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!!The Protagonist / "Empty Fuck" / [[VideoGame/{{Brigador}} MT Foxtrot]] / "John Cruelty"
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!!The Protagonist / "Empty Fuck" / "Freak Shit" / [[VideoGame/{{Brigador}} MT Foxtrot]] / Jeremy Coomer / "John Cruelty"
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* TheSoulless: Implied if you [[spoiler:die enough times to]] enable the Flesh Automaton difficulty, as it's said that the protagonist's "divine link" is severed and he is described as a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin flesh automaton]] controlled by neurotransmitters, giving the impression that whatever made him ''alive'' was just cut off from him.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: An apathetic loser assassin who ends up [[spoiler: ascending to Godhood and ''unmakes the universe'']].
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: An apathetic loser assassin who ends up [[spoiler: ascending to Godhood and ''unmakes the universe'']].
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** Mainly of the [[HeroicMime Silent]] ExperiencedProtagonist with [[AppliedPhlebotinum equippable powers and upgrades]] to make him an unstoppable killer. Where one would be expecting the perfect avatar for their power fantasy, the protagonist is instead a broken shell of a being that is simply far too apathetic to verbally communicate. Resigned in his depressing life experiences, he uses combat experience gained from his time at a death squadron he was just laid off from to be a contracted killer [[ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree treated the same way a pizza guy delivers food]].
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** Mainly of the [[HeroicMime Silent]] ExperiencedProtagonist with [[AppliedPhlebotinum equippable powers and upgrades]] to make him an unstoppable killer. Where one would be expecting the perfect avatar for their power fantasy, the protagonist is instead a broken shell of a being that is simply far too apathetic to verbally communicate. Resigned in his depressing life experiences, he uses combat experience gained from his time at a death squadron he was just laid off from to be a contracted killer [[ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree treated the same way a pizza guy delivers food]]. Any moments of emotions he may feel are in the form of off-screen "freakouts" he's being conditioned to hide and lessen.
* TheStoic: PlayedWith. He basically never says anything, nor displays any emotional response to just about anything, but it doesn't come from a place of discipline or stoicism, but rather because he's extremely depressed and also on a "Special" cocktail of combat drugs. Some of it also comes from a mental conditioning app as required for his job, and his handler comments that he can't have "{{freakout}}s", [[NotSoStoic implying that's an issue Empty has]].
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* TheStoic: PlayedWith. He basically never says anything, nor displays any emotional response to just about anything, but it doesn't come from a place of discipline or stoicism, but rather because he's extremely depressed and also on a "Special" cocktail of combat drugs. Some of it also comes from a mental conditioning app as required for his job, and his handler comments that he can't have "{{freakout}}s", [[NotSoStoic implying that's an issue Empty has]].
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* AxCrazy: Towards the end game [[spoiler:he starts directing you to murder higher-ups of your own organization.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:He unexpectedly turns on you without warning and sends a group of Cruelty Squad members to kill you in one mission. In the next mission he apologizes, stating that it was due to an error.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:He unexpectedly turns on you without warning and sends a group of Cruelty Squad members to kill you in one mission. In the next mission he apologizes, stating that it was due to an error.]]
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* AxCrazy: Towards the end game [[spoiler:he starts directing you to murder the elites of the world outside of anything contracted for you just because [[ForTheEvulz he thinks it would be funny]]]]. [[spoiler:It escalates to him higher-ups of your own organization.]]
organization and reaches its worst point when he encourages you to face "the ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT"]].
* FaceHeelTurn:[[spoiler:He He unexpectedly turns on you and without warning and sends [[spoiler:turns on you, sending a group of Cruelty Squad members to kill you in one mission. In mission]]. [[spoiler:In the next mission he briefly apologizes, stating that it was due to an error.error at HQ.]]
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* MysteriousPast: What relationship he had with Empty Fuck in the past isn't clear, but what's obvious is that there is a relationship. He's introduced by mockingly asking if he's woken up Empty from his depression nap and calling him a "fucked up detached loser", while also giving him a needed job offer that he thinks Empty can enjoy: VitriolicBestBuds, or just [[JerkAss vitriolic]]?
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* MysteriousPast: What relationship he had with Empty Fuck in the past isn't clear, but what's obvious is that there is a relationship. He's introduced by mockingly asking if he's woken up Empty from his depression nap and calling him a "fucked up detached loser", while also giving him a needed job offer that he thinks Empty can enjoy: VitriolicBestBuds, or just [[JerkAss vitriolic]]?vitriolic]]?
