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* [[One-Man Army]]
* [[One-Man Army]]
{{quote| Will someone just fucking shoot him already?}}
{{quote| Will someone just fucking shoot him already?}}
* {{spoiler|[[Rape As Drama]]}}: The bad thing is... he's on {{spoiler|the receiving end by ''Alma''.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama]]}}: The bad thing is... he's on {{spoiler|the receiving end by ''Alma''.}}
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: A combination of Alma's [[Mind Rape]] powers, {{spoiler|her actually raping him}}, and being held captive by Armacham for nine months while being continuously tested and experimented on has driven him gradually insane.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: A combination of Alma's [[Mind Rape]] powers, {{spoiler|her actually raping him}}, and being held captive by Armacham for nine months while being continuously tested and experimented on has driven him gradually insane.
** Which also leads to his [[This Is Sparta|next screaming line]] after one of the third game's interval ending cutscenes...
** Which also leads to his [[This Is Sparta|next screaming line]] after one of the third game's interval ending cutscenes...
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** ''F.E.A.R 3'' provides evidence that she doesn't, in the form of The Creep: The psychic remnant of {{spoiler|her father, Harlan Wade. Any time it appears, Alma is paralyzed with fear, reverting to her child form if she was in adult form.}}
** ''F.E.A.R 3'' provides evidence that she doesn't, in the form of The Creep: The psychic remnant of {{spoiler|her father, Harlan Wade. Any time it appears, Alma is paralyzed with fear, reverting to her child form if she was in adult form.}}
* [[The Ophelia]]: Alma appears to have many Ophelia-esque aspects, particularly in Project Origin. She is shown singing in several hallucinations, and in the prequel videos she dances around a doctor who she's been gleefully mindraping. Water shows up often in her hallucinations, which makes sense, as, like Ophelia, she drowned to death (in her case, in amniotic fluid). And her hair in her "child" form tends to be wild and frazzled.
* [[The Ophelia]]: Alma appears to have many Ophelia-esque aspects, particularly in Project Origin. She is shown singing in several hallucinations, and in the prequel videos she dances around a doctor who she's been gleefully mindraping. Water shows up often in her hallucinations, which makes sense, as, like Ophelia, she drowned to death (in her case, in amniotic fluid). And her hair in her "child" form tends to be wild and frazzled.
* [[Orcus On His Throne]]: In ''F.E.A.R. 3'', Alma is not the active nemesis she was in the first two games, though for good reason, considering she is {{spoiler|pregnant}}. That said, her effects on the environment are still intensively felt, from mad cultists to reality-warping effects to creating entities like the Creep, even if she is not actively fighting the players.
* [[Orcus on His Throne]]: In ''F.E.A.R. 3'', Alma is not the active nemesis she was in the first two games, though for good reason, considering she is {{spoiler|pregnant}}. That said, her effects on the environment are still intensively felt, from mad cultists to reality-warping effects to creating entities like the Creep, even if she is not actively fighting the players.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Aside from the usual trait of teleporation and ignoring rules of physics, she is perfectly capable of [[Mind Rape|mind-raping people into obedience]], stripping them down to skeletons in seconds, creating numerous [[People Puppets|psychic abominations]] and paranormal entities with her mind, {{spoiler|raping one of the Protagonist AND ends up bearing his child.}}
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Aside from the usual trait of teleporation and ignoring rules of physics, she is perfectly capable of [[Mind Rape|mind-raping people into obedience]], stripping them down to skeletons in seconds, creating numerous [[People Puppets|psychic abominations]] and paranormal entities with her mind, {{spoiler|raping one of the Protagonist AND ends up bearing his child.}}
* [[Personal Space Invader]]: Towards Beckett in the second game. There's a reason for this.
* [[Personal Space Invader]]: Towards Beckett in the second game. There's a reason for this.
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* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Child Alma's eyes are dull red in the second game.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Child Alma's eyes are dull red in the second game.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: An entire city (and its outlying suburbs) annihilated, most of its inhabitants vaporised and those who survived turned into slaves to her mind as a result. ''And she still isn't satisfied.''
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: An entire city (and its outlying suburbs) annihilated, most of its inhabitants vaporised and those who survived turned into slaves to her mind as a result. ''And she still isn't satisfied.''
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: Sealed in a telesthetic suppression field and left for dead in an abandoned underground facility for decades. Granted that it didn't really stop her, but once she was released, ho boy the real apocalypse starts now...
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Sealed in a telesthetic suppression field and left for dead in an abandoned underground facility for decades. Granted that it didn't really stop her, but once she was released, ho boy the real apocalypse starts now...
* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: (In Project Origin towards {{spoiler|Becket}}).
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: (In Project Origin towards {{spoiler|Becket}}).
** More appropriately, [[Stalker With a Test Tube]].
** More appropriately, [[Stalker with a Test Tube]].
* [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]]
* [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]]
* [[Tragic Monster]]: Obvious, given her backstory.
* [[Tragic Monster]]: Obvious, given her backstory.
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* [[Full-Name Basis]]: His first and surname are both pretty distinctive on their own, but you'll see him referred to in full as "Paxton Fettel" as often as not. Likely because it just rolls off the tongue.
