Parasite Eve (video game)/Characters

A list of characters from the Survival Horror mini-franchise Parasite Eve, with a primary focus on the games by Square Enix since not too many people have read the original novel/seen The Movie thereof, which needs some Wiki Magic to fix.

Aya Brea


A 25-year-old police officer whose life changes when a date At the Opera Tonight (tonight being Christmas Eve 1997) goes horribly wrong. As the only person to not not-so-spontaneously combust upon the awakening of Mitochondria Eve, she struggles to understand and rein in her own bizarre powers while racing to stop Eve from giving birth to the Ultimate Being and destroying and/or forcibly evolving humanity in the process. .


 * Action Girl: Started off as a cop in the first game, becomes a specialized FBI agent in the 2nd game, and then becomes a CTI agent in the 3rd game.
 * Blue Eyes
 * But Not Too Foreign: Half-Japanese, mostly to tie her to the events of the novel directly..
 * Cursed with Awesome
 * Dead Little Sister: Her twin Maya. The deaths of Aya's mother and Maya was Aya's motivation to become a detective.
 * Fair Cop: Oh yes. She's caught the eyes of quite a few men. A short list includes her nameless date at the beginning of the series: Maeda, Pierce and Kyle.
 * The Heroine: The main protagonist in the first two games.
 * Hyperspace Arsenal: Said gun is always a pistol in cutscenes, but may range up to and including a rocket launcher during gameplay with no encumbrance penalty.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: Her stock flavor of angst for the first couple of chapters, peaking in an I Am a Monster-flavored Heroic BSOD.
 * It Was with You All Along:
 * It Was with You All Along:


 * Little Black Dress: During Day 1.
 * Magic Knight: Skilled with any firearm, and has a collection of powerful magic (Parasite Energies) to back her up.
 * Missing Mom: Her mother died in a car crash along with Maya. Aya was raised by her father.
 * Salt and Pepper: Aya and Daniel.
 * Small Girl, Big Gun: She can equip large rifles and finds a rocket launcher about 3/4 into the game. In the sequel, one of her unlockable weapons is a portable railgun that sends her back a few feet whenever she fires it!
 * Won't Work On Me/Only I Can Kill Her/The Immune: Her immunity to Eve's powers makes her the only one that can fight her effectively.

Mitochondria Eve


A mysterious, ancient evil that takes over the body of opera singer Melissa Pearce and sets about her master plan to reverse humanity's symbiotic relationship between the nucleus (banks of genetic information that dictate what cells grow where and when) and the mitochondria (organic powerplants that fuel cellular activity). To this end, she dissolves a solo performance crowd at Central Park into raw genetic material and allies with, to procure sperm for her Enfant Terrible, the Ultimate Being. .

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 * Badass Abnormal: See the Central Park Carriage Ride boss fight.
 * Barbie Doll Anatomy: Several of her later forms feature breasts that lack nipples, along with creative obfuscation of the pubic area.
 * Big Bad: Of the book and the first game.
 * Bishonen Line: She hits this plateau in her evolution fairly quickly, and for a freakish mutation, she looks disturbingly Fetish Fuel-worthy.
 * Body Horror: Mostly inflicts it, but she DID break that one piano early on...
 * Fan Disservice: See Barbie Doll Anatomy above. . *shudder*
 * Femme Fatalons: Eve-2's hands.
 * Green Eyes: When Eve-2 takes over Melissa's body, her eyes turn from brown to green. They stay this color from then on out.
 * Hannibal Lecture: Loves giving these during her We Can Rule Together speeches to Aya, rambling about how the nucleus is long overdue for a subversion of its smug superiority over the mitochondria.
 * Hoist By Her Own Petard: Never did expect that the evolution she so fervently sought would produce her own superior on the food chain...
 * Horned Hairdo: Eve-2.
 * Humanoid Abomination
 * Lady in Red: Melissa's opera gown. Eve sheds it in Day 5.
 * Living Bodysuit: Melissa Pierce.
 * Monster Is a Mommy: She wants to create an Ultimate Being by giving birth to it.
 * Multi-Armed and Dangerous: One of the forms she assumes when.
 * Playing with Fire: Her "aura" immolates people and animals (the ones that don't melt into goo or mutate).
 * Power Floats: Both Eve-1 and Eve-2 are capable of levitation.
 * Recurring Boss: She's fought many times throughout the game, in various forms.
 * Shapeshifter Mode Lock: She makes several changes throughout the game and these changes appear to be permanent.
 * The Virus

Daniel "Bo" Dollis


Aya's partner and Black Best Friend; combined, the manual refers to them as the "Father and Daughter Team" of the NYPD's 17th Precinct. His introduction is a Dynamic Entry that sets the tone for his take-no-nonsense approach to the Eve case, along with his determination to thwart any mundane threat that sets its eyes on Aya or his son Ben.


