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*** [[Badass Bookworm]]
*** [[Cultured Badass]]
*** [[Badass in Aa 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.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]] and [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: The player character is now a vampire with the need for blood, perpetual nocturnal existence, countless enemies and near-invincibility that comes with it. To what extent one is blessed/cursed with suck/awesome depends on your clan.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Prince LaCroix's orders are impossible to turn down, especially since he has Dominate.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[The Wonka]]: What happens if you play a Malkavian.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Death By Origin Story]]: Your sire.
* [[Death Byby 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.
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* [[Scary Black Man]]: If Brujah and male.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]
* [[Spanner in Thethe 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.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: You have the option to treat your Heather ghoul like shit. She will just keep fawning over you anyway because she's addicted to your blood.
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* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Dude loves to hear himself talk.
* [[Sissy Villain]]
* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]: Very much believes himself to be in this position. The Anarchs hate him, the Camarilla treats him like a joke, his position hangs by a thread, and the only person he can actually throw his weight against is, well, ''you''. So he does.
* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: The ''entire frigging game'' is a series of these.
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: You'd think, especially given all the epic badassery you do for the guy, he'd wind up respecting you as at least a very useful cats paw, right? Not at all.
* [[Vampires Are Rich]]: Lives in a condo in downtown LA, decorated with quite a lot of gilt. He's certainly not poor.
* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]: Suffers one of these because of the player character's refusal to die. It comes to a head if he opens the sarcophagus - he sees the bombs and simply laughs madly until he's incinerated.}}
* [[Villain Byby Default]]
* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: His raison d'etre for everything he involves you with.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: After being forced to spare your life at the Camarilla meeting, LaCroix sends you on a series of increasingly impossible suicide missions. If you die (or fail, giving him an excuse to have you executed,) he gets what he wanted in the first place; if you survive, he gets whatever he wanted out of the mission you completed. [[Spanner in Thethe Works|If you choose to oppose him, you shoot these plans all to hell.]]
 
== Maximillian Strauss ==
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* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Literally so, in fact. He's mute. It's hard to tell how smart he is; he mostly seems to serve as a giant, scowling deterrent to attacking LaCroix physically.
* [[Flat Character]]: The only sure thing about him is that he's a mighty warrior who serves LaCroix. The reasons why can only be speculated...
* [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body]]: As Chiropteran Behemoth he can toss ''people'' at you.
* [[Made of Iron]]
* [[No Name Given]]
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: With emphasis on the deadpan.
* [[Graceful Loser]]: If you manage to figure out that he's manipulating you, he reacts with grudging admiration, unless you're a Tremere, in which case, he'll respond with utter disgust. And if you play as a fellow Nosferatu, [[So Proud of You|he just about gives you a round of applause.]]
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: The Malkavian calls him "Nasty Dude", which s/he probably picked up from Knox (or "Your Nastiness" or "[[Shout-Out|Your]] [[The Big Lebowski (Film)|Dudeness]]"). Installing the unofficial patch adds a line where he threatens to tan your hide for it before realizing he's talking to a Malkavian and then letting it drop.
* [[Knowledge Broker]]
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|Ugly Guy Hot Gal:]] Apparently he had an affair with Jeanette.
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* [[The Cracker]]: As of his induction to the Nosferatu clan, he's a friendlier example than most, but still...
* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: Mitnick fully acknowledges that his Embrace was the best thing that could have possibly happened to him.
* [[He Knows Too Much|He Knew Too Much]]: Mitnick was Embraced after managing (after burning out three laptops) to break the encryptions on a very minor Nosferatu database.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: compare and contrast with [[wikipedia:Kevin Mitnick|Kevin Mitnick]].
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* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: What she has ended up as, due to her removal from the modelling scene and new model Tawni Sessions taking her place.
* [[Guttural Growler]]: Sounds as though she has a ''really'' nasty case of laryngitis.
* [[Punished Withwith Ugly]]
* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]
 
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'''Jeanette:''' On the inside, we're all dead meat, kitten. }}
* [[Bi the Way]]: Jeanette can sleep with the player character whether they're male or female.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Jeanette's coquettish intro speech is a true act of seductive overacting. [[Grey DelisleDeLisle]] really gets to shine.
* [[Creepy Twins]]: {{spoiler|And they're the same person to boot!}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Of course, Jeanette.
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* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]]: Even more than Isaac, given how softhearted she is toward mortal and vampire alike. Probably the nicest vampire you meet in the game, unless you manage to piss her off.
* [[Gainaxing]]
* [[Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Has the personality of an extremely affable prostitute, and since she is a stripper, she's almost identical to the job description of the trope. The Heart Of Gold stems from her being genuinely very nice, not wanting kine or kindred to suffer on her account, and she even begs you in her intro quest not to get innocents involved and to use only as much force as absolutely necessary.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]
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* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: He's Sabbat. Denying their humanity and revelling in how 'evil'/inhuman they are practically goes with the territory.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: When he's not doing things that involve murder, intrigue, or [[Body Horror]], he favorite activity seems to involve [[Crowning Moment of Funny|trolling late night radio shows.]]
* [[Expy]]: Andrei is effectively Sascha Vykos from ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Masquerade]]''. The only reason Andrei's ''not'' Vykos is probably because {{spoiler|the PC kills him near the end of the game}}.
** He's also not nearly pretty enough.
* [[Dark Lord]]: Pretty much how Andrei views himself.
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* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: [[Hope Spot|He refuses to believe in Cain and the Antedeluvians]].
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Many Gangrel are [[Dumb Muscle]]. Beckett is ''not''.
* [[Gentleman and Aa Scholar|Gentleman And A Seeker of Reluctant Information]]
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: His role in the game.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Averted. his fiery red eyes are the result of an old Frenzy, and no reflection on [[Deadpan Snarker|his character.]]
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* [[The Vamp]]: Jezebel. Rather appropriate, that.
* [[Wake Up Call Boss]]: Characters who have neglected their combat skills will be hurting badly by the end of this quest series.
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: The doorkeeper of the Crackhouse, who mysteriously vanishes after you complete the quest.
* [[Wolverine Claws]]: Brother Kanker, dealing Aggravated damage.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: A small-scale one in the ruined crackhouse. And they ''keep coming''. The only way to get rid of them is to kill Vick.
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* [[Guttural Growler]]
* [[Extreme Melee Revenge]]: Just about ''all'' of his victims died by these means; the fourth one was lacerated with his claws, had his head torn off, and his body impaled on exposed rebar.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: It's possible to knock him into a fire, if you have a sledgehammer - or [[Super Strength|Potence]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: So, you've decided to spare him without first convincing him to let go of his [[Unstoppable Rage]]? Congratulations! You've just released a psychotic, self-righteous Beast-consumed vampire on Los Angeles. Bet the locals'll be in for some fun.
* [[No Name Given]]: Simply "The Killer".
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: His killing spree was conducted against the criminals who murdered his family.
* [[Serial Killer]]
* [[Talking the Monster Toto Death]]: It's entirely possible to talk him into ending his rampage.
* [[Vigilante Man]]: Thought of becoming one of these following the end of his rampage.
 
