Deus Ex: Human Revolution/Characters

Adam Jensen


""I never asked for this."

Voice: Elias Toufexis"

The protagonist of the game. He's a former SWAT turned security specialist hired by Sarif Industries to handle any threats the company might face. He was an ordinary human until a surprise attack from unknown forces forced Sarif Industries to augment his body. The game revolves around Jensen's attempts to find answers to why Sarif was attacked and how Megan is connected to all of this.

Tropes:
""You're right... A teacher would love having one of those things."
 * Anti-Hero / The Hero: Depending on your playstyle, of course.
 * Badass
 * Badass Baritone
 * Badass Bandolier: In an unusual twist on this, the Typhoon Aug is basically a series of explosive ball bearing grenades that deploy from a bandolier built into his body.
 * Badass Beard
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Badass Transplant: Or, in this case, most of Adam's body is replaced with cyberaugs that allow him to perform some stunning feats of badassery.
 * Brought Down to Badass:
 * Cool Shades: They're even mounted to his skull.
 * Interestingly, there is only one time in the game when he "retracts" them,
 * Heartbroken Badass:
 * One-Man Army: You can become one gameplay wise. In universe, by the end of the Missing Link DLC, Belltower considers you one... and they are scared shitless even if you're doing a Pacifist Run.
 * One of the Sarif security guards will actually say this to Adam, jokingly stating that Adam's "one-man army routine" is going to put them all out of a job.
 * Submissive Badass: Adam takes orders from someone for the whole game. Admittedly, the man giving them is quite grateful and appreciative.
 * Beard of Sorrow: More subtle than most examples, but Jensen's beard has grown out between the opening sequence and when he gets augmented.
 * Blue Eyes: Until his eyes are removed and replaced with cybernetic ones.
 * Book Dumb: He quickly glosses over any scientific word or phrase.
 * Although going to his flat, one can see that a lot of his reading material is quite heavy.
 * A bit of Fridge Brilliance, as is Deus Ex tradition; the miscellaneous books are all philosophical or conspiratorial, not scientific.
 * Chick Magnet: Played with. He does not seduce nor really attract any girl in the game. But it's being hinted that:  is getting interested by him over the course of the game;   was charmed by him so he could have access to her knowledge;   admired the man. However, women are constantly complimenting him on his looks, such as his old partner and random women in the Hive.
 * Besides that though, he's really bad with women. He's been duped at least twice by femmes fatales and there is his horrible attempt to charm Malik. Smooth move, Jensen
 * He is a little more successful (and plays the trope somewhat straighter) with Lady Sutherland in the comics
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Corporate Samurai: Though his corporate loyalty depends on player-choice.
 * Cutscene Incompetence: Despite possessing a personal radar, Jensen gets caught by surprise by the huge, lumbering Barret, who isn't even disguising his loud, clanking footsteps. Later on, he is out-witted by.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: The Mexicantown Incident.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Deadpan Snarker

"I like everyone, Doctor Reed."

"Something something, death and taxes. Confucius.""

"Adam: You bastard!"
 * Does Not Know His Own Strength: One of the trailers shows him trying to use his artificial arms, accidentally cracking a glass cup.
 * A stylized still of this is used as a loading screen background.
 * Expy: Of J.C. Denton. Guttural Growler who wears Sunglasses At Night investigating The Conspiracy.
 * Electronic Eyes: He has these, as shown in the trailers (even provides one of the page pictures). In game, however, they're always hidden behind his Cool Shades.
 * Emergency Transformation: His body can take it!
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has an Anti-Hero one that starts above his left eyebrow and curves down across his cheek; presumably a holdover from when he got half his face shot off in the prologue.
 * Green Eyes: Blink and they'll be forever lost to the Cool Shades.
 * Although they're only green after his operation. Sarif apparently wasn't concerned with keeping Adam's eye colour the same.
 * Guile Hero: Once you have the CASIE augmentation equipped, you can manipulate almost every important character in the game to help you or make your job easier.
 * Technically, you can do it without the CASIE aug, it just makes it easier.
 * Guttural Growler: Though his voice is actually an octave or two higher than normal for this; he just sounds hoarse. It is notable that his voice is more normal in the intro, if quiet and soft, and only becomes more hoarse and guttural when he is augmented.
 * Kleptomaniac Hero: Even though he's Sarif's head of security, it's entirely possible that you'll make him break into his co-workers' offices and swipe everything that isn't nailed down.
 * Lampshaded later on, when
 * Mysterious Past: According to the P.I. hired by Sarif, there were no traces of Adam Jensen before his fifth birthday. However, it seems he was . Ultimately, it turns out that   Furthermore, during The Missing Link DLC, you can learn that
 * Not So Stoic: He shows much more emotion when talking than JC or Alex, in particular, during persuasion sequences.
 * Or when.
 * Or when.


 * Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: He normally has a "Hollywood Standard" accent, but he sometimes shows hints of a New York one, and occasionally hints of his VA's Canadian pronunciation creep in.
 * Fridge Brilliance / Truth in Television: As well as Jensen, more than a few of the Detroit-based characters (Pritchard and Malik most notably) exhibit an occasional Canadian leaning in their accents, which isn't heard so noticeably in the other hub cities. Detroit is within rock-throwing distance of Windsor, ON, and lots of locals' accents feature greater or lesser degrees of West/Central Canadian blended in with the Inland North background.
 * Rage Against the Reflection: He's smashed his bathroom mirror at least once, much to the annoyance of his landlord.
 * Real Men Wear Pink: His trenchcoat has a subtle floral print on the shoulders.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: The voice actors for Adam and Megan are married.
 * Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Refusing a direct order to, and seeing the fallout after another officer did follow the order, is what caused him to quit SWAT.
 * Seeker Archetype
 * Street Smart: Goes with being an ex-cop and chief security manager.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene: In the beginning of The Missing Link DLC.
 * Warrior Therapist: Adam becomes this if you correctly handle the conversations with.
 * He can even convince an extremely anti-Aug man to, as well as admit that Jensen has "a lot of heart, for a robot". Notable in that the man if Adam doesn't talk him out of it.
 * The Watchmaker: Evidence in his apartment shows that he has been practicing clock-making as physical therapy to build dexterity in his prosthetic hands.
 * We Can Rebuild Him: Lampshaded when he is explicitly compared to Robo Cop.
 * Working With the Ex: Adam and Megan broke up not too long before the game began, but still act very close. It's not made all that obvious either, so you can easily think that the two are still together at the time of the attack.
 * We Can Rebuild Him: Lampshaded when he is explicitly compared to Robo Cop.
 * Working With the Ex: Adam and Megan broke up not too long before the game began, but still act very close. It's not made all that obvious either, so you can easily think that the two are still together at the time of the attack.

Megan Reed


"Voice: Michelle Boback"

Adam's ex-girlfriend, and one of the senior scientists at Sarif Industries, who makes an important discovery regarding augmentation.

Tropes:

 * At the very least,
 * Hot Scientist
 * Like Mother, Like Daughter: Her mother, Cassandra, is also a scientist who tends to bury herself in her work.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: The voice actors for Adam and Megan are married.
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge: She is killed in the very first mission of the game.
 * Woman in White
 * Like Mother, Like Daughter: Her mother, Cassandra, is also a scientist who tends to bury herself in her work.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: The voice actors for Adam and Megan are married.
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge: She is killed in the very first mission of the game.
 * Woman in White
 * Stuffed Into the Fridge: She is killed in the very first mission of the game.
 * Woman in White

David Sarif


"Voice: Steve Shellen"

He is the founder and CEO of Sarif Industries. He pushes augmentation so much that he gets upset if Adam does not buy a Praxis kit from a LIMB clinic as soon as possible.

Tropes:

 * Benevolent Boss: Offers good pay and great benefits, and genuinely cares about his people. On top of that, after Megan and her research team are killed in the assault on the lab, an e-mail is sent out to all employees stating that if any of them need to talk, his door is always open.
 * That being said, he does.
 * Evolutionary Levels: He believes that those who can naturally handle augmentations are superior.
 * Genre Savvy:
 * Also, at the beginning of the game, he sends Adam in first, before SWAT. The hacker was counting on SWAT's entrance to give him warning and cover his escape, as you find out if you get the intel from Zeke Sanders. Cue Jensen waltzing in and derailing the plan.
 * Honest Corporate Executive: He's more than willing to cut corners and bend rules to preserve Sarif Industries, makes some shady decisions and is less honest with Adam than he really should be,.
 * Amusingly, during the discussion Jensen has with him about the firewall hole, the 'corporate conflict resolution' approach (using "I" and "that makes me feel" statements instead of "you" statements, and generally trying to stay on task) will have a much greater success rate than berating him. If you play your cards right, he apologizes repeatedly and seems worried that he might have screwed up by the end.
 * I Own This Town: He is responsible for many of the changes in Detroit, and claims to control the retirement funds of the local police.
 * Pastimes Prove Personality: Sarif really likes baseball. He's got a ball in his office that he tends to toss around during conversations, and one of his televisions is always tuned to a Tigers game. (Given that he's the wealthiest man in Detroit, it's entirely possible that he owns the team.) This ties into his competitive sensibilities, but also acknowledges that he's sort of a kid at heart, with his fascination on augmentation and his desire to bring it to the masses. In a subtle but rather significant sign of trust, when Adam returns from Hengsha for the first time, David leaves his baseball on Adam's desk.
 * According to Word of God, Sarif's arm is augmented because he "had it removed to play better at the company baseball games."
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: Relatively speaking. He's certainly not above playing dirty to get the job done, but he comes off as reasonable and laid-back, and
 * The People First: In Panchea
 * Plus, it's mentioned several times by people like Athene that Sarif was trying to make a family-like vibe for his employees. Apparently they weren't lying.
 * Voice With an Internet Connection
 * Waistcoat of Style
 * Wide Eyed Idealist: Wants to make augmentation accessible for all of humanity, believing it to be the next step in evolution.

