious
 * Creepy Monotone: Intended to allow the player to insert their own emotion, though even divorced from its justification, it fits JC's character design.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: JC is as dark and serious as his brother, but he's good.
 * Deadpan Snarker: JC Denton has a few witty quotes in line with such.

"A bomb's a bad choice for close range combat."

"You mechs may have copper wiring to reroute your fear of pain, but I've got nerves of steel."

"I was never properly trained in its operation.""

""A BOMB!" "WHO ARE YOU?!""
 * Genius Bruiser: While possibly and at least built to be a killing machine, at more than a few points, such as with the bartender in China and with Morpheus, is quite able to sit down and talk philosophy.
 * A God Am I: In Invisible War, after merging with extremely powerful, omniscient AI Helios.
 * Happily Adopted: Like Paul, he was fond of his adoptive parents.
 * Healing Factor: Regeneration is, unsurprisingly, the most popular augmentation amongst most players, especially since at full power you regain health faster than a roomful of enemies with assault rifles going full auto can take it away.
 * Heroic Albino: J.C. Denton can be an albino. But then, he can also be black, white, vaguely Hispanic...
 * Hyperspace Arsenal: JC has a lot of space in that coat.
 * The Immune: JC is immune to the the symptoms of Gray Death.
 * Immune to Bullets: Can be depending on your difficulty setting and augs selection.
 * Jumped At the Call: "This is why I exist? Alright. Let's do this."
 * Meaningful Name: He becomes a Messianic Archetype in one of the endings.
 * Memetic Mutation: Oh where to begin...?
 * Naive Newcomer: At first...
 * Nakama: This is why when JC finally decides to jump ship from his traitorous employers, so many of his senior co workers join him.
 * Nanotechnology: Is a walking test bed for the technology.
 * Narm


 * Nigh Invulnerable: It's possible to make him this to pretty much anything but long falls or explosions at point-blank range, even on realistic difficulty.
 * Phlebotinum Rebel: Oh yes indeed. From expendable prototype testbed for the real deal in the head conspirators to bane of the head conspirators' existence.
 * Properly Paranoid: JC can be this.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: JC is potentially Red to his brother Paul's Blue. He can be played as someone who thinks before he shoots, but that still doesn't get around the fact that he usually still has a far higher propensity to shoot than his brother (unless you go full Pacifist).
 * It can also work the other way, since JC is stoic and dry while his brother is much more emotional and social.
 * Sealed Good in a Can: For Invisible War.
 * Significant Monogram
 * Stealth Expert
 * The Stoic
 * Sunglasses At Night: Lampshaded by Anna, and Handwaved via JC's 'My vision is augmented' explanation. In game terms, the reason probably has something to do with the fact that the glasses conceal one of the only visible signs that JC is a nano-aug.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * Weak but Skilled: On the "Realistic" difficulty setting. It's still possible to go through the game as an One-Man Army, but you have to be extra-careful.

Paul Denton
"Voice: Jay Anthony Franke"

J.C.'s brother and fellow augmented agent.


 * Badass
 * Badass Beard
 * Badass Longcoat
 * One-Man Army: It is entirely possible for Paul to be this near the midpoint of the game.
 * Bio Augmentation
 * Conspiracy Theorist
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Happily Adopted: Indicates he liked his parents and JC mentions he and Paul realized they were not genetically related growing up.
 * Meaningful Name: Saul changed his name to Paul when he decided to switch sides from persecuting the early Christians to converting to Christianity. Paul Denton goes from persecuting the NSF to joining them.
 * Mission Control: Only a few times though.
 * Nanotechnology
 * Phlebotinum Rebel: Rebelled before little bro JC did. However, not as successful at it as JC was.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to his little bro JC's potential Red. He's the one who urges you basically to think before you shoot.
 * Sealed Good in a Can: For Invisible War.
 * Technical Pacifist: Will lecture the player on avoiding fatalities, but put him in a room with a hostile and he'll gib the poor guy with a plasma rifle.
 * Sealed Good in a Can: For Invisible War.
 * Technical Pacifist: Will lecture the player on avoiding fatalities, but put him in a room with a hostile and he'll gib the poor guy with a plasma rifle.

