History Characters / BrothersInArms

* NonActionGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as he ''is'' still a paratrooper on the front lines, but as the squad's [[CommunicationsOfficer radio man]], he is rarely in the thick of it like Baker and the rest of the squad is. Most of the time, he is with Hassay so he can remain in contact with Headquarters and coordinate troop movements, but sometimes he is sent with Baker to assist. [[spoilers: Such as the time when he was with Allen and Garnett when they died.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Boom Headshot}}]]: [[spoiler: How he is killed by a German sniper.]]

* {{Historical Domain Character}}: One of the real-life members of the 101st depicted in all three games.
* [[spoiler:{{Killed Offscreen}}]]: We only see [[spoiler: his body.]] Subverted when [[spoiler: a flashback immediately follows said scene showing the exact circumstances of his death.]]

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* [[spoiler: FamousLastWords: "I'm...pretty fucked up here, Sarge...I used...everything...I had to [[TheDyingWalk get us here]]..."]]

* [[spoiler:{{Chunky Salsa Rule}}]]: Invoked ''dramatically'' when [[spoiler: he dies. The point-blank shot from the tank reduces him to a pink mist in the air and a red smear on the ground.]]
* [[spoiler: FamousLastWords: "We really should stop meeting like this, Red![...]Alright! Well who's going left this time?"]]
* {{Hero of Another Story}}: He serves as this in "Earned in Blood".
* [[spoiler:{{Ludicrous Gibs}}]]: This happens after [[spoiler: he is shot by a tank.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Not Enough to Bury}}]]: [[spoiler: He gets hit directly by a tank shell, which causes his body to disintegrate instantly (see ChunkySalsaRule above). The only thing left of him aside from his Thompson is his unit patch.]]

* {{Rank Up}}: He is promoted from private to corporal and fire team leader before Operation Market Garden.

* {{Communications Officer}}: He serves as the squad radio operator.
* [[spoiler:FamousLastWords: "You want me? ''[[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] take me! '''TAKE ME!'''''"]]
* {{Foregone Conclusion}}: [[spoiler:His death at Hill 30 is the opening of the game.]]
* {{Heroic BSOD}}: He suffers one after he [[spoiler:gets Allen and Garnett killed.]]

* {{Smart People Wear Glasses}}: He is one of the smartest people in the squad and the only one to wear glasses.
* {{Suicide by Cop}}: [[spoiler:He is unable to deal with the guilt caused by Allen and Garnett's deaths and so stands out of trench to shoot at a German tank with a pistol to make it kill him.]]
* {{Survivors Guilt}}: [[spoiler:He holds a large amount of guilt for the role he played in Allen and Garnett's deaths and this, coupled with Baker making him keep his role a secret and thus suppress the emotions leads him to commit the {{Suicide by Cop}} mentioned above.]]

The protagonist and player character in ''Road to Hill 30'' and ''Hell's Highway''. Promoted to Squad Leader just before the D-Day jump and put in charge of a Recon Squad just before Operation Market Garden. He struggles with leading his squad and guilt from losing men due to his actions, [[spoiler: and coming down with PTSD which starts to adversely affect him in Holland.]]

* OneManArmy: In the the penultimate mission of ''Road to Hill 30'', he is sent by Mac on his lonesome to find TheCavalry. He succeeds despite the Germans and three tanks in the way (though he won't actually take these out himself). In the second mission of ''Hell's Highway'', he searches a Dutch mansion for German machine gunners. [[spoiler: And when searching the hospital for Franky, at least until Red comes to the rescue.]]

** Played Straight however in ''Hell's Highway'' [[spoiler: when he gives a rousing speech to his men at the end of the game when his squad began to doubt his command.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: In ''Hell's Highway'', where he begins seeing hallucinations in the midst of combat.]]

** He gains an additional scar in "Hell's Highway" when [[spoiler: the cafe he and Hartsock are in is destroyed by a mortar.]]

* ShellShockedVeteran: [[spoiler: Heading this way in ''Hell's Highway''. In addition to still having nightmares of the Normandy battles, he begins to see and hear hallucinations of Leggett, Allen, Garnett, Franky, and even Hartsock.]]

* RankUp: He desperately wants to be promoted to Sergeant much like Baker and Hartsock, but this is ultimately averted when Baker, [[spoiler: in the wake of Frankie's death, chooses Paddock for promotion instead]].

* TookALevelInCynic: During the first game, he was one of the more idealistic members of Baker's Squad, to the point he was one of the few people who still vouched for Leggett [[spoiler: following the ambush that he led with Allen and Garnett going array and killing the two of them]]. By the third, he's already started to question Baker following his repeated rejections for promotion. It finally comes to a head when [[spoiler: he finds out the truth regarding the former event.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: To Baker after the latter tells the truth regarding Allen and Garnett's deaths. This is motivated by a combination of being passed over for promotion, finding out Leggett's role in Allen's and Garnett's deaths, and being mad at Baker for keeping the second one a secret from him, despite Baker having saved his life.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: To Baker [[spoiler: until he finds out the truth regarding Allen and Garnett's deaths.]]
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Despite Baker saving his life after being critically wounded, he instead becomes even more of a {{jerkass}} towards him, not helped by the fact that he had just found out the circumstances regarding Allen and Garnett's deaths.]]
* YouAreNotReady: Baker tells him this as the reason [[spoiler: he's passed over for promotion as Second Squad's new leader]]. It doesn't help that [[spoiler: he was partially responsible for Frankie's death, by not keeping him in check.]]

The radio operator for Baker's squad. Leggett is naive and idealistic thinking that all stories have happy endings, Through the series he learns that in war this is rarely the case. He strikes up a rivalry with Allen and Garnett which reaches its climax during [[spoiler: an assault on an enemy held farm house when he starts a fight with Allen which leads to Allen and Garnett being killed. He is unable to live with the guilt of what he has done and eventually throws himself in front of an enemy tank during the battle of Hill 30, killing himself.]]