Francis "Frank" Pritchard


"Voice: Andreas Apergis"

Head of Sarif Industries' IT department. His computer skills make him a highly valued employee, but his adversarial attitude towards his coworkers hasn't won him many friends among them.

Tropes:
""About time! What, did you get stuck in an airduct on the way here?"
 * Deadpan Snarker

"Jensen, I know your body's been going through a lot of changes lately, but you didn't become a woman. Stay out of the ladies' restroom."

"Want to know how? Oh wait! I forgot! Ex-cop!"

"Well, if it isn't Mahatma Ghandi himself, come to save us all with his life-preserving presence!""

"Frank: Got it. And, Jensen-- don't get yourself killed. Okay?
 * Defrosting Ice King:
 * Dueling Hackers: Nucl3arsnake/Frank Pritchard vs Windmill/Arie van Bruggen, though it seems that Frank is the better of the two. From the frustration that Windmill expresses in his e-mails, Frank was doing just fine keeping him at bay; it wasn't until Windmill discovered Sarif's backdoor access that he was able to get into Sarif Industries' system. In other words, Van Bruggen needed the computer security equivalent of leaving a bank vault completely open and unlocked to beat Pritchard.
 * Insufferable Genius: He thinks of himself as a genius, and it's his willingness to tell anyone and everyone about this fact that makes him insufferable.
 * Jerkass: He is most likely the sole reason there are no throwable objects in Sarif Industries.
 * Jerkass Has a Point: He's the one who is first to notice that a 24-hour global news network office like Picus should definitely not be empty.
 * And you really shouldn't be in the ladies' restroom.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Sure, he's not the nicest guy around, but he's not actually a bad person. He does his job well, cares about Sarif Industries, and . He also.
 * Mission Control
 * Tsundere: Type A, to Jensen.

Adam: Aw, Francis, I didn't know you cared.

Frank: Don't flatter yourself. I care about the security of this company. You getting yourself killed compromises that. So don't be stupid."

"Picus Editor: They want a hero who's not afraid to get physical, rather than one who skulks in the shadows and ducks for cover behind intellicam. To be honest, the main character seems somewhat underhanded and obsequious."
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Adam. He's a jerk, but he's your best ally throughout the game.
 * Voice With an Internet Connection
 * Write Who You Know: The lead of his TV pitch is an obvious Author Avatar.
 * It's also an amusing parallel to a lot of Adam's actions, should the player decide to take a stealth, pacifist, and Guile Hero approach to the game.
 * It's also an amusing parallel to a lot of Adam's actions, should the player decide to take a stealth, pacifist, and Guile Hero approach to the game.

Athene Margoulis
"Voice: Susan Glover"

An old friend of David Sarif, as well as his Executive Assistant. She is fiercely loyal to him, having worked for Sarif Industries since its founding.

Faridah Malik


"Voice: Paula Jean Hixson"

The pilot of Sarif Industries VTOL aircraft. She flies Sarif, Adam, and other company personnel wherever they need to go, and provides Adam with overwatch on some of his missions. She lived in Heng Sha for a few years and has personal connections there.

Tropes:

 * Badass
 * Badass Normal:, she will kick some ass on your behalf towards the end of the game, saving you a lot of trouble.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: On discovery that her friend was murdered, she (with Jensen's help) got the man responsible to confess, then hacked the Hive's external televisions to show the confession to everyone.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Beauty Mark
 * : Though it can be averted.
 * Genre Savvy: She'll know if Adam uses the CASIE mod on her and will call him out on it.
 * Just Friends: It's hinted she is developing feelings for Adam, though most of Jensen's actions and responses to her are largely up to the player..
 * Kuudere: Type 1. She's calm, composed and not a little snarky but she will
 * Voice With an Internet Connection: In Hengsha.
 * Just Friends: It's hinted she is developing feelings for Adam, though most of Jensen's actions and responses to her are largely up to the player..
 * Kuudere: Type 1. She's calm, composed and not a little snarky but she will
 * Voice With an Internet Connection: In Hengsha.

Declan Faherty


"Voice: Marcel Jeannin"

A older scientist who works for Megan.

Tropes:

 * Cool Old Guy: Out of the original Sarif scientists, he's . And he has a cool accent.
 * In Dublin's Fair City: Where he was born and raised.
 * In Dublin's Fair City: Where he was born and raised.

Eric Koss


"Voice: Alex Ivanovici"

Another member of Megan's science team. He has an idea about what might be wrong with Faherty's work and suggests that a new cytometer will solve that problem... which will come with a free cappuccino maker.

Tropes:

 * The Generic Guy: Other than his taste for coffee, he isn't given a whole lot of characterization..
 * The Generic Guy: Other than his taste for coffee, he isn't given a whole lot of characterization..

Nia Colvin


"Voice: Leni Parker"

She is first seen berating a worker for dropping boxes that are worth more than his salary.

Vasili Sevchenko


"Voice: Matt Holland"

This Sarif Industries scientist is heavily involved with the Typhoon project.