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** There's also Deconstruction of the CorporateSamurai as a reliable and deadly button man under the employ of a megacorporation. He's expected to follow through with his dodgy company's high demands and standards even if he isn't sufficiently equipped to face the brutality of each level. Since it's only through their OffscreenVillainDarkMatter that they can respawn and try again, they're at Cruelty Squad's mercy and should be careful if they die one too many times for "hogging" the recombinator.
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** There's also Deconstruction of the CorporateSamurai CorporateSamurai, as a reliable and deadly button man under the employ of a megacorporation. megacorporation is ''not'' something worth striving to be: He's expected to follow through with his dodgy company's high demands and standards even if he isn't sufficiently equipped to face the brutality of each level. Since it's only through their OffscreenVillainDarkMatter that they can respawn and try again, they're at Cruelty Squad's mercy and should be careful if they die one too many times for "hogging" the recombinator. He's such a doormat that [[spoiler:after HQ ''accidentally sends a hit'' on him due to negligent dialing]], they expect him to simply shrug it off and go back to work the next day like they do. And he's so entrenched in his apathy that this is exactly what he does.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype:
** Mainly of the [[HeroicMime Silent]] ExperiencedProtagonist with [[AppliedPhlebotinum equippable powers and upgrades]] to make him an unstoppable killer. Where one would be expecting the perfect avatar for their power fantasy, the protagonist is instead a broken shell of a being that is simply far too apathetic to verbally communicate. Resigned in his depressing life experiences, he uses combat experience gained from his time at a death squadron he was just laid off from to be a contracted killer [[ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree treated the same way a pizza guy delivers food]].
** There's also Deconstruction of the CorporateSamurai as a reliable and deadly button man under the employ of a megacorporation. He's expected to follow through with his dodgy company's high demands and standards even if he isn't sufficiently equipped to face the brutality of each level. Since it's only through their OffscreenVillainDarkMatter that they can respawn and try again, they're at Cruelty Squad's mercy and should be careful if they die one too many times for "hogging" the recombinator.
** Mainly of the [[HeroicMime Silent]] ExperiencedProtagonist with [[AppliedPhlebotinum equippable powers and upgrades]] to make him an unstoppable killer. Where one would be expecting the perfect avatar for their power fantasy, the protagonist is instead a broken shell of a being that is simply far too apathetic to verbally communicate. Resigned in his depressing life experiences, he uses combat experience gained from his time at a death squadron he was just laid off from to be a contracted killer [[ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree treated the same way a pizza guy delivers food]].
** There's also Deconstruction of the CorporateSamurai as a reliable and deadly button man under the employ of a megacorporation. He's expected to follow through with his dodgy company's high demands and standards even if he isn't sufficiently equipped to face the brutality of each level. Since it's only through their OffscreenVillainDarkMatter that they can respawn and try again, they're at Cruelty Squad's mercy and should be careful if they die one too many times for "hogging" the recombinator.
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* SociopathicSoldier: Heavily implied to have been a variant of "The Broken Soldier", resigned to severe depression after working the day-today in a government death squad. Now he takes any combat experience he earned from that time into his new trade of corporate murder-for-hire.
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* AxCrazy: A downplayed example. While he doesn't enjoy gunning down scores of people, he never expresses any guilt over it either, simply viewing it with complete indifference.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: He seems to be dark skin based on his character model, but the game's low-resolution graphics makes it hard to tell.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: He seems to be dark skin dark-skinned based on his character model, but the game's low-resolution graphics makes it hard to tell.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: He seems to be black based on his character model, but the game's low-polygon graphics makes it hard to tell.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He does seem to have some kind of mental illness, likely some form of depression, since in the opening cutscene The Handler asks if he's "waken [Empty Fuck] up from [his] depression nap", calls him a "fucked up detached loser", and tells Empty Fuck that he'll have to use a conditioning app 15 minutes a day in order to prevent any "freakouts". Aside from that, he barely even flinches to anything, even if it's casually watching a mass shooting from afar, killing random people, or [[spoiler:reducing the whole universe to nothing to stabilize Life and Death]].
