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The Characters from the [[First Encounter Assault Recon]] games and the tropes they exemplify. Playable Characters and Major Antagonists will also have their names properly listed under their respective factions (USM, Armacham, or Independent).
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* [[Badass]]: The Replica are all [[Heavily Armored Mook|Heavily Armed]] [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]]; he kills five-hundred of them ''in a single day''. Of course, the rampage he goes on in ''F.E.A.R. 3'' makes this look like an opening act by comparison.
* [[Badass Beard]]: As of ''F.E.A.R. 3'', being a [[Rogue Agent]] and all.
* [[Bullet Time]]: Everything appears to go this way when the Point Man triggers his Reflex/Slo-Mo powers, though in reality its the fact that he is moving [[Super Speed|superhumanly fast]]. This appears to be a particular manifestation of his psychic abilities.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: It's not precisely clear which brother fills which role, but the dynamic between him and {{spoiler|Fettel}} definitely fits this. In the intro to the third game, the moment he realizes {{spoiler|Fettel is in front of him}}, he kills the body he's controlling.
* [[Death Glare]]: An epic one.
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* [[Super Speed]]: When his slo-mo powers are triggered, he moves with blurring speed from the perspective of ordinary humans.
* [[The Unfavorite]]: While growing up, {{spoiler|he was consistently referred to as the "weaker" brother by all of the Armacham researchers, and told he wasn't special like Fettel.}}
* [[When She Smiles|When He Smiles]]: In his ending for ''F.E.A.R. 3''. {{spoiler|His stoic demeanor actually cracks a little when he holds his baby sibling.}}
=== '''The Sergeant''' ===
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The [[Player Character]] of ''Project Origin'', Becket is a highly gifted soldier with latent psychic abilities, which are brought to the forefront by Project Harbinger. He is a member of a special delta unit known as "Dark Signal," which {{spoiler|consists exclusively of Harbinger subjects, who are all potential Replica commanders.}}
* [[Badass Normal]]: At the beginning of the game, he has no superhuman abilities beyond latent psychic abilities that manifest in hallucinations of Alma. An Armacham evaluation indicate sthat he has exceptional physical ability but [[Book Dumb|lackluster academics]].
** [[Badass Abnormal]]: Rapidly becomes one after some improvised surgery that {{spoiler|directly links him to Alma}}.
* [[Bullet Time]]: Justified after he gets the Harbinger Treatment by Dr. York, requested by Genevieve Aristide.
* [[Cool Shades]]: Which [[Diegetic Interface|justify the heads-up display]].
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One of the primary characters in the series, around whom nearly everything revolves, Alma is an extremely powerful psychic (as in [[Reality Warper|reality bending]] and [[Person of Mass Destruction|world-ending]] power) who was connected to an Armacham project known as "Origin" to create psychic supersoldiers. She is also {{spoiler|the daughter of Harlan Wade, head of the project}}, and {{spoiler|mother of the Point Man and Fettel}}. She was {{spoiler|sealed inside a psychically shielded vault at the age of eight and forced into a coma to keep her immense power under control}}, and later was {{spoiler|artificially impregnated with two sons.}} After an incident known as a "Synchronicity Event" wherein she {{spoiler|linked her mind with Paxton Fettel's and killed a number of guards}} she was {{spoiler|killed by shutting off her life support, but her corpse was kept in the shielded vault because releasing it would be....''bad.''}} However, Alma's hatred, psychic abilities, and desire to be {{spoiler|reunited with her children allowed her spirit to endure and survive despite physical death.}}
The first game's plot involves Alma engaging another Synchronicity Event with {{spoiler|Fettel}} and her subsequent attempts to both escape and get her revenge. In the second game, she is loose and {{spoiler|covets Michael Beckett, desiring to make a child with him.}} In the third game, {{spoiler|she is pregnant with said child, and reaching Alma and recovering the Third Prototype is the primary plot.}}
* [[Anti-Villain]]
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* [[Big Bad]]:Was thought be for the entire series but is
** is actually a [[Bigger Bad]]
* [[Expy]]: She's essentially a long-lost sister of [[The Ring|Samara]], as mentioned above, though she manages to be an original character in her own right.