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* [[Affably Evil]]: From the snippets of conversation you catch, "Uncle" Bruno Giovanni seems fairly cordial, planning to Embrace and Ghoul a few of his family members to celebrate their recent success.
* [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]: Bruno, the Giovanni Elder presiding over the festivities.
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: One you can mess with rather hilariously. With a high persuasion score, you can get each human member of the family to reveal their secrets. You can then betray them to each other and watch the chaos ensue.
* [[Dark Secret]]: Three of the most promising members of the family have secrets that would jeopardise their chances of being Embraced; Mira is HIV-positive, Adam's business has just gone bankrupt, and Christopher's mother had an affair. All three are prepared to pay handsomely for unveiling the secrets of the other two.
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Arguably, your treatment of her can be this for you.
* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Heather isn't so much bisexual, probably, as she is [[Player Character|you]]-sexual.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: If you save her and don't speak to her upon returning from the Dane (basically only possible for a Nosferatu, as they arrive Downtown and enter the Venture tower via the sewers), she'll disappear and only show up {{spoiler|in time for the Sabbat to kill her. The implication is she's been stalking you all this time.}}
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: You can care for her, help her, and reassure her.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can take her money, feed from her, and verbally abuse her.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Hold the Line]]: Well, the gates of his cemetery. Defending them for him of the cemetery is probably the hardest mission of the whole game bar none. Characters without Celerity, a powerful gun or Protean need not apply.
* [[Need a Hand - Oror A Handjob?]]: Literally. You can help him defending the graveyard from the zombies, or you can bring him a prostitute. If sufficiently attractive, you can even, ah, help him yourself.
* [[Friendly Sniper]]
* [[The Gunslinger]]
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* [[I Love the Dead]]: Subverted, of all the people, [[Nightmare Fetishist|Vandal]] considers sex with a clinically dead vampire to be outright [[Even Evil Has Standards|disgusting]]. He also goes on to state that this was how Therese roped him into her service in the first place:
{{quote| Start breathing, you corpse: I already fell for that act once, and that's how I came to end up here.}}
* [[Kick the Son of Aa Bitch]]: After freeing poor Lily from his torture chamber, you can threaten to drain him of all his blood unless he agrees to sell more bloodpacks to you. And ''God'', it's satisfying.
** If you're a Malkavian, you can also [[Mind Rape]] him to the point where he breaks down in insane laughter. And boy, does he deserve it.
* [[Knife Nut]]
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* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: He speaks with a very audible German accent.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Wields one like all the expert Vampire Hunters.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Sets fire to the whole {{spoiler|Grout Mansion}} with you still inside, forcing you to run away. Quickly!
* [[Light'Em Up]]: Can use his faith to create a burst of pure light to blind you.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Kidnaps and involves an innocent bystander to lure you in.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: After his apparent demise he stands up one more time and pull a [[Taking You Withwith Me]]/[[Load-Bearing Boss]] on you.
* [[Vampire Hunter]]: Well, duh.
* [[Warrior Monk]]
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body]]: He attacks you with a mutilated arm. Probably his own.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Luring you into his lair wasn't his brightest move.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Along with his love of prosthetics and amputation, Gimble actually finds the Malkavian speech patterns quite charming.
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* [[Fat and Proud]]: The Malkavian will even call him "Fatman" without Larry so much as reacting.
* [[Friend in Thethe Black Market]]
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Subverted - Larry may seem like this at first, but his wares are perfectly serviceable. Plus, he gets very irritated when you suggest it.
* [[Jive Turkey]]
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* [[Bonus Boss]]
* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Has the greatest number of healthpoints, right after {{spoiler|Slug Ming Xiao.}}
* [[Everything's Even Worse Withwith Sharks|Everything Is Even Worse With Landsharks]]
* [[Laughing Mad]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: His name comes from the Smooth Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna Zygaena).
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{{quote| Hello, Lin. Do you like it here?}}
* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: A speciality of his.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: Implies that some of his customers pay for his wares with their souls.
* [[Evil Old Folks]]
* [[Eye Scream]]: "Eye Gouge Hell..."
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