 * Alliterative Name: Daniel Dollis.
 * Amicably Divorced: Despite apperances, Daniel and Lorraine remain close. He takes her death as hard as any loving spouse would. It turns out that Lorraine was considering patching their family back together.
 * Angry Black Man: Becomes very pissed off at the antagonists for not only putting Ben's life in danger, but for also killing his ex-wife whom he planned to reconcile with so they could become a family again.
 * Badass Mustache
 * Badass Normal: Despite not having special abilities like Aya, it doesn't stop him from helping her out when it's called for and he kicks absolute ass when he does.
 * Black Best Friend
 * Dynamic Entry: The first of his several Crowning Moments of Awesome.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: Leaps from a helicopter and burns up in Eve's wake, all to deliver some Depleted Phlebotinum Shells to assist Aya in the battle. Subverted when he survives his wounds.
 * Lethal Chef: According to Aya in the sequel, he is a terrible cook.
 * Married to the Job: The reason why Lorraine left him in the first place.
 * Older Sidekick: He's older than Aya.
 * Papa Wolf: You don't mess with his son, even if you're are an evil sentient form of mitochondria.
 * Sink-or-Swim Fatherhood: Lorraine divorced him a year before the game starts, leaving him sole custody of their son Ben.

Benjamin Dollis


Daniel's son, in the custody of his ex-wife Lorraine due to his long hours on the force. Initially planned to reunite the family at Melissa Pearce's Central Park solo concert, but Eve's awakening changed all that. . Likes dogs, and is quickly introduced to the K-9 unit's Sheeva, which goes about as well as you'd expect for a game reveling in its high levels of Transformation Trauma.


 * Break the Cutie: The poor kid's heart is broken when he sees Sheeva transform into a monster and begs Aya to kill it.
 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Missing Mom: Lorraine.
 * Tagalong Kid: He was visiting his father at the police station when shit went down.

Kenneth Baker


Chief of the NYPD 17th. Joined the force at about the same time as Daniel, and still maintains casual terms with him despite their difference in rank. Takes care of Ben while Daniel and Aya are on the scene in Central Park, only to get himself injured protecting him from the mutated Sheeva.


 * Commander Contrarian
 * Da Chief: Despite not having any Cowboy Cops to his name, he's still pretty gruff: evident when Aya lets a little too much slip during a press conference on the Carnegie Hall fire investigation.
 * Desk Jockey: Became one when he was promoted to chief.
 * Large and In Charge: Very tall and stock, which suits him as the police chief.
 * Shoot the Dog: Is stuck doing this.
 * We Used to Be Friends: His imperious ways rub Daniel raw. They used to be partners before Kenneth was promoted.

Kunihiko Maeda


Japanese biologist and walking Info Dump for the events of the novel, who hopped the first plane to New York when he heard of the fire at Carnegie Hall. After rescuing Aya following her clash with Eve at Central Park, he relates the tale of the original Eve's attempt to birth an Ultimate Being and discovers the reason behind Aya's immunity to the current Eve. Afterwards, his main role is dispensor of inventory space-wasting good luck charms, including one literal Chekhov's Gun.


 * Cannot Spit It Out:.
 * Chekhov's Gun: Gives you a weak handgun late in the game. Combined with the bullets mentioned below, it becomes a lethal weapon against the final boss. Appears in the sequel as the Mongoose.
 * Depleted Phlebotinum Shells:.
 * Genius Ditz
 * Info Dump: For the Hideaki Sena novel.
 * Non-Action Guy: Since he's a scientist and serve's as the group's exposition, he has no combat experience and wisely stays out of trouble while the others do the leg work.
 * Stop Helping Me!: The trinkets are actually . You can leave old ones in storage as you acquire new ones,.

Torres Owens and Wayne Garcia
Caretakers of the 17th's weapons storage area. Torres is hell-bent on making sure guns are used responsibly, having sworn off using them since his daughter died in a mishap with a loaded one. This tends to make him clash loudly with apprentice Wayne, an adherent to the More Dakka school of gun control. Both provide Aya with the facilities to modify weapons and armor to increase their bonus slots, and space to store unneeded items.