Tim Carella
"Voice: Matt Holland"

A Sarif Industries lab tech who seeks out Adam's help with a personal problem:


 * Nervous Wreck: Not that it's without cause.
 * Precision F-Strike: "I... uh... I fucked up bad..."

Brian Tindall
"Voice: Shawn Baichoo"

A former Sarif Industries cyber-security tech who was fired after Pritchard caught him tampering with security footage, so that Tindall could give it away to   He uses the footage he edited out of the recording to.
 * Of course, seems to take a hit when you find an email in Double-T's computer talking about Tindall.

The Tyrants in general


The Tyrants are a group of elite black ops augumented soldiers employed by the conspiracy in charge of furthering its aims by any means necessary. In the game, they are referred to as a.

Tropes:

 * Five-Bad Band: In The Icarus Effect tie-in novel at least. Only Namir, Federova and Barret appear in the game proper.
 * Big Bad: Jaron Namir
 * The Dragon: Lawrence Barrett
 * Evil Genius: Scott Hardesty
 * The Brute:
 * Dark Chick: Yelena Federova
 * Sixth Ranger: Ben Saxon
 * Meaningful Name: They are named after the latin word "Tyrannus", meaning "One who takes control with their own actions".
 * Meaningful Name: They are named after the latin word "Tyrannus", meaning "One who takes control with their own actions".

Lawrence Barrett


"Voice: Al Goulem"

Tropes:

 * Animal Motifs: Bull
 * Arm Cannon: Has an arm that transforms into a minigun.
 * The Big Easy: He is from Louisiana, and in e-mails he makes references to swamps.
 * The Brute
 * Shout-Out: To Barret from Final Fantasy VII, another Square character with an Arm Cannon (although the developers have stated that it wasn't intentional to start with).
 * Shout-Out: To Barret from Final Fantasy VII, another Square character with an Arm Cannon (although the developers have stated that it wasn't intentional to start with).
 * Shout-Out: To Barret from Final Fantasy VII, another Square character with an Arm Cannon (although the developers have stated that it wasn't intentional to start with).

Yelena Federova


"Voice: Leni Parker"

Tropes:

 * Animal Motifs: Mantis
 * Axe Crazy
 * Broken Bird: Eliza describes her as such.
 * Coitus Ensues: In the novel, between her and Saxon. Even he doesn't understand why she does it.
 * Femme Fatale
 * Guns Akimbo
 * Invisibility Cloak: Makes far more use of this than the others.
 * She's Got Legs
 * Slasher Smile
 * Statuesque Stunner: While her height before being augmented is unknown, her official augmented height is a staggering 6 feet 7 inches.
 * Tactical Suicide Boss: Turning invisible in a small maze: good idea. Turning invisible in a small maze with water covering the floor: less-good idea. Doing all of the above and throwing bombs around willy nilly in a place with fragile generators that electrify said floor: pretty stupid.
 * The Voiceless: Not even her fellow mercs can remember the last time she spoke. She still reads and writes, though.

Jaron Namir


"Voice: Michael Rudder"

Tropes:

 * Animal Motifs: Serpent
 * Badass Israeli
 * Body Horror: He looks like a skinless human,
 * Dead Little Sister: Called Melina. Her name.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: His reason for taking in the morally-conflicted Ben Saxon into the Tyrants during the events of Icarus Effect is to balance out the Complete Monsters that otherwise occupy the team.
 * Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Unlike the other mercenaries he commands, Namir has a wife and two children, and the novel implies that he goes to great lengths to keep them in the dark about the nature of his work.
 * Manipulative Bastard: He openly admits this to  in the novel after the latter.
 * Precision F-Strike: From the novel, after  do not go according to plan - "This entire operation is turning into a clusterfuck!"
 * Precision F-Strike: From the novel, after  do not go according to plan - "This entire operation is turning into a clusterfuck!"

Scott Hardesty

 * Blade Below the Shoulder: One of his cybernetic hands turns into a sharpened blade.
 * Cold Sniper
 * Jerkass: His attitude to Saxon.
 * Jerkass: His attitude to Saxon.


 * Call Forward / Mythology Gag: Two of them; his introduction in the novel has him, and he tells   just before their second duel that  , which is one of his.
 * Defeat Equals Friendship: Averted after  defeats him in combat. His general manner of indifference doesn't change, but he relishes the opportunity for a rematch when it comes.
 * Determinator: Over the course of the novel, he gets . He survives it all.

Ben Saxon
One of the deutagonists of The Icarus Effect. A former SAS trooper and Belltower mercenary, Saxon is recruited into the Tyrants by Jaron Namir after his squad are killed in action due to compromised intelligence. Although initially loyal to Namir, Saxon eventually begins to question the Tyrants' true objectives and the masters they serve.