Bob Page
"Voice: Cliff Stephens"

The richest man in the world, head of Page Industries and member of the Illuminati.

""Why contain it [Gray Death and the subsequent rioting]? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them.""
 * Bald of Evil:
 * Big Bad
 * Bio Augmentation
 * Complete Monster:


 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Crazy Prepared: Unlike most villains, he does think far enough ahead to have a Plan B AND C.
 * Deceptive Disciple: Either this or A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil to Morgan Everret.
 * Didn't See That Coming:
 * Evil Redhead
 * It's All About Me
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Money
 * Villainous Breakdown: If you follow Everett's suggestion to kill him, he'll get increasingly unhinged and desperate. Amusingly, since his taunting messages to the player are scripted by location, he'll come across as bipolar, switching between pleading with JC and mocking him.
 * While it's not nearly as loud, he does this if JC is doing the steps to reach the Helios Ending as well.
 * Villain with Good Publicity
 * Voice with an Internet Connection
 * We Can Rule Together: Resorts to this in desperation when JC is getting close to stopping him.
 * We Can Rule Together: Resorts to this in desperation when JC is getting close to stopping him.

Walton Simons
"Voice: Tom Hall"

The head of FEMA and Page's right-hand man.

""Denton? Walton Simons here. What an expensive mistake you turned out to be. I ordered the troops to kill you, because frankly I don't have the patience to wait for one of those damn killswitches to work.""
 * Anticlimax Boss: If you Maxed your Rifles skill, three headshots from an Assault Shotgun can kill him. He also conveniently runs straight to you just so he can taunt you before the fight, which means when the fight begins he'll be about five feet away. If you fight him at Area 51, it's actually possible to kill him right after the cutscene before he even moves or throws a LAM.
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Bio Augmentation
 * The Comically Serious: Throw things at him and watch his reaction.
 * Creator Cameo: He is voiced by one of the producers of the game.
 * Creepy Monotone
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy

"Simons: "You take another step forward and here I am again, like your own reflection in a hall of mirrors." JC: "Must make me one ugly son of a bitch.""
 * The Dragon
 * Evil Counterpart: To JC, somewhat.


 * I Have Your Wife: Threatens an NSF's prisoner's family to try to get him to talk.
 * Impossibly Cool Clothes: Just look at the design of his trenchcoat and try telling yourself government employees IRL get to walk around in threads that awesome looking.
 * Informed Ability: You can find a list of his augmentations and powers, but the only power he is seen using is invisibility and remote detonation.
 * Nanotechnology
 * Recurring Boss: If he's avoided the first time.
 * Red Right Hand: The bioelectics on his skin.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Money: Simons is a "philanthropist", who has made very large "donations" to assure UNATCO is properly equipped and supplied. While UNATCO technically falls under his command anyway, this makes them especially eager to follow orders.
 * Skippable Boss: If you're quick enough at the Ocean Lab, the fight won't even start since Simons has to catch you and go into conversation before he'll turn hostile. This is pretty amusing since he has a freaking Plasma Rifle, and could easily just shoot you in the back while he's chasing you down.
 * The Stoic
 * Tainted Veins: JC points this out in a rather humorous scene.
 * Villain with Good Publicity: Is seen as a philanthropist by the ordinary UNATCO troopers.
 * Voice with an Internet Connection: Only a few times, though.