* BreakTheCutie: He goes from one of the more idealistic soldiers in Baker's squad just prior to the invasion to [[spoiler: a guilt-ridden wreck just before getting killed by a tank shell.]]

* {{Foregone Conclusion}}: [[spoiler: His death at Hill 30 is the opening of the game.]]
* {{Heroic BSOD}}: He suffers one after he [[spoiler: gets Allen and Garnett killed.]]
* {{Pride}}: His pride is ultimately what causes [[spoiler: Allen's and Garnett's deaths.]]

* {{Suicide by Cop}}: [[spoiler: He is unable to deal with the guilt caused by Allen and Garnett's deaths and so stands out of trench to shoot at a German tank with a pistol to make it kill him.]]
* {{Survivors Guilt}}: [[spoiler: He holds a large amount of guilt for the role he played in Allen and Garnett's deaths and this, coupled with Baker making him keep his role a secret and thus suppress the emotions leads him to commit the {{Suicide by Cop}} mentioned above.]]
* TemptingFate: Just minutes before [[spoiler: Allen and Garnett are killed, he screams loudly for the Germans to come kill them. While he survives unscathed, Allen and Garnett aren't so lucky.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Yeah, Kevin. Calling out the Germans to come kill you, Allen, and Garnett in the middle of an open field is a [[SarcasmMode brilliant idea]] ]].

* BoomHeadshot:[[spoiler: See {{Killed Off For Real}} below.]]

* KilledOffForReal:[[spoiler: Shot in the head by a German sniper in Carentan.]]

* {{Surprisingly Sudden Death}}:[[spoiler: One second he is joking with his friends about how he plans to celebrate liberating Carentan, then next second he is shot dead by a sniper.]]

* BerserkButton: A few days after [[spoiler: Franky's]] death, Mike catches a British soldier wearing [[spoiler:Franky's]] Airborne jacket. [[DudeNotFunny Infuriated]], Dawson has to be restrained from picking a fight with a half-dozen Brits.

--> '''Dawson:''' [Pointing to [[spoiler: Franky's]] name on the jacket] Does this look ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] random'' to you?
* {{Blackmail}}: He threatens Baker with [[spoiler: spilling the true circumstances of Allen's, Garnett's, and Leggett's deaths]] himself, and is only holding back on the reason that it's the Sergeant's job to reveal it and not him.

* {{Jerkass}}: Like Paige, he's a tad bit insubordinate, brash, and aloof. Down to blackmailing Baker with regards to [[spoiler: the true circumstances of Allen's and Garnett's deaths]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: That said, his blackmailing towards Baker has some merit in that [[spoiler: not revealing what really happened to Allen and Garnett]] would break the trust between him (Baker), and the rest of his squad. His point is proven later when [[spoiler: Corrion]] is utterly disgusted at his actions, and as a result [[TookALevelInJerkass takes a level in jerkass]] towards Baker.

A young Private in Baker's squad who serves as part of Baker's fire team in Normandy. He is best friends with Private Garnett and shares a rivalry with Leggett [[spoiler:He is killed along with Garnett three days after D-Day while trying to flank a farm house held by the enemy. He and Leggett get in a fight that alerts nearby Germans to their presence and the Germans take them by surprise. He bleeds to death after he kills the Germans who attacked them, his final words being an apology to Leggett.]]

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: In ''Road to Hill 30'', where we only hear the brief firefight where he and Garnett die, and Baker only finds his and Garnett's bodies not long afterward.]] Subverted in ''Hell's Highway'', where [[spoiler:we finally get treated to how both he and Garnett were killed.]]

* {{Killed Mid Sentence}}:[[spoiler: "Leggett, Allen get the fu-"]]

* {{Fingore}}:[[spoiler: He gets his ring finger blown off in Bapute.]]

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[[caption-width-right:162:"''Momma said to come home alive...''"]]

One of the 1st squad members folded into 2nd alongside Campbell and [=McConnell=].

* ThoseTwoGuys: With Mcconnell. [[spoiler: Doesn't last.]]

!!Private Derrick [=McConnell=]
Hailing from Florida, [=McConnell=] is one of the original 1st squad members folded into 2nd following Red's promotion.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Not the brightest soldier in either of the squads, but he's still a very competent soldier and team leader regardless.

* RankUp: [[spoiler: He is promoted from corporal to sergeant near the end of "Hell's Highway".]]

* {{Open Says Me}}: He attempts this on the front door of a church in Eindhoven.
** [[WeHaveTheKeys But only succeeds in hurting his foot and finds that the door was already unlocked]].
* {{You Are in Command Now}}: [[spoiler: He is promoted to sergeant after Hartsock is wounded.]]

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[[caption-width-right:149:"''There's a thousand people that need our help right now!''"]]

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Is forced to act as one for Paddock.

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* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:His first and only appearance in Hell's Highway, no less.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Killed by a sniper hiding in a burning building.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: We only see him after he dies.]]

!!Sgt. Kelly
An M5 Stuart Tank commander in the same unit as Risner's. Like Hartsock, he's been ordered to check on the Chateau Colombieres during the mission of the same name.

* TheCavalry:

* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: He gets paralyzed from the waist down late in ''Hell's Highway''.]]

* {{Promoted to Playable}}: In "Earned in Blood"

* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: To Baker after the latter tells the truth regarding Allen and Garnett's deaths.]]

* ContemplateOurNavels: Big time in ''Road to Hill 30''. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Earned in Blood'', as paraphrased below:
---> "Back in England, we'd be playing baseball or something, not Baker! He'd always be off staring at the sky or some shit!"