Tropes:

 * Coitus Ensues: Between him and Federova. Even he doesn't understand why she does it.
 * Determinator: Towards the end of the novel, he takes  and still fights his way to , whereupon he takes even MORE punishment  , but he still manages to.
 * A Father to His Men: Part of why he takes his unit's betrayal and his mens' deaths so hard.
 * Mean Brit: Subverted - although he acts it towards Hardesty when he points out that Namir didn't recruit him for his personality, he remains cordial to the rest of his coworkers and undeniably loyal to his former squadmates.
 * Redemption Earns Life: His decisions to  end up saving his life when.
 * Spanner in The Works:  For all of his efforts in ruining
 * Spanner in The Works:  For all of his efforts in ruining


 * Manipulative Bastard: Implied in the original but wasn't shown as much. In this game and the Missing Link DLC, we get to see he's a master of this.
 * Role Reprisal: Even though it's been a good ten years since the first game, they went out of their way to get the guy who voiced him in the first game.
 * Some of his emails have him insisting that people call him, and he doesn't shy away from smile emoticons in his messages.
 * Role Reprisal: Even though it's been a good ten years since the first game, they went out of their way to get the guy who voiced him in the first game.
 * Some of his emails have him insisting that people call him, and he doesn't shy away from smile emoticons in his messages.
 * Some of his emails have him insisting that people call him, and he doesn't shy away from smile emoticons in his messages.

Belltower in general
Belltower is an umbrella group of private military contractors who provide a maximum spectrum private military/security solution. Their special operation forces


 * Law Enforcement, Inc.: They are the de facto police in Heng Sha.
 * Private Military Contractors
 * Psychos For Hire
 * Villain With Good Publicity: Picus tries to make them the heroes when they're mentioned. You'll see that they aren't above torture, kidnapping and murdering dozens of people just to arrest one person.

Narhari Kahn
"Voice: Al Goulem"

Commander of Belltower operations in Heng Sha and Zhao Yun Ru's direct subordinate. Seems to have little to no regard for collateral damage resulting from the carrying out of his tasks.


 * Butt Monkey: Not exactly, considering how capable he is, but players get four, count 'em, four chances to shoot/stab/punch him in the face. If they go non-lethal, they can lay him out all four times.
 * Scary Black Man: His standard armament is usually a heavy rifle, and he's armored to the teeth. While not exactly Axe Crazy, he's more than willing to kill anyone standing between him and his goal.
 * Actually, he is Axe Crazy; a conversation heard in Tai Yong Medical between two of his subordinates tells of an incident in the Hive when a girl looked at him the wrong way; he slammed both her and her boyfriend face-first into the bar.
 * Kick the Dog: During the raid on the

Pieter Burke
"Voice: Frank Schorpion"

Appearing in The Missing Link DLC as it's primary antagonist, Pieter Burke is the commander of Belltower's special ops group. He's currently positioned on Rifleman Bank Station, ostensibly an offshore oil rig owned by Belltower to incarcarate criminal dissidents.


 * Bling Bling Bang: He owns a custom designed golden revolver.
 * Lack of Empathy
 * Pragmatic Villainy: When informed that some of the soldiers on base are raping the women prisoners, he orders a complete stop and promises to make examples of those who don't comply.
 * The Sociopath: EVEN MORE SO than any of The Tyrants combined.
 * Troll:

Netanya Keitner
"Voice: Catherine Kidd"

Also appearing in The Missing Link, Keitner is Burke's second in command and the director of operations at Rifleman Bank Station.


 * : This is averted, surprisingly..
 * : This is averted, surprisingly..
 * : This is averted, surprisingly..
 * : This is averted, surprisingly..


 * Fashionable Asymmetry: ZigZagged, her right arm is augmented and black in contrast to her natural left arm but she wears a black sleeve on her left arm that matches the augmentations. The sleeve makes it more subtle asymmetry but changes it to one bare arm and one sleeved one.
 * Good Cop, Bad Cop: While she's first shown beating the hell out of Adam, once she stops punching him, she displays something close to pity. Adam informs her that she can't play both the good cop and the bad cop..
 * Mother to Her Men: Implied. There is a very clear split in loyalties, with Keitner's soldiers being committed to her despite Burke's authority.
 * : Also averted..
 * Mother to Her Men: Implied. There is a very clear split in loyalties, with Keitner's soldiers being committed to her despite Burke's authority.
 * : Also averted..
 * : Also averted..

Wayne Haas


"Voice: Marcel Jeannin"

He was Adam's former SWAT commander but is presently the desk jockey for a poor precinct of the Detroit Police Department.


 * The Atoner: He is looking for absolution for his role in inciting the Mexicantown Riots.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: The Mexicantown Incident.
 * My Greatest Failure: As if the whole Mexicantown Incident wasn't enough, others also make comments about the fact that he's a desk jockey. For example, Chet Wagner disparagingly comments on the idea of ending up like "Secretary Haas over there."

Jenny Alexander
"Voice: Lucinda Davis"

A friend of Adam's from his first four years on the Detroit Police force. Currently working undercover as a prostitute just outside of Derelict Row.