* [[Full-Name Basis]]: His first and surname are both pretty distinctive on their own, but you'll see him referred to in full as "Paxton Fettel" as often as not. Likely because it just rolls off the tongue.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: When possessing bodies.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: When possessing bodies.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian|I'm A Humanitarian]] -- Subverted. Less about nutrition than it is about consuming memories.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]] -- Subverted. Less about nutrition than it is about consuming memories.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: When he and the Point Man reach Beckett, {{spoiler|Fettel possesses Beckett, knowing that this ''will'' kill him, simply because invading his body and taking the memories by force is faster than trying to chat him up.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: When he and the Point Man reach Beckett, {{spoiler|Fettel possesses Beckett, knowing that this ''will'' kill him, simply because invading his body and taking the memories by force is faster than trying to chat him up.}}
* [[Not So Different]]: Fettel ultimately becomes much like Harlan Wade, whom he utterly despises.
* [[Not So Different]]: Fettel ultimately becomes much like Harlan Wade, whom he utterly despises.
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Hoo boy. And it doesn't just extend to {{spoiler|Alma}}, either. Both {{spoiler|Fettel and the Point Man}} got a lot of it too when they were children. One of the {{spoiler|Point Man}}'s flashbacks depicts Harlan putting him in a training ring as an eleven-year old against a fully-grown Armacham soldier, and when he inevitably lost, Harlan flies into a rage and ''beats him with a metal bucket'' so hard that he gets thrown into a concrete pillar.
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Hoo boy. And it doesn't just extend to {{spoiler|Alma}}, either. Both {{spoiler|Fettel and the Point Man}} got a lot of it too when they were children. One of the {{spoiler|Point Man}}'s flashbacks depicts Harlan putting him in a training ring as an eleven-year old against a fully-grown Armacham soldier, and when he inevitably lost, Harlan flies into a rage and ''beats him with a metal bucket'' so hard that he gets thrown into a concrete pillar.
* [[The Atoner]]: Harlan is the ringleader of a group that represents about half of the original Project Origin staff, whom believe that any attempt to reopen the Vault and restart Project Origin would be a ''very bad idea.'' [[Cassandra Truth|Not that Genevieve Aristede bothered to listen.]] {{spoiler|In the end, Wade decides to set Alma free, to "save" her from the destruction of the Origin facility. Whatever his intentions, the results are this: He is instantly [[Stripped to The Bone]] by Alma, and in death has set loose what [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|may be the]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|harbinger of the apocalypse.]]}}
* [[The Atoner]]: Harlan is the ringleader of a group that represents about half of the original Project Origin staff, whom believe that any attempt to reopen the Vault and restart Project Origin would be a ''very bad idea.'' [[Cassandra Truth|Not that Genevieve Aristede bothered to listen.]] {{spoiler|In the end, Wade decides to set Alma free, to "save" her from the destruction of the Origin facility. Whatever his intentions, the results are this: He is instantly [[Stripped to the Bone]] by Alma, and in death has set loose what [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|may be the]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|harbinger of the apocalypse.]]}}
** In ''Project Origin'', one of Harlan's flashbacks involves him standing next to {{spoiler|his daughter}}, with his voice speaking in the background, saying {{spoiler|"You're asking me to seal ''my daughter'' away?"}} From his tone, it sounds like he is quite horrified at the prospect. His later appearances, particularly the brothers' flashbacks to how he treated them during the years when Project Origin was active, show that he had hardened quite a bit.
** In ''Project Origin'', one of Harlan's flashbacks involves him standing next to {{spoiler|his daughter}}, with his voice speaking in the background, saying {{spoiler|"You're asking me to seal ''my daughter'' away?"}} From his tone, it sounds like he is quite horrified at the prospect. His later appearances, particularly the brothers' flashbacks to how he treated them during the years when Project Origin was active, show that he had hardened quite a bit.
* [[Big Bad]]: He ''is'' a monster far worse than Alma. Hell, he made her that way.
* [[Big Bad]]: He ''is'' a monster far worse than Alma. Hell, he made her that way.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Harlan's phone messages are never friendly. In what may be the key summation of the series, he describes what will occur as the "assfuck of the century."
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Harlan's phone messages are never friendly. In what may be the key summation of the series, he describes what will occur as the "assfuck of the century."
** Particularly notable in the ones addressed to Genevieve.
** Particularly notable in the ones addressed to Genevieve.
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]
{{quote| '''Harlan Wade:''' "[[Genre Savvy|It is in the nature of man to make monsters. And it is the nature of monsters, to destroy their makers.]]"}}
{{quote| '''Harlan Wade:''' "[[Genre Savvy|It is in the nature of man to make monsters. And it is the nature of monsters, to destroy their makers.]]"}}
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Harlan {{spoiler|returns in ''F.E.A.R. 3'' as a powerful apparition called The Creep, the psychic embodiment of Alma's fear and hatred of him.}}
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Harlan {{spoiler|returns in ''F.E.A.R. 3'' as a powerful apparition called The Creep, the psychic embodiment of Alma's fear and hatred of him.}}
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* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Either she doesn't understand Alma or doesn't care, but she seems to have no grasp of the tragedy at hand, thinking only of ways to "reclaim" Alma and "re-purpose" her for her own ends.
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Either she doesn't understand Alma or doesn't care, but she seems to have no grasp of the tragedy at hand, thinking only of ways to "reclaim" Alma and "re-purpose" her for her own ends.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Practically her [[Catch Phrase]]. [[Moral Event Horizon|We ain't buying it.]]
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Practically her [[Catch Phrase]]. [[Moral Event Horizon|We ain't buying it.]]
* [[Only in It For The Money]]: Reading her e-mails and notes indicates that her chief concern appears to be keeping her job and recouping financial losses.
* [[Only in It For the Money]]: Reading her e-mails and notes indicates that her chief concern appears to be keeping her job and recouping financial losses.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: You just wanna strangle her.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: You just wanna strangle her.


