Heavy Rain/Characters

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Characters from Heavy Rain include:

Player Characters

Ethan Mars

"Everything I did, I did for love."

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Madison Paige

"There has to be another way."

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Alone with the Psycho: In chronological order; she sneaks into Leland White's house only to end up trapped in the same building as a serial killer when White arrives home early; she pays a visit to Dr Baker, running the risk of being drugged and dissected; finally, she decides to investigate the Origami Killer's lair, only to be held at gunpoint by the man himself.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Kind, compassionate, and more than willing to crush Paco's balls if he doesn't start talking.
  • Biker Babe
  • The Combat Pragmatist: Most notably in her brawl with Dr Baker, in which she ends up fighting him with his own power tools.
  • Florence Nightingale Effect: On just about every occasion she meets Ethan, he's been seriously injured and she has to bandage his wounds; this escalates into a desire to help him through the Origami Killer's trials and get the police off his back, to the point that she's willing to endanger her life if it means uncovering the clues, and finally ends in full-fledged romance. This can end in marriage if the player allows Ethan to forgive her for trying to write a story about him.
  • Going for the Big Scoop: When not taking big risks for Ethan, Madison can be found taking big risks for her career; Taxidermist, anyone?
  • Hot Scoop
  • The Insomniac: The twist is that her insomnia fails if she's sleeping in a motel.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Marida Kruz is investigating into the Origami killer.
  • Intrepid Reporter
  • Ms. Fanservice: Her Motion Capture actress is a supermodel, and Madison is introduced in a scene which basically consists of her running around in her apartment while wearing only a tank top and panties.
    • And the best way to transition to the QTE event in her apartment is by taking a shower. A very long shower.
      • A shower that, in fact, lasts as long as the player wants it to, since turning off the water is a player action.
        • Nope, it's on a timer, the player cannot make Madison spend as much time in the shower as he/she wants. She will turn the knob herself after a very short time. However they do have the ability to spend as much time as they want dressing her, and can choose to 'fail' the quicktime event that involves her.... drying herself. Naturally; editing leaves her breasts exposed.
  • Rape as Backstory: Never explicitly stated, but there are a couple of hints. During her nightmare, one of her attackers picks her up and throws her onto her bed, (which makes no sense in the context since he just kills her if the QTE is failed,) and her thoughts about the sleazy hotel receptionist show genuine terror at the thought that he might have a key to her room. Having said that, the times during the game when she is in extremely sexually vulnerable situations (which you'd think might trigger flashbacks or something if she had been raped,) don't cause any more terror or disgust than would be expected, so YMMV on this.
  • Sanity Slippage: In the ending "Square One", in which her insomnia reaches critical levels and her nightmares turn into full-fledged halucinations.
  • Show Some Leg: As she admits herself, she'll do anything to get the information she needs...
  • Took a Level in Badass

Norman Jayden

"I'm not sure that's entirely legal."