 * By-The-Book Cop: Claims to usually be this, but going by the book doesn't work when your target's a friend of the publisher.
 * Dirty Harriet
 * Fair Cop: Jensen can even comment on it.
 * Stripperific

Jack O'Malley
"Voice: Victor Young"


 * Affably Evil: He can be persuaded to pay Adam part of the hitman's fee upfront, and even after, he's quite polite and understanding about it. Unless , in which case all bets are off.
 * Dirty Cop
 * Properly Paranoid: Jenny calls him paranoid; considering he's a dirty cop who's, it's hard to blame him for taking numerous and varied precautions. Of course...
 * Villain Ball: ...he seems quite happy to explain his Evil Plan to a hitman he's never met before and knows nothing about.
 * Smug Snake

Chet Wagner
"Voice: James Rankin"


 * Dirty Cop
 * Dirty Coward: One threat is all it takes. Granted, it's a pretty impressive threat, but still.
 * Fantastic Racism: Makes about one anti-Aug slur per sentence before Jensen either intimidates or blackmails him.
 * Jerkass: Even a station-wide e-mail sent out warning officers that anti-Aug/anti-Natural slurs will be met with harsh punishment still doesn't stop him from calling Adam things like 'chrome boy' and 'metalhead'.
 * Too Dumb to Live: Adam threatens to flat-out murder him in the middle of the police station. All Wagner would have had to do was hit the alarm, prompting every officer in the place to immediately run over and gun Jensen down. Instead, he folds like a bad poker hand.

Officer Nicholas
"Voice: Shawn Baichoo"


 * Police Are Useless
 * Nervous Wreck

Sir Hugh Darrow
"Voice: Arthur Holden"

A billionaire and Nobel Prize winner who knows David Sarif personally. He was important to the development of augmentations as well. He is currently working on a project named "Panchaea," a massive hole in the ocean that is supposed to change global warming, and has other geoengineering projects planned. Picus tries to give somewhat favorable coverage of this project (presumably due to Picus having been founded by Hugh's father).

Tropes:

 * Genius Cripple: He's missing an arm, has a leg brace, and walks with a vaguely sci-fi-looking cane. It's visually distinctive, but becomes even more so once you realize how much it sticks out in a world where medical augmentations exist.
 * Handicapped Badass:
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Is that Mr. Ratburn as the father of augmentation?
 * : Calling him on this is
 * Handicapped Badass:
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Is that Mr. Ratburn as the father of augmentation?
 * : Calling him on this is
 * : Calling him on this is

Mengyao
"Voice: Vicky Wong"

One of Darrow's representatives, involved in the Panchaea project.

Dr. Vera Marcovic
"Voice: Leni Parker"

She works at the L.I.M.B. clinic in Detroit. Unlike David Sarif, she believes that Adam should have more choice regarding the progress of his augmentations.

Zhao Yun Ru
"Voice: Jane Luk"

The CEO of Tai Yong Medical, a Chinese bio-tech company seeking to become the world leader in the augumentation market and a direct competitor to Sarif Industries. She appears in one of the trailers informing Adam about "these men" who "control global interests on a whim."

Tropes:

 * Corrupt Corporate Executive: Her overall goal is to ruthlessly eliminate Tai Yong's competition and establish a monopoly on the augmentation market
 * Distracted By The Feeling Up: She uses this technique on Adam.
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy: Relatively minor but
 * Dragon Lady: She is commonly referred to as the Dragon Queen, her dress is a combination of traditional Chinese wear and neo-Renaissance frills,
 * Large Ham: Listen to her when she's trying to convince Jensen she's not a bad girl.
 * Large Ham: Listen to her when she's trying to convince Jensen she's not a bad girl.
 * Large Ham: Listen to her when she's trying to convince Jensen she's not a bad girl.

Zeke Sanders/
"Voice: Danny Blanco Hall"

Leader of the Purity First militant organization, best-known for leading an attack on Sarif Industries at their Milwaukee Junction manufacturing plant.

Tropes:

 * Enemy Mine: If you talk him into releasing the hostage and allow him to escape, he will give you the access codes for the FEMA camp in Highland Park in exchange later.
 * Eyepatch of Power: To replace the cybereye he had removed.
 * Gratuitous Spanish: Uses a lot of Spanish slang in conversation, and frequently swaps out English terms for Spanish ones in emails to his men.
 * I Gave My Word: When he says that he considers his debt to Adam repaid, he means it. He will not hesitate to kill Adam during Purity First's next big operation. This can be cut short if you're either Properly Paranoid or Genre Savvy and kill him right then and there after he gives you the codes.
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran: He was injured by an IED in Afghanistan, developing PTSD as a result, which probably contributed to his bad reaction to getting augmented.
 * Unwitting Pawn: His operation was used as a cover by  to get their hacker into Sarif's manufacturing plant.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: He and Purity First are far more militant in their desire to end augmentation than Humanity Front..

William Taggart
"Voice: Bruce Dinsmore"

The founder of Humanity Front and the leader of the anti-augmentation movement.

