Fallout: New Vegas/Characters/New California: Difference between revisions

''"I would sooner spit on the grave of my dead mother than let some courier-walk-the-wasteland-fuck talk to me like that. Who the hell do you think you are? Looking to cash your chips to the sound of NCR bullets, eh? I can oblige."''|General Oliver when {{spoiler|confronted by an army of Securitrons commanded by Yes Man}} }}

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|House gives him around a 40% chance of doing this in his ending. Probably applies to the Independent route, too.}}.

* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|If you threaten to order your robot army to attack the NCR embassy or have the Boomers bomb the NCR's founding states in the Yes Man/Independent ending, he will agree to retreat since he doesn't want to throw away the lives of innocent NCR citizens just to make a point.}}.

** He is, however, willing to {{spoiler|sacrifice hundreds or even thousands of NCR troops to get his name written in the history books.}}.

** [[Straw Man Has a Point|Jerkass Has A Point]]: If you take the Wild Card ending and successfully bluff him out of attacking you, he'll have a brief conversation with you criticizing you for thinking you have what it takes to build a nation (build roads, train troops, maintain trade routes, etc.). At first, this may just look like Oliver being, well, Oliver, but when you think about it, he does have a point about a random package courier not being the best person to run New Vegas. {{spoiler|He actually is partly right; the Courier doesn't have what it takes to build an NCR-style liberal democracy or provide widespread support and social services for the people, but that outcome may not be what he/she sees as best for the Mojave.}}.

*** [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: The player can respond with "Can't do worse than the NCR." {{spoiler|Then proceed to get Yes Man to push him off Hoover Dam.}}.

* [[Kaizo Trap]]: In the House and Independence endings; while Oliver himself dies quite easily, his 5 [[Elite Mooks|Veteran Ranger]] bodyguards armed with brush guns are entirely capable of mowing down a level 30 power-armor wearing player before the Securitrons can kill them, if the player tries to make a stand and fight instead of running away and letting the Securitrons do their job. (Thethe rate of fire on the brush gun has been noticeably reduced after the most recent patch, so this doesn't happen quite as often, although it can still occur).

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: He is nicknamed "General Wait-And-See" by lower ranking NCR soldiers since he refuses to listen to the advice from his officers that he should launch smaller attacks against the Legion instead of just sitting and waiting. {{spoiler|It is later revealed that he want to gather enough troops to push the Legion out of the area in a single decisive battle. By doing so, he hopes to become a war hero that overshadows Chief Hanlon of the Rangers.}}. Also, according to Boone, he's the reason that Colonel Hsu isn't a General at this point.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the Wild Card ending. {{spoiler|Seriously, the guy/gal you're threatening has an entire robot army lined up behind them ''and'' you. No matter how proud you are, do not remark that you would not show mercy under the same circumstances. It's a long way down}}...}}

''"Calm is what you have to be when people look to you. And it's all you can be when things are out of your hands."'' }}

* [[Stealth Pun]]/[[Punny Name]]: ''Very'' subtly done, especially given the spelling of his name (as opposed to the more phonetic Shu). He is referred to in dialogue simply as Colonel Hsu and the HUD gives his full name, Col. James Hsu: Onlyonly through the Power of [[Fridge Logic]] does one notice that in a casual setting his name could be ''Jim'' Hsu...

''"Unlike the good ambassador, I don't intend to blink."'' }}

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type V. If her actions weren't directed against groups like Caesar's Legion and the Omertas, she'd be a straight up villain.

* [[The Dragon]]: To General Oliver.

** Troop chatter hints that she only wants to get rid of the Omertas to get back at them for kicking her out of Gomorrah,; though to be fair, you don't really need a substantial reason to hate the Omertas.

* [[Glory Hound]]: Some [[Dummied Out]] content reveals that she gets promoted post-game in the event of an NCR ending -: most-likely due to taking credit for the Courier's missions.

* [[Kicked Upstairs]]: She was shot during the BOS War and was so hampered by the injury, she was booted upstairs since she could no longer serve the NCR the way she loved, on patrol in the wastes.

* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Seeing diplomacy as ineffectual and a waste of time when there's a war to be fought, she is more than satisfied with the player's actions if they decide to wipe out the Khans, the Kings, and the Brotherhood of Steel (but she will accept an alliance with the Khans since she appreciates the idea of them being machete bait). Still, her ideas do prove to have some merit in regards to Mr. House and the Omertas; {{spoiler|House is, in fact, planning to make a move against the NCR at the Dam, and the Omertas are planning to act on Caesar's behalf.}}.