* [[Fan Disservice]]/
** [[Ms/Fanservice]]
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*** This meaning is mostly lost for hungarian players, as 'Alma' means apple in hungarian.
** It can also mean "gentle" in Latin, making it a case of [[Fluffy the Terrible]].
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: Quite adapted at that too, she once tossed a ''truck'' onto a hapless character with ease.
* [[Mind Rape]]
* [[Mook Maker]]: In-story example. Her loose psychic energy and convoluted mind create creatures hell-bent on destruction and mayhem. They initially only appear during paranormal occurrances, but after her father released her, they simply appear. Interestingly, it's not clear if she directly controls the actions of her apparitions.
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** "She's a woman now, and she doesn't even realise it."
* [[Reality Warper]]: Is psychic.
* [[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.''
* [[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}}).
** More appropriately, [[Stalker with a Test Tube]].
* [[Stringy
* [[Tragic Monster]]: Obvious, given her backstory.
* [[The Unfettered]]: Although Alma's more concerned with short-term planning (kill captors, covet Beckett, {{spoiler|have child with Beckett}}), she takes what she wants, [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|whether people want her to or not.]]
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Which is the whole reason behind the plot of the entire series.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Having been driven insane by your own psychic powers as a child, experimented on and locked up since you were eight years old, medicated into a coma and locked away in a shield vault for most of your life, forcibly impregnated and then having both of your children taken away, then killed once the project was terminated, all by your own father can turn someone into this.
* [[Yandere (disambiguation)]]: ''Dear Lord.''
=== '''Paxton Fettel''' ===
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* [[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.}}
* [[Not So Different]]: Fettel ultimately becomes much like Harlan Wade, whom he utterly despises.
* [[Oedipus Complex]]: Hates his father {{spoiler|Harlan Wade}}, and {{spoiler|his ending in F.E.A.R. 3 implies that he'd have fathered Alma's child if Beckett hadn't already.}}
* [[Over the Shoulder Murder Shot]] - with the cannibal imagery.
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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.
* [[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.
* [[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."
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* [[Evil Plan]]: {{spoiler|The plot to get Becket to draw Alma into the Telesthetic Amplifier to trap them both.}}
* [[The Faceless]]: Though she appears in person in ''F.E.A.R. 2'', she was only heard through phone messages in the first game.
* [[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.]]
* [[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.
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=== '''Lieutenant Steve Chen''' ===
[[The Lancer|The Second F.E.A.R. Team's lancer]], if anything. He seems to be the member with an expertise in handling just about any problem the Second Team gets across, be it combat, forensics or wiretapping.
According to him, he's a father of two children and has taken them along with him on a tour around Fairport's Old Underground Metro Area in the summer before the events of ''F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate''. It seems that being enlisted in F.E.A.R. wasn't quite the job he had in mind, judging from how he often complains about being underpaid for all the menial tasks he has been given, which sometimes puts him in [[Snark to Snark Combat]] with the F.E.A.R. Coordinator, Rowdy Betters. And don't get him started on [[Noodle Incident|the Amarillo incident]]: shooting the capture target was apparently an accident.
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* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Her armor actually covers about as much area as the kit the rest of dark Signal wears, but her shirt underneath is just a bit too short.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Adapts to the shift from "special operations extraction" to "supernatural end-of-the-world horror" with remarkable speed. At the end of the game, she even openly worries that Alma will use the "turns your worst fears against you" trick.
* [[Good
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: She shares a voice actress with [[Left 4 Dead|Zoey]]...hell, she even looks like Zoey!
* [[The Ladette]]
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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.
* [[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 ==
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