Tropes:

 * Brainwashing for The Greater Good: Possibly. He has a rehab center in Utah, where people are apparently 'convinced' to get rid of their augmentations.
 * Break the Haughty: If you win the persuasion battle with him can result in this. Particularly sweet on account of the whole "in front of TV conference" aspect.
 * The Fundamentalist: The Humanity Front's anti-augmentation policy seems to be largely based around not 'playing God' or 'upsetting the way human beings are meant to be'. As it turns out, this is just a technique to rally the lowest common denominator; Taggart's actual concern about aug research is that
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Apparently, Dave Read has become a anti-augmentation speaker.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Apparently, Dave Read has become a anti-augmentation speaker.

Isaias Sandoval
"Voice: Matt Holland"

A former surgeon and currently Taggart's right-hand man. He is opposed to augmentation because of the effects he observed on his patients in the past.

Derelict Row Ballers
Detroit's largest street gang, they are rabidly anti-augmentation and control an area surrounding an abandoned textile plant in downtown Detroit.


 * Fantastic Racism: Against augmented individuals.

Motor City Bangers
Detroit's second-largest street gang. Not as large as the DRB, but they make up for it by embracing augmentations to make each individual member more formidable.


 * Bling Bling Bang: They sure like gold-plated cyberlimbs.

Harvesters
This vicious triad from Hengsha is so-named because they attack augmented people in order to steal their implants, which they then sell on the black market or install in themselves.


 * Body Horror: They rip the cybernetic parts out of you and sell them.
 * Scary Black Man: Their membership contains a high quantity of black men with American accents and deep voices, despite the fact that they are a gang based in a Chinese city.
 * Could be considered Truth in Television; many Asian crime syndicates will employ expat foreigners in low-level positions because institutional racism often prevents them from finding legitimate work. It's also possible that Hengsha, like Dubai in real life, was constructed largely by immigrant laborers, which would provide a large pool of expat foreigners for the Harvesters to draw from.

Tong Si Hung
"Voice: Dennis Akiyama"

The owner of the popular Hengsha nightclub, The Hive, as well as the biggest crime lord in the city's underworld.

"Jensen: Tong! How did you get this frequency?
 * Deadpan Snarker: Tong is one of the snarkiest bastards in the game.

Tong: Ancient Chinese secret."


 * King Incognito: Adam perceives him as this, but he insults Adam for not figuring it out during their first conversation. Adam can actually spot him as such if he has the social aug.
 * : Don't
 * Red Right Hand: It's never explained where his horrible facial scarring came from, but it's a good bet it has something to do with why he also has a cyberarm.
 * Third Person Person: When talking to Adam at the bar, though he switches once his identity is revealed.
 * The Triads and The Tongs: He leads Hengsha's local triad gang, the Harvesters.

Bobby Bao
"Voice: Russell Yuen"

The main bartender of the Hive, who also helps to run the shadier side of Tong's business.


 * Loan Shark: Bao runs a Shylock scam for the Harvesters, offering to give people augmentations for no money up front, then shaking them down for monthly payments afterwards.

Arie Van Bruggen
"Voice: Alex Ivanovici"

The hacker who was puppeting the infiltrator during the second attack on Sarif Industries, he uses the screen-name "Windmill" and is also called the "Dutchman" even though his accent is more Caribbean.

"HIVE-MASTER@THEHIVE.HI.PRC : make sure 301 gets whatever the fuck he wants. boys, girls, internet access, sodan noodles, or the fucking moon."
 * Dirty Coward: When dealing with Adam, he is confident and suave. When Belltower comes to get him, his behavior suddenly degrades drastically.
 * To be fair, Belltower did just make a Dynamic Entry through the roof and . All he asks is that Adam give him a weapon so he can defend himself as he makes his escape.
 * Dueling Hackers: Nucl3arsnake/Frank Pritchard vs Windmill/Arie van Bruggen, though it seems that Frank is the better of the two. From the frustration that Windmill expresses in his e-mails, Frank was doing just fine keeping him at bay; it wasn't until Windmill discovered Sarif's backdoor access that he was able to get into Sarif Industries' system. In other words, Van Bruggen needed the computer security equivalent of leaving a bank vault completely open and unlocked to beat Pritchard.
 * Misplaced Accent
 * Playful Hacker: "I am looking at your bank account, and... you know, Sarif really ought to pay you more..."
 * Straight Gay: "Sorry, man, you're not my type."
 * Bi the Way: Possibly, if an e-mail sent to the landlord of Alice Garden Pods can be believed.


 * If you look at all the sticky notes plastered around the computer in his apartment, you'll find several with phone numbers and girls' names written on them.

Brent Radford
"Voice: Al Goulem"

An aged private investigator who used to be a detective. .


 * : He'd rather, as he believes that augs have lost their humanity.
 * Fantastic Racism: Uses the harshest anti-Aug slurs heard in the game, calling Adam a 'robot' and telling Adam that he's not even human. He asks Adam what it was like to die, and whether Adam even has a soul, or if that was taken out of him when he was "built". He also refers to Adam's augmented body as a "metal corpse". Damn.
 * Guide Dang It: You can, but you need the CASIE upgrade to do it.
 * : He asks Adam to give him . Adam can choose whether or not to oblige him.
 * Jerkass: To augmented people. Just look at what he says to Adam, even though Adam.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: He's more concerned about welfare than his own, despite the fact that he's never met ; all he knows is that  kind and that Adam owes  his life. Radford insists that Adam get to  before Adam's enemies do, and implores him to save.
 * Pet the Dog: For all that he considers Adam to be inhuman, he still . Depending on the dialogue chosen, he may decide that Adam's "got a lot of heart, for a robot".