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: If he dies during the investigation, this can happen if you get the "Uploaded" ending.
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Bittersweet Ending: The endings "Case Closed" and "Resignation".
  • Blue Oni: To Blake's red.
  • Brain Uploading: Implied during the "Uploaded" ending, which occurs if Jayden dies over the course of the investigation- but, ironically, not if he dies of an ARI overdose.
  • By-The-Book Cop: And he's a better man for it: he genuinely does good police work by sticking to the rules, while his unhinged partner Blake apparently makes a hobby of wiping his ass with a suspect's Miranda Rights.
  • Butt Monkey/The Chew Toy: Poor guy is already a drug addict and gets more bullying and disrespect from the police force than he deserves, and he always ends up in some seriously aggravating to painful situations. He even lampshades it himself at one point; reading his thoughts after he goes to interrogate Paco has him observe that he spent most of the investigation getting the shit kicked out of him. To cap it all, the only ending where his situation makes a definite improvement is the one where he fails to solve the case and resigns.
  • The Combat Pragmatist: As Jayden isn't exactly the most imposing member of the cast, he has to resort to a lot of dirty tricks to survive in hand-to-hand combat, especially in his second fight with Mad Jack.
  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Implied.
  • Driven to Suicide: He will die of an overdose of Triptocaine if Shaun dies.
  • Drugs Are Bad: Subverted; he uses Triptocaine to prevent over-exposure to the ARI. Norman gets killed by Triptocaine or ARI if he uses too much of either of the two.
    • Makes for a bit of a Zig-Zagging Trope, considering how often his drug relapses interfere with his investigation, and how his use of it isn't exactly doing wonders for his health. See also Driven to Suicide.
  • Expy: He's similar to Fox Mulder.
  • Estrogen Brigade Bait Has a LOT of fangirls; just look on Deviant ART or fanfiction.net.
  • Fair Cop
  • Fan Nickname: He's often referred to as "Nahman Jayden", "Nommin' Jayden", or "Agent Nahman Jayden" for his accent.
  • FBI Agent
  • Foe Yay: With Blake.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Japanese Jason Bourne's got a new job, find the Origami Killer
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: The "Resignation" ending.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Accusing Blake of being the Origami Killer will result in turning in his badge.
  • Only Honest Agent: The only useful reinforcement with common sense.
  • The Profiler: He's even referred to as such in the game. And he's actually spot-on.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure
  • Sanity Slippage: As he starts overdoing ARI, he starts experiencing visions of the ARI officeworld even without his glasses on. This continues even if he succeeds in solving the puzzle and saving Shaun's life, and it's worsened to the point where he's hallucinating miniature tanks crawling over his desk.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man
  • Shower of Angst In his suit. He just never takes it off, does he?
    • Justified by the fact that he was having some seriously disorienting and painful withdrawal symptoms at the time. The guy could barely stand upright at the time; taking off his clothes would have probably been extremely difficult.
  • Sunglasses at Night: Justified, since ARI is high-tech crime scene analysis technology. Has a song now! [1]
  • Took a Level in Badass: And HOW! Norman gets his ass handed to him by Mad Jack and The Origami Killer in Fish Tank. Jump a few chapters later to round 2 with the killer in The Old Warehouse, and Jayden's fist-fighting him on even ground, bashing his head around like a pinata with a metal pipe, and can possibly get smashed in the face with a SLEDGEHAMMER AND SURVIVE!
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: Subverted if you allow him to kill Nathaniel and Scott.
  • Troubled but Cute
  • Turn in Your Badge: The ending "Resignation".

Scott Shelby/Scott Sheppard

"Goddamn asthma, can't breathe when it rains."

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Acrofatic: Despite being on the more unhealthy side of slightly overweight, Scott is still surprisingly able to hold his ground in fast-paced fights.
  • Affably Evil: Quite apart from his friendly behaviour, the motive for his actions was to find a father willing to do anything for his son.
  • Antagonist in Mourning: "Ethan's Grave"
  • Badass
  • Badass Longcoat: A typical fashion of a hardboiled Private Detective.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's an easygoing, overweight Private Detective who looks after babies, persuades liquor store robbers to put down the gun and leave without resorting to violence, and he makes a mean omelet. He will still kick your ass if you challenge him. Also, he's a serial killer.
  • Big Bad: He's the Origami Killer.
  • The Combat Pragmatist: Scott isn't very choosy on how he takes his opponents down; assuming he doesn't actually have a gun on him, he'll often resort to using anything that can be vaguely classified as a weapon: lamps, panes of glass, bottles, furniture, Samurai swords, bits of scrap metal... and that's when he's not just pummeling them into submission with his bare hands. This becomes even more obvious in the fight between him and Jayden on the conveyer belt, in which they end up attacking each other with just about anything in reach.
  • Disney Villain Death: Falling into a trash compactor or an aquarium.
  • Expy: He looks like Douglas.
  • Freudian Excuse: His father was abusive to his kids, ultimately leaving Scott's brother to drown.
  • Go Out with a Smile: If Ethan is the one to kill him.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Gihren Zabi is seeking who can be a better son than he was.
  • Moral Event Horizon: For a lot of players, finding out the truth about him being the killer made him pretty irredeemable. To reiterate: The Origami Killer traps children in a hole in the ground that slowly fills with rain water until they slowly drown to death in the freezing cold. Exactly the same way his own brother died. Kinda fucked up.
  • Pet the Dog: Many, many moments. A big one where he treats the wounds of a woman who has failed a suicide attempt and takes care of her baby, or the scene after the incident at the watch repair place where he comforts Lauren as she's crying in the rain over her son's death. Finding out the truth about him, though, leaves all these moments open to interpretation.
  • Private Detective: Subverted. He's using it as a cover to investigate his killings and destroy any evidence.
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Villain Protagonist

