History Characters / AmnesiaAMachineForPigs

* EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:He is a SoulFragment extracted from from Mandus and inserted into the Machine to give it life.]]

* [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Were killed before the game starts by Mandus both as a sacrifice to the Machine and to save from from dying in the Somme]].
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Averted as their deaths play a pivotal role in the story.]]

* [[spoiler:OffingTheOffspring: Both were killed by Oswald to prevent them from dying horrible deaths in World War I.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Not quite to the degree of the above, but certainly not nonexistant!

* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Engineer's voice has a noticeable echo, making his final gloating ever so dramatic.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Mandus murdered his own children to spare them an even more grisly death at the Battle of Somme years later.]] In a more subtle example, Mandus writes in a journal entry that he believes [[spoiler: the "split in his soul" that led to the birth of the Engineer in fact existed long before he found the Orb, caused by the love and hatred he felt for his sons at their birth.]]

* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:For all its' crimes and follies, the Engineer is almost like a bitter child happy to wish away all the problems of the world and humanity. Right up to begging "Daddy" Mandus to not kill it at the start of the game.]]

* TheKillerInMe: When Mandus touches an orb he found in South America, it shatters into two, the result is [[spoiler: a malevolent split personality, "The Engineer", is created. It dominates Oswald's decisions and character there-after, until it [[BrainUploading eventually abandons him in favor of a more powerful mechanical body]].

A strange entity who claims to know the location of Mandus' missing sons. Remaining unseen, he guides Mandus around by talking to him over telephones throughout the complex.

* MeaningfulName: Oswald Mandus is a play on Ozymandias, referencing his obsession with making his factory the "great work of the industrial age". [[spoiler:Eventually, with his insanity, fell into the lines of the poem of the same name. Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair.]]
** [[spoiler:He also shares the motive and loose methodology- causing one atrocity in order to prevent a worse one- of ''{{Watchmen}}'''s Adrian Veidt, whose former superhero name was... Ozymandias.]]

** [[Spoiler:He also shares the motive and loose methodology- causing one atrocity in order to prevent a worse one- of ''{{Watchmen}}'''s Adrian Veidt, whose former superhero name was... Ozymandias.]]

** [[Spoiler:He also shares the motive and loose methodology- causing one atrocity in order to prevent a worse one- of ''{{Watchmen}'''s Adrian Veidt, whose former superhero name was... Ozymandias.]]

** [[Spoiler:He also shares the motive and loose methodology- causing one atrocity in order to prevent a worse one- of ''{ComicBook/Watchmen}'''s Adrian Veidt, whose former superhero name was... Ozymandias.]]

* {{Badass}}: Out of all the ''Amnesia'' protagonists, he is without doubt the bravest. Consider his willingness to dive into what is essentially a mechanical hell without rancour or hesitation in order to save his children, [[spoiler:and then his red-hot fury when he realizes what the Engineer has caused him to do. How many other protagonists from this series have told off an Eldritch Abomination?]] In addition, he is perhaps the only one capable of actually some destroying the monsters that assail him; the Tesla Pigs explode if he flickers his lantern at them.
** BadassBeard: According to the Frictional Games, this [[http://amnesia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Oswald_Mandus.jpg picture]] of a Victorian gentleman is an approximation of what Mandus looks like. Combined with Mandus' extreme PapaWolf tendencies and sheer determination, he is indeed quite badass.
** BadassBoast: When endeavoring to [[spoiler:destroy the Engineer]], he refers to himself as an 'Angel of Vengeance'. And then there's this:

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Were killed before the game starts by Mandus both as a sacrifice to the Machine and to save from from dying in the Somme]]

Mandus' son, who has gone missing.

!!!Voiced by: Mark Roper

* NoNameGiven
* PosthumousCharacter

->Voiced by: Toby Longworth

->Voiced by: Mark Roper

->Voiced by: Zak Craig

* DeathByChildbirth

The main enemies encountered in the game. They come in three varieties: Wretches, Engineers, and Tesla.

* TeleportSpam: [[spoiler:The Tesla Manpigs are particularly affected by the Compound X, resulting in their bodies emitting an electrical charge and flickering in and out of existence.]] Luckily, [[spoiler:[[WeaksauceWeakness light makes them explode]]]].

* EnemyWithout

* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Mandus murdered his own children to spare them an even more grisly death at the Battle of Somme years later.]]

* OffingTheOffspring: Both were killed by Oswald to prevent them from dying horrible deaths in World War I.]]

* [[spoiler: AristocratsAreEvil: Though far, far less so than Alexander.]]