Wayne, not being allowed to handle the guns without supervision, takes to collecting gun trading cards instead. Feed his hobby, and you'll eventually be rewarded with the Infinity Plus and/or Minus One Toolkits.


 * Shout-Out: They return (sort of) as proprietors of the Lindblum Synthesis Shop in Final Fantasy IX, and reprise their argument when you first walk in: Wayne believes the key to victory is superior weaponry, where Torres puts his faith in superior armor.
 * Straight Man and Wise Guy: Played rather seriously.

Warner, Nix and Cathy
They're also on the force.


 * Those Two Guys: Or those three guys. They serve as nothing more than background characters, and they need to be saved during Eve's attack on the police precinct.

Hans Klamp


Anthropologist at the Museum of Natural History, who is mysteriously at work despite both the Christmas holiday and an evacuation of Manhattan following Eve's audience liquification event at Central Park. .


 * Beard of Evil: Certainly fits the mold once you know his true motives.
 * Better to Die Than Be Killed: Calls on Eve to "take him" when Aya arrives to place him under arrest. He combusts.
 * Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Aya rushes to his aid after Eve sets him aflame. Characteristically, the Doc sneers at her human weakness.
 * Evil Genius: Par for the course when one is a scientist.
 * Here Comes the Science!: Where Maeda was the Info Dump for the novel, Klamp takes his Exposition Breaks expounding on an understanding of genetics as shoddy as Hideo Kojima's.
 * Karmic Death:.
 * Mad Scientist: Even before you know who he truly is, his normal self still has shades of this.
 * Misanthrope Supreme
 * A Nazi by Any Other Name
 * Non-Action Guy: Does a lot of scheming behind the scenes, but doesn't do anything directly (that's Eve's job).

Maya Brea


Is dead. Aya keeps having visions and flashbacks of her as she pursues Eve though. .

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 * Death by Origin Story: She died before the start of the story.
 * Half Identical Twin: The character models for Maya and young Aya are dangerously similar, if not recycled outright.
 * Virtual Ghost
 * Virtual Ghost
 * Virtual Ghost

Aya Brea


Ace operative of the FBI's anti-mitochondrial mutant task force MIST (Mitochondrion Investigation and Suppression Team) formed following reports of Eve's mutated animal minions spreading out from Manhattan. Three years since what has become known as the "N.Y. Blockade" incident, Aya's journey to destroy the newly-monikered "Neo-Mitochondrion Creatures" (NMCs) and put a seal on her own unpredictable powers has led her to Los Angeles. However, an investigation into an NMC outbreak near the ghost town of Dryfield, Nevada will hit closer to home than she ever imagined...

See most above tropes listed for Aya, plus:


 * Deadpan Snarker: More so in Parasite Eve II than in Parasite Eve 1 and The 3rd Birthday, mostly when you have her examine something several times. "Do I have to look in there again?" is her comment if you keep trying to make her look into a dirty toilet.
 * Elemental Powers: Which she develops in Parasite Eve II.
 * Fire: Pyrokinesis, Combustion, Inferno.
 * Wind: Necrosis, Plasma, Apobiosis.
 * Water: Metabolism, Healing, Life Drain.
 * Earth: Antibody, Energy Shot, Energy Ball.
 * Mini-Dress of Power
 * Older Than They Look: Was 25 during the first game, ought to be 27 now, looks barely 21 thanks to her mitochondria going full blast, leading to...
 * Shower Scene: No, not that! Next one!
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?: Mentioned if you check the bathroom mirror in her motel room. This is also how you know why she doesn't look like an old crone at the ripe old age of 27.

Rupert Broderick
The new Daniel. Still black, still badass, and about the same aptitude at dealing with NMCs and twisted humans alike.

See Daniel's tropes above. Yes, even Dynamic Entry.


 * Bald of Awesome: Only emphasizes how bad ass he is on duty.
 * Dead Little Sister: He lost his family during the N.Y. Blockade incident. Now he dedicates his life to exterminating neo-mitochondrion creatures.
 * Revolvers Are Just Better: He wields the Mongoose at the start of the game, which he gives to you only if you're on the Sad Ending route.

Pierce Carradine
Somewhere between "The new Wayne" and "The new Maeda" falls MIST's resident computer whiz. Though he just plain Doesn't Like Guns, that's about the only hindrance to his assistance to Aya via Hollywood Hacking or item delivery.