Secondary Characters

Grace Mars

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Amicably Divorced: Almost. There aren't any fights or arguments witnessed in the game, but it's clear that on some level, Grace holds Ethan responsible for Jason's death.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Telling Blake about Ethan supposedly being the Origami Killer.
  • Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: One of the endings suggests that Ethan and Grace actually get back together in spite of their problems.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: She flings one of these speeches at Ethan after Shaun's disappearance. It's clear she said it under stress, though, and she almost immediately apologises for it- before breaking down in tears.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Grace is notably in a lot of the endings, with the exception of "Innocent," and "Ethan's Grave."

Lauren Winter

"I swore on my son's grave I would kill the man who murdered him."

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Broken Bird
  • Hooker with a Heart of Gold: And how!
  • It's Personal / Determinator: She is determined to discover the identity of the Origami Killer and has swore to kill him upon doing so. In the ending, "A Mother's Revenge", upon finding out that the Origami Killer is Scott, Lauren keeps her word.
  • Morality Pet: She can be interpreted as this to Scott.
  • Revenge
  • Show Some Leg: Subverted at the last minute in the level "Gordy Kramer's Party"; here, Lauren attempts to distract the stairway guards by performing a sexy dance. However, the guards are clearly under contractual obligation to not be Distracted by the Sexy, so at the end of the dance, Lauren pretends to faint from a drug overdose, drawing both guards away from the stairs and allowing Scott to sneak past them.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In the ending, "A Mother's Revenge".
  • You Must Be Cold: Scott can give her his coat to wear after the incident at Manfred's.

Lt. Carter Blake

"You think you can do a better job than me with your psychology degree and your great glasses?"

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Captain Perry

"Welcome to the club, Jayden."

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Mr. Sheppard

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Villains

The Origami Killer

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Affably Evil
  • Big Bad
  • Driving Question: Who is the Origami Killer? Scott Shelby.
  • Serial Killer: At least eight 10-13 year old children via drowning, by the start of the game. Not to mention Manfred, the Mooks he mows down in Kramer's mansion, Kramer himself (possibly), Lauren (possibly), Hassan (possibly), Shaun (possibly), Jayden (possibly), and Madison (possibly). He has a high body count.
  • Villain Protagonist

Dr. Adrian Baker, AKA Doctor Death

"Did your mother ever tell you about accepting gifts from strangers?"

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Badass Grandpa: For a man his age, Baker shows a great deal of strength and resilience; not only is he able to knock out Madison (and another caller) with one swing of a baseball bat, but should Madison actually escape the operating table, the resulting fight shows that he's able to take quite a bit of punishment- and dish it out as well.
  • The Combat Pragmatist: Not only does he throw everything within reach at Madison but he tries to kill her by tying her down on an operating table and attempting to slowly insert a power drill up a sensitive part of her body.
  • Dr. Feelgood: His primary source of income is selling prescription medicine; Madison gets into his house by pretending to be a customer.
  • Dirty Old Man: He asks Madison if she's for sale if the player asks him about the price of his medicine.
  • Evil Old Folks
  • Faux Affably Evil
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: If Madison ends up fighting Baker, she finishes him off by stabbing him in the chest with the electric drill he was about to use on her at the start of her "operation."
  • I Love the Dead: Hinted at by the way he feels up Madison's corpse, should he succeed in killing her.
  • Mad Doctor: Addicted to performing surgical operations; unfortunately, since he's been struck from the medical register and no longer permitted to practise officially, he's resorted to kidnapping people and dissecting them with power tools.
  • Obviously Evil: Only an idiot would accept a drink from someone as creepy as Adrian Baker.
  • Skippable Boss: Madison only has to fight him if a) she accepts his drink, or b) if she gets caught while wandering around his house.
  • Slipping a Mickey: When Madison enters his house, Baker offers her a drink to "take the edge off the pills." Actually drinking it sends her straight to the operating table.
  • Smug Snake
  • This Is a Drill

Jackson Neville, AKA Mad Jack

"Broke my fucking nose, pig!"