* AmbiguousDisorder: He does seem to have some kind of mental illness, likely some form of depression, since in the opening cutscene The Handler asks if he's "waken [Empty Fuck] up from [his] depression nap", calls him a "fucked up detached loser", and tells Empty Fuck that he'll have to use a conditioning app 15 minutes a day in order to prevent any "freakouts". Aside from that, he barely even flinches to anything, even if it's casually watching a mass shooting from afar, killing random people, or [[spoiler:reducing the whole universe to nothing to stabilize Life and Death]].
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: He seems to be black dark skin based on his character model, but the game's low-polygon low-resolution graphics makes it hard to tell.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He does seem to have some kind of mental illness, likely some form of depression, since in the opening cutscene The Handler asks if he's "waken [Empty Fuck] up from [his] depression nap", calls him a "fucked up detached loser", and tells Empty Fuck that he'll have to use a conditioning app 15 minutes a day in order to prevent any "freakouts". Aside from that, he barely even flinches to anything, even if it's casually watching a mass shooting from afar, killing random people, or [[spoiler:reducing the whole universe to nothing to stabilize Life and Death]].tell.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He does seem to have some kind of mental illness, likely some form of depression, since in the opening cutscene The Handler asks if he's "waken [Empty Fuck] up from [his] depression nap", calls him a "fucked up detached loser", and tells Empty Fuck that he'll have to use a conditioning app 15 minutes a day in order to prevent any "freakouts". Aside from that, he barely even flinches to anything, even if it's casually watching a mass shooting from afar, killing random people, or [[spoiler:reducing the whole universe to nothing to stabilize Life and Death]].
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* TheStoic: PlayedWith. He basically never says anything, nor displays any emotional response to just about anything, but it doesn't come from a place of discipline or stoicism, but rather because he's extremely depressed, is logged onto a mental conditioning app at least 15 minutes per day, and is also on a "Special" cocktail of combat drugs.
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* TheStoic: PlayedWith. He basically never says anything, nor displays any emotional response to just about anything, but it doesn't come from a place of discipline or stoicism, but rather because he's extremely depressed, is logged onto a mental conditioning app at least 15 minutes per day, depressed and is also on a "Special" cocktail of combat drugs.drugs. Some of it also comes from a mental conditioning app as required for his job, and his handler comments that he can't have "{{freakout}}s", [[NotSoStoic implying that's an issue Empty has]].
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* WorkingClassHero: Well, more like Working Class VillainProtagonist. His employment in Cruelty Squad is coded to be a lot like being a gig economy assassin: paid measly wages for each kill, having limited human interaction for his job, and his employment being apparently very easy to obtain.
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Towards the end game he starts directing you to murder higher-ups of your own organization.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: He unexpectedly turns on you without warning and sends a group of Cruelty Squad members to kill you in one mission. In the next mission he apologizes, stating that it was due to an error.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: He unexpectedly turns on you without warning and sends a group of Cruelty Squad members to kill you in one mission. In the next mission he apologizes, stating that it was due to an error.]]
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Towards the end game he [[spoiler:he starts directing you to murder higher-ups of your own organization.]]
* FaceHeelTurn:[[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He unexpectedly turns on you without warning and sends a group of Cruelty Squad members to kill you in one mission. In the next mission he apologizes, stating that it was due to an error.]]
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* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:When he starts having Empty gunning for the higher-ups, he seems to mostly be doing it for a laugh]].
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* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:When he starts having Empty gunning for the higher-ups, higher-ups]] in the final acts of the game, he seems to mostly be doing it for a laugh]].laugh.
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** MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: His messages get very deranged at certain points throughout the game, especially near the end.
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* MysteriousPast: What relationship he had with Empty Fuck in the past isn't clear, but what's obvious is that there is a relationship. He's introduced by mockingly asking if he's woken up Empty from his depression nap and calling him a "fucked up detached loser", while also giving him a needed job offer that he thinks Empty can enjoy: VitriolicBestBuds, or just [[JerkAss vitriolic]]?
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: He unexpectedly turns on you without warning and sends a group of Cruelty Squad members to kill you in one mission. In the next mission he apologizes, stating that it was due to an error.]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: He does seem to have some kind of mental illness, likely some form of depression, since in the opening cutscene The Handler asks if he's "waken [Empty Fuck] up from [his] depression nap", calls him a "fucked up detached loser", and tells Empty Fuck that he'll have to use a conditioning app 15 minutes a day in order to prevent any "freakouts". Aside from that, he barely even flinches to anything, even if it's casually watching a mass shooting from afar, killing random people, or [[spoiler:reducing the whole universe to nothing to stabilize Life and Death]].