 * Does Not Like Guns: Lampshaded by Jodie. He's also quite bad with them, as he once tried to load 9mm Parabellum rounds into a .38 revolver (in his defense, those have only a half millimeter difference in diameter). Ironically, he oversees the shooting range at HQ.
 * Killed Off for Real: Depending on the ending route.
 * Non-Action Guy
 * Playful Hacker: Was known to do this during his spare time before he was caught by the government. Now he puts his hacking skills to use for them.
 * Sunglasses at Night: Is never seen without them.

Eric "Hal" Baldwin
Aya's new boss. Far too impersonal to call "The new Baker". .


 * Da Chief: Lite.

Jodie Bouquet
Runs MIST's BP shop (Bounty Points, not British Petroleum). Depending on how well you play the game, this may be all you remember her for.


 * Arms Dealer: She's your armory/item shop at the start.
 * Genki Girl
 * Hair Decorations
 * That Other Girl

Gary Douglas


The last living resident of Dryfield (excepting his dog Flint and the hordes of NMCs Aya's come to clean out). A Vietnam vet with a gun collection big enough to claim the title of "The new Wayne", he helps Aya resupply during the investigation despite being compensated in some newfangled RPG currency rather than cold hard cash. After Aya's car is totaled by a herd of NMCs, he also volunteers his truck to get her and Kyle (below) to an old nuclear shelter that may be the source of the infestation.


 * Arms Dealer: During the latter half of the game.
 * Big Friendly Dog: His dog Flint.
 * Cool Old Guy: Despite his gruff demeanor, he means well and assists Aya to the best of his abilities.
 * Nice Hat: Wears a ten gallon hat.
 * Retired Badass: He's a decorated Vietnam vet who lost a leg in a minefield.
 * Wall of Weapons: The caretaker thereof.

Kyle Madigan


A so-called private detective Aya encounters in Dryfield, claiming to be looking into strange shipments going into a nearby nuclear shelter once owned by a doomsday cult. Since he's one of the few Escort Mission escortees in the business who doesn't suck for some reason or another, Aya teams up with him to discover the shelter's connection to the new NMCs. .


 * Shoot the Dog: Was going to kill.
 * A Taste of Power: When teaming up with Aya for combat sequences, usually wields a cool weapon from the next shopping tier or two up.
 * We Cannot Go on Without You: Game Over for Aya if Kyle loses all 100 of his non-healable Hit Points (thankfully, he's not as screwed as he looks during the first major battle of Disc 2).
 * We Cannot Go on Without You: Game Over for Aya if Kyle loses all 100 of his non-healable Hit Points (thankfully, he's not as screwed as he looks during the first major battle of Disc 2).

Number 9
As the main series page calls him, "a Gunblade-slinging rooftop-hopping ape-like zombie cyborg supersoldier" who masterminds an NMC outbreak at the Akropolis shopping center and is apparently the last sentient resident of the Neo-Ark shelter: his colleagues having either become NMCs themselves in some half-assed transhuman orgy or been killed by said voluntary converts. .


 * BFS: Though his use of a Gunblade is more memorable, he DID pack a mean randomly-on-fire machete during his first showdown with Aya.
 * Elite Mook: Not all that evident, with anything resembling a Big Bad proper already dead.
 * Laughing Mad: He's really easily amused.
 * One Hit KO: During the first fight with him, his flame sword attack is a guaranteed kill, moreso if he's backed Aya in a corner.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Two and a half out of four ain't bad.
 * You Are Number Six: Though practically reveling in the inhumanity that this trope entails.

Eve


Wondered when she'd show up, eh? Don't expect the Nietzsche Wannabe of the last game, however: the new Eve's a Mysterious Waif and raised in isolation with the shittiest children's toys known to man... all to heighten her sense of fear and self-preservation as. At least her teddy bear's halfway normal.

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 * Brainwashed and Crazy: She was raised to be this way, amplified by being forced to wear a slave crown-esque helmet.
 * : Which leads Aya to.
 * Cute Mute: She never speaks until late in the game.
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Her prized possession is a teddy bear.
 * Mysterious Waif
 * Powered by a Forsaken Child: She was created to be used as.
 * We Cannot Go on Without You:.
 * Younger Than They Look: She has the appearance of a 10 year old girl, but was presumably "grown" in a much shorter amount of time.
 * We Cannot Go on Without You:.
 * Younger Than They Look: She has the appearance of a 10 year old girl, but was presumably "grown" in a much shorter amount of time.
 * Younger Than They Look: She has the appearance of a 10 year old girl, but was presumably "grown" in a much shorter amount of time.

Aya Brea
The main heroine of the first two Parasite Eve games. She's half-Japanese, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Because of her highly-evolved mitochondria, she has the appearance of a college student despite being in her mid-thirties.

