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=== Ghost People ===

* [[Ascended Meme]]: With the Wild Wasteland trait, Dog says "'''NOM NOM NOM!!!'''" the first time he eats one of the Ghost People.

* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Roughly equal to Legate Lanius in terms of health. If all 4 DLCs are installed, and the player is level 40 to 50, he has nearly as many hit points as a Super Mutant Behemoth.

* [[The Dragon]]: To Elijah, sort of.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Dog eventually attempts suicide just so he doesn't have to hear God hectoring him anymore. Unfortunately, his suicide method involves blowing up the entire casino.}}

* [[Pet the Dog]]: With a high enough speech skill, you can get God to admit to caring for Dog. He also states that he tries to act as a conscience for Dog, trying to make him avoid hurting others.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: He's actually the one who captures the Courier and Elijah's other previous victims.

* [[Split Personality]]: They're essentially the Id and Superego of a functioning personality. Dog is a hulking, violent brute, and as smart as a vegetable. God, his alter ego, is rational and intelligent, but also extremely cold and utilitarian. {{spoiler|Eventually, [[Split Personality Merge|they can either be combined]] or [[Split Personality Takeover|one can destroy the other]].}}

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: In a way, Dog. God comments that Dog, while he is very dangerous and unstable, has a better grasp on their body and is therefore better in combat.

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Bigger Bad]]: Essentially this for Dead Money.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: According to a portrait, he looked much like Sammy Davis Jr. before becoming a ghoul.

* [[Crazy Survivalist]]: He pretty much became one of these by necessity, since the Sierra Madre and surrounding environs are even deadlier than the Wasteland in general. He can handle the toxic air in small quantities, has hidden item stashes all over the region, and can even scrape some poison off a wall and make it into an [[Gargle Blaster|extremely foul (but potent) cocktail.]]

* [[Crutch Character]]: Having Dean as your companion is not only necessary if you want to explore the Villa to any significant degree, but he's also easily the most useful companion. He's the only one with a limitless-ammo gun (you can give the others guns, but they also need ammo), his protection from the Cloud far outstrips the abilities of your other companions, and he's more than tough enough to handle himself in combat.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: He's the same Dean Domino on the poster on the loading screens in the original game.

* {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]]}}: {{spoiler|A possibility when you encounter him at the theater, if you tried to one-up him or threatened/insulted him in dialogue. However if he decides not to betray you, he'll try to do what he can to help you, even shutting down a few speakers when you face Elijah.}}

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: {{spoiler|Why did Dean sabotage the construction of Sinclair's casino, blackmail a woman into pretending to love him, and plan to rob him of everything he owns? Because Sinclair was ''happier'' than him!}}

* [[Guttural Growler]]: Subverted. It seems his voice survived ghoulification. His career as a singer possibly helped with this.

* [[Jerkass]]: And arguably {{spoiler|breaks through to [[Complete Monster]] territory when he [[Motive Rant|rants]] about how he planned everything just because Sinclair seemed happier than him. Oh, and he's the one who rigged Christine's autodoc to tear out her vocal chords. Even if you save him, his ending strongly suggests he has no remorse for what he's done.}}

** [[Heel Realization]]: He goes through a momentary one in the ending where he survives, when he finds out what happened to Sinclair and Keyes. A very momentary one, but seemingly enough for him to let go of the Sierra Madre.

* [[Evil Mentor]]: To Veronica, before the battle of Helios.

* [[Final Boss]]: Played with, see:

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Before he became elder he was just a Scribe, the most mild and least aggressive caste in the Brotherhood.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: As [[Complete Monster|cruel]] as he is, he's a genius. You know that one of a kind [[Infinity+1 Sword|Holorifle]] that can disintegrate Deathclaws with a single sneak critical? He built it. And he Jury-Rigged a [[BFG|semi automatic Tesla Cannon]], which is one of the most powerful weapons in the game.

* [[Puzzle Boss]]: Rather than destroy his turrets outright, you can either get Christine to shut a few of them down, hack the systems and turn the turrets against him, or smash the turret generator, rendering all but two useless. Of course, it is possible to just destroy them before he ever arrives, since they shoot at you for opening the vault.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: {{spoiler|For all his faults, he ''does'' seem to genuinely care about Veronica, who sees him as a father figure. He also [[Kick the Dog|had her separated from Christine due to his own homophobia]]. You can even find a message on his terminal intended as a goodbye note to her and as a gift (teaching her a new fighting technique).}}

* [[The Chessmaster]]

* [[The Sociopath]]

** He also has a similar breakdown if you just destroy all his turrets, he'll completely lose it and come charging out of his forcefield with a gauss rifle.

* [[Visionary Villain]]: He plans to use the invincible hologram enemies found in the DLC to take over the Mojave.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: A possible ending, in which Elijah and the Courier (if he/she has a bad rep with the NCR) uses the Cloud and the holograms to chase out the NCR, the Legion, and just about everyone else from the Mojave.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: After breaking into the Sierra Madre, he encourages you to kill Dog, Dean, and Christine. And after you penetrate the Vault, he'll try to pull this on you. {{spoiler|Unless you can prove [[We Can Rule Together|otherwise]].}}

The owner of Sierra Madre. He was introduced to Vera Keyes by Dean Domino and [[Love At First Sight|fell in love with her at first sight]], building the Sierra Madre as a shrine to her. He used his immense wealth to commission new technologies, such as Holograms and Dispensers, to ensure that Sierra Madre would survive the apocalypse. {{spoiler|He later realised that Dean and Vera had been conning him, and consumed with vengeance he transformed the Sierra Madre from a shelter into a deathtrap. However, when Vera confessed her role to him and revealed that she was being blackmailed by Dean, he realised that he truly ''did'' love her and rushed to disarm the Sierra Madre's traps. Unfortunately, he was too late to act before the bombs fell}}.

** It leads to some [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you realise that despite being a very good engineer, Sinclair seemed to ignore that {{spoiler|the Villa's construction was a sham}}.

* [[Empty Shell]]: Apparently, he became this after discovering {{spoiler|Vera's duplicity}}. At least according to people around him.