Amnesia: The Dark Descent/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[And I Must Scream]]: His worst fear comes true in the bad endings, {{spoiler|being trapped in the darkness he fears, forever.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Hero]]/[[Anti-Villain]]}}: {{spoiler|One of the two right now. He wants to redeem himself at any cost.}}

* [[Doom Magnet]]: Literally, {{spoiler|Daniel. Everywhere he goes, The Shadow of the Orb chases him.}}

* [[Famous Last Words]]: For the bad ending. {{spoiler|[[The Scream|Ohhh!!]] [[Big No|NO!!]] Arrrgahahghh...AHH!!}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Realization]]: He immediately realizes what a monster he is and it tears him up inside. Realizing that Alexander tempted him down this road gives him the desire to murder him. However, just knowing what he did made him wish he just died right there and then. Wanting to stop Alexander even so, this led to...}}

* [[Heroic Mime]]: Subverted, Daniel's diary entries are all narrated by himself and the player occasionally hears him mumble and ramble to himself during game play. The subversion comes when {{spoiler|the player first encounters Agrippa, who seems to react to what he is saying but the player hears not a peep from Daniel.}}

** Possibly explained by the fact he might posses {{spoiler|[[Psychic Powers]], and could read Daniel's mind before he could say anything.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} In the good ending {{spoiler|He sends Agrippa through the gates to his and Alexander's world. Leaving himself and Alexander at the shadows mercy}}. {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|The Shadow has none]]}}.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: {{spoiler|Daniel after being mentored by Baron Alexander in how to deal with the Shadow of the Orb.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending|The Shadow]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|engulfs him in]] [[And I Must Scream|absolute darkness in the bad ending...Forever.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Villain Protagonist]]}}: {{spoiler|Temporarily and only in the flashbacks. Before the game starts, he has sacrificed many people to save his own skin. Many of them probably innocent, although he was never told this. It's made clear, however, that once you get to the end of the story, that he regrets what he has done.}}

* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|In the good/Revenge ending.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini|In the bad ending]] [[Downer Ending|though...]]}}

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Played mostly straight—while the Baron is ''definitely'' a [[Complete Monster]], the why of it might gain him sympathy points with the right people—as revealed in a handful of Notes, he's {{spoiler|simply trying to get back home}}.

* [[The Corrupter]]: {{spoiler|Let's face it. The only reason that Daniel became a [[Complete Monster|monster]] himself, at least until he realized what was happening, was because Alexander manipulated him.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]] {{spoiler|His motivation for all the things he's done is to get back to his family.}} Doesn't really make up for torturing innocent people.

* [[Famous Last Words]]: {{spoiler|No you fool! You killed us! you killed us BOTH!!}}

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|Alexander just wants to return to his homeworld and reunite with his beloved wife. And if the energy needed to do this can only be obtained [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|through torturing people]], then so be it.}}

* [[Have a Nice Death]]: {{spoiler|Thank you my friend. Your sacrifice will not be forgotten. You will be celebrated, forever!}}

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending|In the bad ending.]]}} {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending|You can prevent it though.]]}}

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: {{spoiler|[[Fate Worse Than Death|Gets screwed over]]}} {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death|ROYALLY]]}} {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending|in the Good/Revenge endings]]}} {{spoiler|[[Spanner in the Works|by the very man]]}} {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn|he thought to]]}} {{spoiler|[[The Dog Bites Back|use.]]}}

* [[Never My Fault]]: Yes Alexander, this is all Daniel's fault. You didn't do nothing... {{spoiler|except corrupt him and make him willing to torture and kill people. All just to get your hands on a magic orb so you can return home and to hell to everyone else. Yes, [[Sarcasm Mode|you're completely innocent.]]}}

* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|He confessed how much of a monster he was after being poisoned.}}

The famed alchemist himself, friend of Daniel. {{spoiler|Found in the castle as some sort of corpse-like body.}}

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: There are hints that the Shadow is not actively malicious, but is simply following its duty. {{spoiler|In the revenge ending, it decides that Alexander's death has "redeemed" Daniel in its eyes, and it no longer chases him.}}

== ''Justine'' characters ==

* [[No Name Given]]: Her name is not mentioned until the very end, {{spoiler|unless you count all the times Justine talks about herself.}}

* [[Tender Tears]]: The only time she displays any feeling {{spoiler|other than being a sadistic monster}} is in the [[Room Full of Crazy|winding halls with the blood messages.]] She won't stop crying till you escape the hallways.

** She crys if you saved the hostages. If you didn't save anyone she snaps [[Go Mad from the Revelation|realizing shes no better than Justine]] for sacrificing three innocents to save her own life and [[Laughing Mad|she softly giggles all the way to the exit.]]. {{spoiler|Justine doesn't want to lose her humanity. Thus goes insane if she fails her own test.}}

The main antagonist of the DLC of the same name. Trying to escape from her dungeon slowly reveals the details of Justine's life and how she set up her torture dungeon. {{spoiler|Revealed later to be the [[Player Character]] at the same time.}}

* [[Acting for Two]]: Emily Corkery voices Justine tand the [[Player Character]].