Apart from her name, she remembers nothing about herself or her past. When the CTI (Counter Twisted Investigation team) found her, she was wearing a bloody wedding gown outside the St. Thomas Cathedral in Manhattan, either just before or just after her own wedding. After taking her into custody, the CTI realized her abilities allowed her to dive into a human's past consciousness. Understanding that this was humanity's only chance against the space and time-defying Twisted, the Overdive Investigation Unit was formed to develop a way to use Aya's powers against them.

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 * Action Girl: Started off as a cop in the first game, becomes a specialized FBI agent in the 2nd game, and then becomes a CTI agent in the 3rd game.
 * And Your Reward Is Clothes: Beat the game? Have a new dress.
 * Big Damn Heroes: At the very end.
 * Chickification: Sort of..
 * Clothing Damage: Like you wouldn't believe. While it can be quite interesting, the more skin Aya shows the more damage she takes.
 * Fairytale Wedding Dress/Pimped-Out Dress: Her wedding dress in The 3rd Birthday.
 * Fan Service: The developers Lampshade this with her Maid costume: they point out she's wearing it "for fun".
 * Hyperspace Arsenal: Her gun is always a pistol in cutscenes, but may range up to and including a rocket launcher during gameplay with no encumbrance penalty.
 * Limit Break: Liberation mode, in which Aya's powers break free of their limitations, letting her dual-wield, dance circles around enemies and fire very powerful energy blasts. Can come with a Dangerous Forbidden Technique (Inferno, which is Cast from Hit Points) if the player is inclined.
 * Out-of-Clothes Experience: When she goes into Liberation mode.
 * Shout-Out: One of her alternate costumes is Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII.
 * Shower Scene
 * Stripperific: Although she always wears her default outfit in cutscenes, some of the other outfits that she can wear are quite revealing, and that's before taking damage.
 * Out-of-Clothes Experience: When she goes into Liberation mode.
 * Shout-Out: One of her alternate costumes is Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII.
 * Shower Scene
 * Stripperific: Although she always wears her default outfit in cutscenes, some of the other outfits that she can wear are quite revealing, and that's before taking damage.
 * Stripperific: Although she always wears her default outfit in cutscenes, some of the other outfits that she can wear are quite revealing, and that's before taking damage.

Hyde Bohr
Chief researcher for the CTI and head of the Overdive Investigation Unit. A friendly mentor to Aya and the other people in his unit, he is devoted to finding a way to stop the Twisted. .


 * Team Dad
 * Team Dad
 * Team Dad
 * Team Dad
 * Team Dad
 * Team Dad

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The chief engineer of the CTI's Overdive Unit, originally hailing from South Korea. He joined the CTI at Hyde Bohr's request.


 * Heel Face Turn: At the age of 14, he was notorious for unleashing a Trojan horse that stole sensitive information. After being arrested, he ended up with a plea bargain, and began to work for the government in order to take down the communication networks of terrorists. That earned the ire of his fellow hackers, so he survived by wiping out his personal history and starting over from scratch.
 * Hollywood Hacking: His specialty.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: We never know his real name. He purposely intended it to start over from a blank slate after a life of being a malicious hacker.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: We never know his real name. He purposely intended it to start over from a blank slate after a life of being a malicious hacker.

Thelonious Cray
Formerly a Special Ops combat specialist, he left his squad to join the CTI team. Soon after, his whole squad was annihilated in the ill-fated Operation Red Fog. Was outside of St. Thomas Cathedral at the time of SWAT raid. .



Gabrielle Monsigny
A special agent in the CTI's Overdive Investigation Unit. Her friendship with Aya is a sisterly bond. .


 * Cool Big Sis
 * Friendly Sniper
 * Power Blonde
 * Power Blonde

Eve Brea
Disappeared after the incident at Aya's wedding at St. Thomas Cathedral. All information on her is from Aya's personal testimony, as she doesn't appear in any records in government databases. Eve is actually a clone of Aya, adopted by her and Kyle Madigan after the NMC incident, and has lived with them ever since. After a particular disturbing flashback concerning her, Aya decided to use her Overdive ability to look in the past for the cause of Eve's disappearance, and hopefully how to save her.

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 * Action Girl
 * Body Surf
 * Healing Factor: Like her "sister" Aya.
 * Shower Scene: Avoids obvious legality issues since she was in during it.
 * Healing Factor: Like her "sister" Aya.
 * Shower Scene: Avoids obvious legality issues since she was in during it.
 * Shower Scene: Avoids obvious legality issues since she was in during it.