''"I wish I could explain it to you. The old chief's finally at a loss for words."'' }}

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: {{spoiler|If the Courier chooses to expose the fact that he's been falsifying information, he gives a speech through the intercom to his men before committing suicide.}}.

* [[Guile Hero]]: When asked what his proudest achievement is during his long career as a Ranger, Hanlon doesn't talk about Hoover Dam or any other military campaign, but rather tells a story about a group of NCR settlers who had gone missing and whom Hanlon was dispatched to find. Upon finding them, he finds that they have taken over the only water supply in the entire area, and had "self-defensed" hundreds of indigenous people to death when they tried to reclaim their water. Hanlon tricked the settlers into believing the tribals had succeeded in wiping out Hanlon's entire Ranger squad (when in fact Hanlon had been sent alone), scaring them into abandoning the settlement and returning to California with Hanlon and thus ending the situation without further bloodshed. This provides an insight into how Hanlon views himself, and somewhat explains his decision to {{spoiler|fake demoralizing battle reports to drop NCR morale, in order to force an end to the Mojave Campaign and have the troops return home to California.}}.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: While loyal to the NCR, he's quite disillusioned about the Mojave campaign, seeing it more as a waste of life than anything. {{spoiler|If you let him continue his subterfuge plot and end the game with either Mr. House or Yourself in power, he finally decides to do something about it and proverbially surfs the resulting [[0% Approval Rating|wave of disapproval against President Kimball]] and scores himself a Senate seat for his hometown of Redding.}}.

* [[Knight Templar]]: {{spoiler|Turns out he's actively falsifying information and sabotaging NCR defenses in hopes this will get them to pull out, despite the fact that this can very easily get many NCR soldiers and almost everyone in the Mojave killed.}}.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: In the event of a Legion victory, Hanlon chooses {{spoiler|not to flee from the advancing Legion, and meets Caesar. Out of respect for his prowess as a warrior, Caesar has him beheaded. Should Caesar be dead, the Legate is not so kind.}}.

''Interested in politics, eh? Well, grab a seat and get comfortable.'' }}

The current president of the NCR. He was a former war hero and general for the NCR during early stages of the Mojave Campaign, made popular by his heavy handed tactics in destroying tribals in the area that are hostile against the NCR. During the main quest, he makes a visits Hoover Dam to give a motivational speech for the troops stationed there, {{spoiler|where three assassination attempts are made on him within the timespan of five minutes}}.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Personally making a public visit to a location directly next door to your biggest enemy's base of operations. It's arguably a matter of pride, though; his comments ([[Is This Thing Still On?|broadcast over the PA]]) indicate that he's well aware he could be shot and doesn't want to stay any longer than he has to.

A group of NCR Snipers stationed at Camp McCarran. They are known in-universe for being total [[Badass|Badasses.]] The group is comprised of Lieutenant Gorobets, Sergeant Bitter-Root, Corporal Sterling, Corporal Betsy, and the new kid, 10 of Spades. Craig Boone and Manny Vargas are former members, and both still wear their First Recon berets.

* [[Badass]]:

** [[Action Girl]]: Corporal Betsy.

** [[Badass Creed]]: ''The last thing you never see.''. Boone himself (a former alumni) comments [[Understatement|"It's pretty accurate, and so were we."]]

** [[Determinator]]: Sterling was tortured to the point his hands and feet were fucked up. Instead of letting that slow him down, ''he escaped captivity by crawling away on his knees and elbows.''.

** [[Submissive Badass]]: Betsy. In fact, it's the best way to resolve the quest to get her therapy, via going drill sergeant on her and telling her she needs to be psychologically fit to fight or she's useless as a soldier. Gorobets wanted to do this, but due to being aware of his own chronic [[A Father to His Men]] tendencies, he asks a third party (the Courier) to get her to seek help because he was afraid of straining relations with his subordinate by being a hardass.

* [[Butch Lesbian]]: Betsy.

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Gorobets, to the point it bites him on the ass in regards to Betsy, who he wants to pull rank on, but can't because he doesn't want to further demoralize her, hence he asks the Courier to do what he can't bring himself to do. That aside, he's a well liked officer as a result of this trope.

** [[The Hero]]: Gorobets.

** [[The Lancer]]: Bitter-Root.

** The [[The Big Guy]]: Corporal Sterling.

** The [[The Smart Guy]]: 10 of Spades.

** [[Action Girl|The Action Girl: Betsy]].

* [[It's All My Fault]]: 10 of Spades believes it's his fault {{spoiler|Betsy was raped.}}. You have to option of [[Video Game Caring Potential|comforting him]] or [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|rubbing it in.]]

* [[One of the Boys]]: Betsy.

* [[The Squadette]]: Betsy.