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=== '''Commissioner Rodney "Rowdy" Betters''' ===
=== '''Commissioner Rodney "Rowdy" Betters''' ===
* [[Linked-List Clue Methodology]]: Betters pieces together the truth behind Project Origin as you progress. If you don't guess before he does, he often provides [[The Reveal]] if not [[As You Know]].
* [[Linked-List Clue Methodology]]: Betters pieces together the truth behind Project Origin as you progress. If you don't guess before he does, he often provides [[The Reveal]] if not [[As You Know]].
* [[Voice With an Internet Connection]]: F.E.A.R's field coordinator. He appears in person at the very beginning of the game, drives you to Auburn and is not seen in person hence.
* [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]: F.E.A.R's field coordinator. He appears in person at the very beginning of the game, drives you to Auburn and is not seen in person hence.


== '''First F.E.A.R. Team''' ==
== '''First F.E.A.R. Team''' ==
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* [[Eye Scream]] -- You should see what his face looks like when he's dead. Empty sockets are where his eyes used to be.
* [[Eye Scream]] -- You should see what his face looks like when he's dead. Empty sockets are where his eyes used to be.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: Despite his ghostly subsequent apperances, Jankowski's actual corpse is never seen. [[Word of God]] is you were originally meant to find it, but that it was decided it was [[Nothing Is Scarier|scarier this way.]] Oddly, F.E.A.R. command continues to pick up his signal, though it appears and disappears at random in wildly varying locations.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: Despite his ghostly subsequent apperances, Jankowski's actual corpse is never seen. [[Word of God]] is you were originally meant to find it, but that it was decided it was [[Nothing Is Scarier|scarier this way.]] Oddly, F.E.A.R. command continues to pick up his signal, though it appears and disappears at random in wildly varying locations.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?|What Happened To The Lieutenant]]? -- His fate is to eventually be killed in action and his eyes gouged out, but the killer, whether it be Alma, Paxton Fettel or any of their Replica goons is left unanswered.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?|What Happened To The Lieutenant]]? -- His fate is to eventually be killed in action and his eyes gouged out, but the killer, whether it be Alma, Paxton Fettel or any of their Replica goons is left unanswered.