Cassandra Reed
"Voice: Susan Glover"

Megan's mother, and dissatisfied with the investigation into her death.


 * Good Mother: If you check Megan's computer at the beginning of the game, there's an e-mail message from Cassandra expressing her concern and asking Megan to call her more often.
 * Hot Mom
 * Hot Scientist
 * Like Mother, Like Daughter: The same e-mail mentioned above also reveals that Cassandra is scientist, and she often buries herself in her work. She even uses the phrase verbatim.

Lee Hong
"Voice: Zen Shane Lim"

The ex-boyfriend of one of Malik's deceased friends.


 * Cluster F-Bomb: Not that he was particularly reserved beforehand, but hit all the right answers, and he will carpet bomb the area.
 * It's All About Me:
 * Jerkass
 * The Password Is Always Swordfish: His door code is pathetically easy to guess, presumably because anything more complicated would be too hard to remember.
 * What an Idiot!: In-universe. Faridah outright states that he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. . Also, his door code? 1234.
 * The Password Is Always Swordfish: His door code is pathetically easy to guess, presumably because anything more complicated would be too hard to remember.
 * What an Idiot!: In-universe. Faridah outright states that he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. . Also, his door code? 1234.
 * What an Idiot!: In-universe. Faridah outright states that he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. . Also, his door code? 1234.

Eliza Cassan
""This is Eliza Cassan, reporting to you live, from Picus."

Voice: Kim Bubbs"

The global celebrity Picus TV Network newsreader, who tirelessly reads news at seemingly all times.

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 * : Played with..
 * Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: A bit hard to spot, but she has black beads in her hair.
 * Fridge Brilliance:
 * Gothic Lolita: Her outfit resembles a cross between this and the neo-Renaissance look all the rage in this period.
 * Greek Chorus / Ms Exposition: Nearly every level has a couple televisions switched to Picus, where Eliza comments on the events of the plot, provides details on what's happening with the people Jensen meets, and occasionally provides some foreshadowing.
 * Green Eyes
 * : Maybe. Her certainly seems to be.
 * Mysterious Woman: Beautiful, intelligent, stylish, famous... and no one seems to know anything about her personal life.
 * Shiny Midnight Black
 * Mysterious Woman: Beautiful, intelligent, stylish, famous... and no one seems to know anything about her personal life.
 * Shiny Midnight Black
 * Shiny Midnight Black
 * Shiny Midnight Black
 * Shiny Midnight Black

Lady Katrina Sutherland
""I'm game if you are, but equally, it might be nice to take a little break from murder and mayhem and maybe stop off somewhere for cocktails.""

A heavily-augmented freelance mercenary from the six-issue comic run.

"Malik: What the hell, Jensen? You went in there looking for some uber-geek computer-genius like Pritchard and came out with Lara Croft?"
 * Artificial Limbs
 * Badass
 * Action Girl: With a hint of Dark Action Girl.
 * Badass Transplant: She's probably about as augmented as Adam.
 * Hot Amazon
 * Lady of War
 * Blue Blood: That's Lady Katrina Sutherland, thank you.
 * British Accent: It's commented on more than once.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * : strikes again.
 * Emergency Transformation: She was augmented after being thrown from her horse and then trampled.
 * Expy: She's a tall, beautiful, snarky, gun-wielding, upper-class, badass British woman of adventure.


 * Femme Fatale: She looks like she's going to be this, but it's averted.
 * Naked First Impression: Adam bursts in on her shower. All things considered, she takes it well.
 * : Played alarmingly straight.
 * We Can Rebuild Her: What MI-5 promised her if she agreed to work for them. She accepted.
 * We Can Rebuild Her: What MI-5 promised her if she agreed to work for them. She accepted.

Lazarus
"Voice: Harry Standjofski"

This abrasive, foul-mouthed commentator tirelessly talks on his radio show at all times. He comments on practically everything, but mainly focuses on conspiracy theories and the politics surrounding augmentation.


 * Cassandra Truth: Completing the game reveals that he had a lot of good points.
 * Coincidental Broadcast: For example, while Adam is in Hengsha, this guy just happens to be talking about Hengsha.
 * Large Ham
 * Meaningful Name: This is a series with important named people like J.C, Paul, and Adam. He's named Lazarus.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: His character sounds like and is inspired by Alex Jones.

Letitia
"Voice: Amanda Strawn"

One of Adam's street informants back when he was a cop, this woman sifts through trash in order to find food. Her favorite drink is Maharaja Hot Devil beer. She is most-well-known for behaving like a very stereotypical black person.


 * Jive Turkey: Quite painfully so for a lot of people.
 * The Nicknamer: She always refers to Adam as "The Captain" or some variation thereof.
 * Sassy Black Woman
 * Street Smart