ECHELON IV
"Voice: Peter Marquardt"


 * AI Is a Crapshoot: Daedalus turns against its creators when their methods technically classify them as a terrorist organization.
 * Big Brother Is Watching
 * Deus Est Machina
 * Evil Gloating: Icarus takes great sadistic joy in taunting you about how pathetic you are and how futile everything you do is at each step, plus going on about how much You Suck in response to any Video Game Cruelty Potential you take advantage of.
 * A God Am I: Helios
 * Gone Horribly Right: The reason why Daedalus turns on its masters is drenched in irony.
 * It's a Small Net After All: Daedalus is the Internet.
 * Face Heel Turn: Artificially induced on Daedalus not long after the Versalife mission. . A conversation involving Bob Page can be overheard foreshadowing this shortly before it happens.
 * Mission Control: Daedalus and Helios.
 * Split Personality: Daedalus and Icarus.
 * Split Personality Merge: Helios.
 * Verbal Tic: The Helios AI, yes.
 * Voice with an Internet Connection: Icarus and Helios.

Anna Navarre and Gunther Hermann
"Voice: Carolyn McCormick and Jeff Groteboer"


 * Ax Crazy
 * Beta Test Baddie: Gunther especially so.
 * Blood Knight: Anna's SOP for any hostile situation is kill everything!
 * Body Count Competition: Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre seem to have such a competition. If the Player Character is killed by Anna, she'll sometimes say "Nine hundred and ten. I'm catching up, Gunther".
 * Butt Monkey: Gunther suffers quite a few indignities of varying degrees, from getting kidnapped, to getting phased out in favor of agents with newer augmentations, to being unable to get the soda he wants.
 * Cyborg
 * Honor Before Reason: Gunther cannot be talked down from fighting you in Paris.
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
 * Invisibility: Anna's augment of choice. She also runs the tutorial on stealth.
 * Jerkass: Anna. Unless you're a merciless killer, she treats you like crap. However, showing a little humility and deferring to her early on during the second mission) will delay some of her more abrasive tendencies, but still, she'll wind up treating you like shit for not being a cold blooded killer sooner or later.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Gunther. Sure he's a bloodthirsty killing machine with close to 1000 hits under his belt, but you can't help but pity him.
 * Morality Pet: Gunther truly does feel sorrow and rage, and it is that which is driving him to want to   That said, this trope doesn't make him any less villainous, but at least his motives are a little more sympathetic.
 * Only Sane Man: Anna is very skeptical about Gunther's conspiracy theory that the maintenance man who stocks the drink machines at UNATCO is purposely trying to screw him over.
 * Self-Destruct Mechanism: One mechanism kills them, the other takes care of the corpse.
 * Skippable Boss
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Gunther likes orange soda. He does not feel the same way about lemon-lime.
 * Verbal Tic: Gunther seems to have a lisping problem. Most likely, given his accent, English is not his first language.

Sam Carter
"Voice: Sean Hennigan"

The quartermaster for UNATCO and a former general.


 * Artificial Limbs: One of his legs, according to the now defunct homepage. Not that you can tell by his character model...
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Don't You Dare Pity Me!: JC attempts to express sympathy to Sam for the loss of his family to terrorism. Sam doesn't want to hear it.
 * Internal Reformist: He eventually gives up though.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He comes off as very crotchety and hard-assed, but seriously, he's a stand up guy, and if you keep picking non lethal options and avoiding killing people, he even commends you on your humanity and restraint.
 * My Country, Right or Wrong:
 * Noodle Incident: He memorably claims to have dispatched an entire platoon with a pocket knife. He also mentions taking out a group of Afghans in an unspecified war.
 * Semi-Retired Badass: He's an ex-General working as a quartermaster.

Jaime Reyes
"Voice: Sean Hennigan"

UNATCO's doctor and the one in charge of nanotechnology-related matters.


 * The Lancer: It's strongly implied that he and JC are childhood friends.
 * The Medic
 * Voice with an Internet Connection: During the Training part of the game.

Alex Jacobson
"Voice: Richard Zangrande Gaubert"


 * Boxed Crook: He's a hacker that UNATCO recruited.
 * Defector From Decadence: Becomes pretty disgusted with UNATCO around the midpoint of the game and bails..
 * Geek
 * The Smart Guy
 * Voice with an Internet Connection

Brian “Jock” Flanagan
"Voice: John Gault"

A helicopter pilot who works for UNATCO and later defects along with you.