=== '''Technical Officer Jin Sun Kwon''' ===
=== '''Technical Officer Jin Sun Kwon''' ===
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* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Late in ''F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point'', though the events of the first game's expansions were [[Retcon|Retconned]] into [[Canon Dis Continuity|discontinuity. She appears in ''F.3.A.R.'']]
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Late in ''F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point'', though the events of the first game's expansions were [[Retcon|Retconned]] into [[Canon Dis Continuity|discontinuity. She appears in ''F.3.A.R.'']]
* [[The Medic]]: Though she spends some time playing medic for others, including the Point Man after the warehouse explosion, he doesn't really need her help. He has [[Heal Thyself|a stack of medkits anyway.]]
* [[The Medic]]: Though she spends some time playing medic for others, including the Point Man after the warehouse explosion, he doesn't really need her help. He has [[Heal Thyself|a stack of medkits anyway.]]
* [[Voice With an Internet Connection]]: Apart from Rowdy Betters, Jin is the biggest user of the radio.
* [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]: Apart from Rowdy Betters, Jin is the biggest user of the radio.


== '''Second F.E.A.R. Team''' ==
== '''Second F.E.A.R. Team''' ==
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* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Sans the bald part.
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Sans the bald part.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted!]] {{spoiler|Until ''Extraction Point.''}} [[Canon Dis Continuity|Which isn't canon anyway.]]
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted!]] {{spoiler|Until ''Extraction Point.''}} [[Canon Dis Continuity|Which isn't canon anyway.]]
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Holiday is brutally slain by Alma's apparitions early in ''Extraction Point''. His final words implore the Point Man to "Find Jin!" [[What Happened to The Mouse?|In the Monolith Timeline, he has not been seen since F.E.A.R.'s ending.]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Holiday is brutally slain by Alma's apparitions early in ''Extraction Point''. His final words implore the Point Man to "Find Jin!" [[What Happened to the Mouse?|In the Monolith Timeline, he has not been seen since F.E.A.R.'s ending.]]}}
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Holiday uses demolition charges to clear the way, and also defuses the bomb strapped to Aldus Bishop.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Holiday uses demolition charges to clear the way, and also defuses the bomb strapped to Aldus Bishop.


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Morales is the APC driver for the Dark Signal Team... taking the crew where they need to go in case they need to link up.
Morales is the APC driver for the Dark Signal Team... taking the crew where they need to go in case they need to link up.


* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: The last time Becket sees him alive is before he enters the {{spoiler|Telesthetic Chamber in ''Climax.''}} Sure, he's {{spoiler|guarding the APC when you last see him, but considering Aristide showed up...}}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The last time Becket sees him alive is before he enters the {{spoiler|Telesthetic Chamber in ''Climax.''}} Sure, he's {{spoiler|guarding the APC when you last see him, but considering Aristide showed up...}}


== Armacham Technology Corporation ==
== Armacham Technology Corporation ==
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* [[Mega Corp]]
* [[Mega Corp]]
* [[NGO Superpower]]: They have enough manpower and influence to effectively own significant sections of an unspecified Latin American country.
* [[NGO Superpower]]: They have enough manpower and influence to effectively own significant sections of an unspecified Latin American country.
* [[Playing With Syringes]]: Everything relating to their psychic warfare division.
* [[Playing with Syringes]]: Everything relating to their psychic warfare division.
* [[School for Scheming]]: Wade Elementary
* [[School for Scheming]]: Wade Elementary
* [[Sigil Spam]]: ATC puts their logo on everything, even the uniforms of their black ops troops.
* [[Sigil Spam]]: ATC puts their logo on everything, even the uniforms of their black ops troops.
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: Sort of. In the first two games, they were actively fighting against the Replica, but by the third game the Replica have been brought back under control and fight alongside the normal human ATC troops.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Sort of. In the first two games, they were actively fighting against the Replica, but by the third game the Replica have been brought back under control and fight alongside the normal human ATC troops.
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Many ATC troops have visible faces, but the more elite soldiers wear facemasks and goggles, and all of the ATC troops in the third game wear face-concealing balaclavas.
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Many ATC troops have visible faces, but the more elite soldiers wear facemasks and goggles, and all of the ATC troops in the third game wear face-concealing balaclavas.
* [[Mecha Mooks]]: The mech support units that show up in ''F.3.A.R.''
* [[Mecha-Mooks]]: The mech support units that show up in ''F.3.A.R.''
* [[Mook Maker]]: Phase Casters and Phase Commanders
* [[Mook Maker]]: Phase Casters and Phase Commanders
* [[Private Military Contractors]]
* [[Private Military Contractors]]
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