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Acid Pool: Has one hidden away in his garage, used for easy disposal of corpses.
  • Bald of Evil
  • The Brute
  • Curb Stomp Battle: For most of the second fight with Jack, Jayden is losing very badly. In fact he only wins by accident.
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: Unlike a lot of the characters in this game, Jack mainly prefers to use his fists in close combat rather than the usual barrage of improvised weaponry. The reason for this is that he's so strong he doesn't need to use anything other than his fists to beat down a trained FBI agent.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Should the second fight continue all the way to the end, Mad Jack is accidentally flattened by his own bulldozer.
  • Large Ham
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast
  • Nonchalant Dodge: During their second battle, Jayden flings a metal box at Jack. In spite of being less than three feet away, Jack dodges it easily.
  • Won't Work On Me: Just about all of Jayden's attacks are given this kind of treatment during the second battle- even if the player completes the button sequences without fail. However, the most obvious example occurs in the latter stages of the fight, when a particularly desperate Jayden throws another bit of scrap metal at close range. Jack lets it bounce off his chest.
  • Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh: At one point, Jayden attempts to beat Jack down with the front fender of a car; not only does Jack manage to soak up every single hit without even staggering, but he finishes off by snatching the fender out of the air in mid-swing and kicking Jayden in the stomach hard enough to send him tumbling for a few feet.
    • A classic version happens a little while later when Jayden attacks Jack with his bare hands; he lands at least two punches- both of which seem to hurt him more than Jack- and on the third, Jack grabs his arms and headbutts him.
  • Scary Black Man
  • Skippable Boss: His second battle, which only happens if Jayden fails to get to a dose of triptocaine in time.
  • Smug Snake
  • Tattooed Crook
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: He does try to kill Jayden with a car crusher after all!

Charles Kramer

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Affably Evil: In his first appearance.
  • The Atoner: As the owner of the construction site where John Sheppard drowned, he evidently feels some degree of responsibility for the death, as he lays flowers on John's grave every year.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: Zig-Zagged/subverted in that while he's definitely corrupt, it isn't actually connected to him being a Corporate Executive.
  • Jerkass: Wanting to legally protect his son? Gruesome, but fairly understandable. Saying no one will miss the dead boy, and calling Lauren "just a whore" if she died? Not so much.
  • Papa Wolf
  • Sadistic Choice: It doesn't impact anything but an achievement, but it says something about him that a choice whether or not to bring him his medication as he is having a heart attack is one.

Gordi Kramer

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Leland White, AKA The Taxidermist

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:
  • Black Eyes: Thanks to the poor lighting of his home, the Taxidermist's dark eyes look almost black in certain scenes.
  • Chainsaw Good: How Madison kills him if she actually fights him head-on.
  • Fat Bastard
  • Fat Slob: Obvious by the stains on his shirt, and the filthy condition of his house and (urgh!) fridge.
  • Knife Nut
  • Mummies At the Dinner Table: White has killed at least four women, and put their taxidermied bodies on display in an upstairs room of his house. He holds regular conversations with them- mostly about what new "friends" he's going to make for them next.
  • Large Ham
  • Living Doll Collector
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Upon realizing that Madison is inside his house, he treats the resulting hunt for her like a game of Hide and Seek, or Hot and Cold. Also, when chasing Madison around the corridors, he can be heard delivering his hammiest impersonation of the Big Bad Wolf.
  • Serial Killer
  • Skippable Boss: The main objective of the level is to escape White's house alive; if actually fighting the knife-wielding psychpath doesn't appeal, then Madison can easily call the police from inside the house and wait until they arrest him, or just slip out the door without White noticing.
  • Taxidermy Is Creepy: Most definitely; quite apart from the fact that the inside of White's house is filled with stuffed animal heads and carcasses, he's also used his knowledge of taxidermy to preserve the bodies of his victims as dolls.
  • Villains Out Shopping: Once he returns home, White immediately sits down in front of the TV to watch some boxing.
  • You Look Familiar: White is voiced by the same actor as Scott Shelby. Quite appropriate, then.

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