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The primary character, a best-selling novelist who is vacationing with his wife in Bright Falls while wrestling with his writer's block. She disappears abruptly, and Alan comes to in a wrecked car in the wilderness, missing a week's time, and searching for clues as to what happened to his wife.
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Alan's wife, who helps him write and manage his novels, and is vacationing with him at Bright Falls.
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: While trapped under Cauldron Lake.
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}: As revealed to Alan by Dr. Hartman. '''{{color|white|DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES}}'''▼
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Her kidnapping is what sets Alan on his journey through Bright Falls.
▲* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}: As revealed to Alan by Dr. Hartman. '''{{color|white|DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES}}'''
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Although not dead, most of her characterization comes through flashbacks.
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Two brothers who formed a heavy metal band in the '70's on their farm near Cauldron Lake, and renamed themselves as Norse gods to further their image of reborn deities. Now mentally-unstable old men who live in Dr. Hartman's clinic, but occasionally sneak off to raise hell in town or get some moonshine. {{spoiler|Have encountered and fought against the Dark Presence in the past, and were aware of both the Lady of Light and Thomas Zane, and their significance in fighting the Dark Presence.}}
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Cool Old Guy]]s
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Later on, when Alan Wake arrived at Cauldron Lake, {{spoiler|Alan wrote Thomas Zane into his novel as a guide, taking on the form of a man in a diving/space suit, who would help Alan fight the Dark Presence.}}
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* [[The Atoner]]
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Writing this {{spoiler|allowed the Presence to take over Barabara Jagger's body.}}
* [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity]]
* [[My Greatest Failure]]
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: He acts as Alan's guide and aids him, though indirectly. {{spoiler|Becomes much more direct in [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|"The Signal"]] and [[Enemy Within|"The Writer"]] DLC, which are almost completely Zane trying to guide Alan through the Dark Place and teach him to fight it's influence.}}▼
* [[Posthumous Character]]
* [[Reality Warper]]
* [[Ret-Gone]]: {{spoiler|Did this to himself}}.
▲* [[The Obi-Wan]]: He acts as Alan's guide and aids him, though indirectly. {{spoiler|Becomes much more direct in [[Journey to the Center of the Mind|"The Signal"]] and [[Enemy Within|"The Writer"]] DLC, which are almost completely Zane trying to guide Alan through the Dark Place and teach him to fight it's influence.}}
== Pat Maine ==
A retired cop who is now the host of a late night radio program. Alan first meets him on the boat into town where he asks him to [[Foreshadowing|stop by later for an interview.]] {{spoiler|In chapter 3 Alan does stop by the station, but he's not there for an interview...}}
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: It may not be obvious the first time you meet him, but he is definately more awesome then he first appears.
== Carl Stucky ==
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