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* [[Badass]]: A quality that all PCs must eventually develop to complete the game.
** [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: At the very least.
*** [[Badass Bookworm]]: If willing to put the [[Experience Points]] into it, to the extent that your knowledge can impress Beckett, a [[Badass Bookworm]] with centuries of seniority.
*** [[Cultured Badass]]: The Toreador and Ventrue characters both present this image, and any character can be played this way with the right investment of experience points.
*** [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: Ventrue heavy armor are suits. The heaviest armor for men continues this with a [[Badass Longcoat]] and a [[Waistcoat of Style]] to boot.
* [[BFS]]: An option via Console Commands. The player character can wield the Buster Sword-esque Sheriff's sword.
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* [[Celibate Hero]] - [[Really Gets Around]]: Inverted. The PC is a vampire and can't have sex like a normal person but can seduce anyone they like with enough points in Seduction (for blood rather than sex, with the seducee left with the impression that something sexy took place). Likewise, they can be 'celibate' and just live off rats or blood bags.
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Female Toreador and Ventrue wear these, and don't break a sweat swinging swords and axes in heels.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The player gets a lot of options to snark in conversation. This goes double for the Nosferatu PC, whose coping mechanism for dealing with their hideous appearance seems to reside mostly in self-deprecating jokes any time a mortal reacts with disgust upon seeing them.
* [[Death by Origin Story]]: Your sire.
* [[Death by Sex]]: Well, undeath by sex.
* [[The Dragon]]: The PC has the option of becoming this to Maximilian Strauss, LaCroix (though that doesn't turn out so well) or potentially Nines if you choose to throw in your lot with him and his cause.
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Seems to be what happens if you play a Female Malkavian.
* [[Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire]]: While the PC is frequently put into very unsavory situations, it's quite possible to come off as a decent, reasonable person with a troublesome condition in a harsh, unreasonable world.
* [[The Grotesque]]: Pretty much guaranteed for Nosferatu protagonists.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Almost certainly what the final battle against LaCroix will be by the time you get to it.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: If Brujah and male.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Most of the dialogues have this as an option, but playing it straight is up to the player. Unless you let your Humanity drop too much, in which case you'll have difficulties coming off as anything but this trope.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: You choose which factions to back and/or destabilise... of course, to survive in the World of Darkness, it's in your best interests to make ''every'' faction think you are working for ''them'', which makes you ideally placed to destroy other people's gambits.
* [[Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder]]: For LaCroix.
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* [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]: The PC gets to be Sheriff of the City in the Camarilla ending. If they side with the Anarchs, it's very likely they will be second in command to Nine's Rodriguez in his new order.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You have a few options for it like blackmailing Lily, driving the Thin Blood vampire hunter to his death, or just randomly burning people's minds out with Dementation every chance you get.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: As with most open-ended RPGs, this is definitely an option. As long as you make a reasonable effort to keep up [[The Masquerade]], you can be as depraved as you like. And let's face it, sometimes upholding the Masquerade involves having to [[Leave No Witnesses]].
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