* [[spoiler: GoMadFromTheRevelation: Mandus seeing the future drove him nuts enough to murder thousands to try and stop it, including his own children.]]
* [[spoiler: HeelRealization]]

* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]

* [[spoiler: LoveMakesYouEvil: Mandus murdered his own children to spare them an even more grisly death at the Battle of Somme years later.]]

* [[spoiler: OffingTheOffspring: After seeing his children would die horrifically in the war, Mandus cut out their hearts as a ritual sacrifice in hopes of creating a god who could save the world from the slaughters of the 20th century.]]

* [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath: To protect all of London from becoming sacrifices to the Engineer, Mandus re-merges with his creation, killing them both.]]

* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: Initially, flashbacks of what appear to be earlier stages of his "collaborations" with the Engineer show Mandus as being uncomfortable with the monstrous actions he eventually convinces him to undertake. Later on, he seems to truly believe what he was doing was necessary and ultimately positive. And yet, when he beholds the Machine's motives in full for the first time...]]

* [[spoiler: AGodAmI: Due to the Orb's power and the countless sacrificed to it, as well as his "mission" to prevent the horrors of the 20th century, it considers itself a god.]]
* [[spoiler: AmbiguousInnocence: It is quite childlike in a lot of ways, for both good and bad.]]
* [[spoiler: AxCrazy: After finally tricking Mandus into reactivating the machine, all trace of friendliness and sanity slip away replaced by a cackling megalomaniac.]]
* [[spoiler: BigBad]]
* [[spoiler:DeusEstMachina: The constant sacrifices are meant to turn it and the piece of Mandus' soul it contains into a bloody god.]]
* [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination[=/=]EldritchLocation: Due to the abruptly shifting, warping, and maddening nature and layout of the machine it qualifies as the latter, which coupled with its unfathomable power qualify it as the former.]]
* [[spoiler: EnemyWithout]]
* TheEngineer
* [[spoiler: EvilIsHammy: Fittingly for an entity that commands legions of manpigs, the Engineer is about as hammy as it gets.]]
* [[spoiler: GeniusLoci]]
* [[spoiler: HauntedTechnology]]
* [[spoiler: KnightTemplar: Plans to save humanity from the nightmare of the 20th century by exterminating and enslaving them itself.]]
* [[spoiler: MadGod]]

* [[spoiler: MisanthropeSupreme]]
* MotiveRant: His [[Quotes/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs speech at the end of the game]], which describes what happens [[spoiler: in the 20th century]] is ''magnificent''.
* [[spoiler: MurderIsTheBestSolution]]
* [[spoiler: OmnicidalManiac: Has twisted countless people into the tortured manpigs and plans to use them to slaughter the entirety of humanity by feeding them to the machine.]]
** Also [[spoiler: his quotes about "splitting the egg and the atom" heavily hint that his plans are to annihilate the entire planet with the power gained from the slaughter of London's population. This is basically confirmed by cut dialogue in the game files]].
* [[spoiler: PsychopathicManchild: For all its' crimes and follies, the Engineer is almost like a bitter child happy to wish away all the problems of the world and humanity. Right up to begging "Daddy" Mandus to not kill it at the start of the game.]]
* [[spoiler: StrawNihilist]]
* TheVoice

* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: Despite his despicable crimes and plans, he genuinely wants to "save" humanity and to stop the countless wars and genocides that will come with the 20th century.]]

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Were killed before the game starts by Mandus both as a sacrifice to the Machine and to save from from dying in the Somme]]

** [[spoiler: HarmfulToMinors]]
* [[spoiler: OffingTheOffspring: Both were killed by Oswald to prevent them from dying horrible deaths in World War I.]]

* [[spoiler: PosthumousCharacter]]

* [[spoiler:TeleportSpam]]: [[spoiler:The Tesla Manpigs are particularly affected by the Compound X, resulting in their bodies emitting an electrical charge and flickering in and out of existence.]] Luckily, [[spoiler:[[WeaksauceWeakness light makes them explode]]]].

* StartXToStopX: His FatalFlaw, arguably. He has no other way to [[BuffySpeak combat what he hates other than to use what he hates to combat what he hates]].

* TheAtoner: To an even greater extant than Daniel, from the previous game.

* FantasticRacism: The different varieties seem to have some issues with each other. At one point, you can see an Engineer violently beating a Wrecth for no apparent reason.

The main enemies encountered in the game. They come in three varieties: Wrecthes, Engineers, and Tesla.

* FantasticRacism: The different varieties seem to have issues with each other. At one point, you can see an Engineer violently beating a Wrecth for no apparent reason.