 * Badass Driver: It takes some balls to fly into the epicenter of hostile enemy territory, which he does regularly throughout the game.
 * Drunk Driver: The only time you meet him outside of his ride, he's hanging out in a bar. You can buy him two beers. You can call him out on this, and he'll claim he can't fly the helicopter properly when he's sober.
 * Properly Paranoid: To the point he drops hefty foreshadowing on later events very early in the game.

Joseph Manderley
"Voice: John Gault"


 * Da Chief: Of UNATCO.
 * Too Dumb to Live:
 * Villain With Good Publicity: Is regarded as reasonable and well liked as leader of UNATCO despite criticism of UNATCO's activities, as revealed via some news articles.
 * Too Dumb to Live:
 * Villain With Good Publicity: Is regarded as reasonable and well liked as leader of UNATCO despite criticism of UNATCO's activities, as revealed via some news articles.
 * Villain With Good Publicity: Is regarded as reasonable and well liked as leader of UNATCO despite criticism of UNATCO's activities, as revealed via some news articles.

Tracer Tong
"Voice: John Gault"


 * Alliterative Name
 * Meaningful Name: His name is an allusion to the common Win32 networking tool "tracert" for looking up the hosts that a packet visits on its way to another host.
 * Mission Control:
 * Nice Guy
 * The Triads and the Tongs: Not so much as his father was in Human Revolution from what we can see. He seems more interested in his lab than day-to-day gang activity.
 * Voice with an Internet Connection

Morgan Everett
"Voice: Sean Hennigan"

Currently the most influential of, and is Page's former mentor.


 * Affably Evil: Albeit of the benevolent sort.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Though what he is manipulating you towards is pretty obvious.
 * Scary Black Man
 * His underling Toby Atanwe fits even better.
 * Voice with an Internet Connection
 * Wicked Cultured: He's an who happens to live in one of the nicest looking homes in the game, which goes nicely with his extremely polished manner.

Gary Savage
Leader of a group of scientists who defected from Area 51 and set up in Vandenberg Air Force Base to oppose Page.


 * Bald of Awesome
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Heel Face Turn: Along with the rest of X-51.

Jojo Fine
"Voice: Khary Payton"

A crime boss of New York who threatens to do things "lo bruto" when he doesn't get what he wants.


 * Bad Boss: Even his fellow NSF think he's an asshole.
 * Badass: Tries to come off as one, but he subverts this in every way.
 * Wannabe Badass Hispanic: Has a thuggish Hispanic accent, but it doesn't work very well at making him sound intimidating.
 * Colonel NON Badass: He'd love to be seen as a tough guy and he is a colonel in the NSF, but he's basically a Dirty Coward thug who hides behind a gun, intimidation tactics, fake augmentations, and a big title.
 * Crazy Prepared: While otherwise rather stupid, he does have the foresight to booby trap sensitive areas very carefully, though his ability to keep people from spilling about his defense setup security codes still sucks.
 * Jerkass
 * Real Men Wear Pink: Subverted. A NSF goon actually derides him (not to his face) for wearing an earring.
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Connections: He has connections to the NSF, which he apparently abuses.

Smuggler
"Voice: Khary Payton"

As his name implies, a smuggler in Hell's Kitchen.


 * Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Mostly played straight unless he owes you a favor, then he'll cut you a massive discount.
 * Badass Trenchcoat
 * Cool Shades
 * Only Known as "Smuggler"
 * Properly Paranoid

Gilbert Renton
"Voice: Ron Tatar"

Owner of the (Hil)Ton hotel, all he wants is to run a peaceful business and keep his daughter out of trouble.


 * I Just Want to Be Badass: Insofar as keeping his little girl safe anyway.
 * Overprotective Dad: Considering who his daughter is and the setting of the game, he has every right to be.
 * Papa Wolf: He becomes this if

Maggie Chow
"Voice: Carolyn McCormick"

The main antagonist of the Hong Kong area, a former actress and current business executive who is in league with Bob Page.


 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Dark Chick
 * Dragon Lady