Alan Wake/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Has a couple of these moments.

* [[Determinator]]: He is ''going'' to find his wife. ''Get out of his way.''

* [[Happily Married]]: He and Alice do fight occasionally, but Alan wouldn't keep looking for her with such determination if they didn't have a good marriage.

* [[Help Your Self in The Future]]: Just about every useful item in the game was {{spoiler|written into the plot by Alan himself}}. Lampshaded in his internal monologues when noting that flash grenades aren't exactly standard electrician equipment.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Twofold in ''American Nightmare''. He's much better at working with the plans he's written into being as well as his own [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|instincts]]. However, he's also altered the genre of the story from Surreal Horror to a surreal form of Action, allowing himself access to bigger guns.

* [[Took a Level In Kindness]]: In ''American Nightmare'', Alan is far more patient with the other survivors than he was during his time in Bright Falls. He notes that, given the sheer insanity of the challenges he faced in the original game and beyond, there's next to nothing that could really get his blood pressure up anymore.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Light and noise to combat the darkness, in the form of a flashlight and guns.

* [[Tender Tears]]: When saying goodbye to {{spoiler|Alan as he leaves the Well-Lit Room.}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: After arming himself in the general store and taking out a huge Taken with a flare gun.

** The Alan Wake files reveals that {{spoiler|he's out and about, and was suing the writer of said file for awhile until he was persuaded to stop.}}

** ''American Nightmare'' reveals that he's now a manager in the music industry, and the Old Gods of Asgard are one of his clients. He also keeps in touch with Sheriff Breaker, and co-handles Alan's works with Alice.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: In contrast to Agent Nightingale, is ready and willing to listen to Alan.

* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: The fact that it has unlimited shells probably helps.

** In the Alan Wake Files, set after the game, {{spoiler|she's talked to the author on a few things, but doesn't talk about what happened during the game or why there's a lot of damage and missing people in Bright Falls.}}

** ''American Nightmare'' implies she's still sheriff, and states that she and Barry still keep in touch.

* [[Reality Warper]]

* [[Ret Gone]]: {{spoiler|Did this to himself}}.

=== Pat Maine ===

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Big Bad]]: Of ''Alan Wake's American Nightmare''.

* [[Complete Monster]]

* {{spoiler|[[Cutscene Boss]]}}:{{spoiler|Once Alan loaded Alice's film into the projecter he really didn't have a chance...}}

* [[Dressed to Kill]]

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Wake.

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]

* [[The Hedonist]]

* [[Knife Nut]]: He doesn't believe that he can truly "connect" with people by using bullets.

* [[Large Ham]]: You wouldn't think it, given he shares a voice/mo-cap actor with the rather down-to-earth Alan Wake. However, it's clear he enjoyed himself as Mr. Scratch. A lot.

* [[Rage Against the Author]]: Promotional material depicts him killing Sam Lake in one video, and enslaving him in another after going on a killing spree throughout Remedy's offices.

* [[Slasher Smile]]

A female scientist you meet in ''American Nightmare'' who works for Redtooth Observatory. {{spoiler|She eventually helps you to decode a mysterious signal that holds the key to defeating Mr. Scratch.}}

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Big time...

* [[Little Black Dress]]: Wears one under her white lab coat. Alan asks her if she always wears it to work, and she explains it as the result of being called away from a party she was attending.