History Characters / CyberpunkEdgerunnersCorposCriminalsAndFixers

--> '''Adam Smasher:''' You... Who are you... to challenge ''[[TheDreaded me]]''?! You can't even stand without your antigrav crutches. [[{{Pride}} You think you're special 'cause you're scrappy]]? Don't make me laugh!

-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/RachelRobinson (Kate, English), Bill Butts (Douglas, English), Creator/EricaEdwards (Kate, Latin American Spanish), Creator/JuanCarlosTinoco (Douglas, Latin American Spanish)

* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:Catches one of Tanaka Sr.'s flechettes straight to the throat, dying in minutes from a combination of bleeding out and choking on blood.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He appears in only one episode, yet arguably sets the second half of the series in motion by using his EMP on Maine. [[spoiler: The latter's cyberpsychosis noticeably worsens after this encounter, causing him to botch a crucial hacking operation and get himself killed. This would create a chain of events that forces Faraday, the crew's fixer, to betray them in a bid to save his own career after their repeated failures. Things might have turned out very differently for the crew indeed if Kiwi had gotten her hands on the data before getting rudely interrupted by Maine, and Faraday'd remained working for Militech instead of Arasaka.]]

* TheScapegoat: Kate winds up pinning Douglas to be this for the Cyberskeleton affair, as ''someone'' had to take the fall for enlisting Faraday.

* EvilCounterpart: Just like David, Adam was expelled from a prestigious institution (The US military [[AllThereInTheManual according to the original tabletop’s lore]]) for misbehaviour, went on to achieve a lucrative criminal career thanks to his abnormal tolerance for cybernetics before biting off more then he could chew, and on death’s door received a chance of survival from an Arasaka agent if they agreed to throw away their humanity and become fully mechanical: Adam by going "[[FullConversionCyborg full-Borg]]", David through the [[BrainUploading Soulkiller]]. While [[AxCrazy Smasher]] jumped at the chance for freedom as a monster and never once looked back, David descent into cyberpsychosis was fuelled by the desire to keep the woman he loved safe; and once that was accomplished, [[DefiantToTheEnd accepted death gladly rather then serve the corporation responsible for her suffering]]. Also, while David's tolerance for cybernetics comes from his mental and emotional stability, Smasher's tolerance comes from being so naturally unstable that he is capable of ignoring any mental damage that cyberpsychosis can inflict on him.

* ItsPersonal: Sort of. He couldn't care less about David as an individual during their encounter, but as explained by the Arasaka suits, [[MiniMecha the Cyberskeleton]] was meant as an additional upgrade for Adam Smasher's already [[FullConversionCyborg chromed out]] body, but as David takes it on a joyride far longer than Arasaka intended, they let Adam Smasher off the leash against it because he'd be extremely frustrated over his "new toy" being taken from him and bring him down. [[CurbStompBattle They were right]].

** He slides into the final battle with just enough time to protect a single Arasaka employee from David's bullets and actually bothers to do so. Though could’ve been pragmatic, as the employee he saved was meant to be the fall guy.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Has an absolutely vicious one towards David as he begins pummels him to death during his HeroicSacrifice after pushing him to his RageBreakingPoint.

* {{Reconstruction}}: He's the FinalBoss of ''2077'', but prior to [[BalancedBuff update 2.1]] he was surprisingly underpowered against a properly-specced [[PlayerCharacter V]], who is effectively on their last legs thanks to the Relic killing them internally. Here, he's such an absurdly lethal force of nature that he serves as a OneManArmy and shrugs off a fully kitted-out David inside a [[MiniMecha cyberskeleton]], retaining a much more lore-accurate depiction of his character in that there was one fundamental rule with him in the tabletop game: [[HopelessBossFight you didn't fight Adam Smasher unless you wanted to die.]]

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the game, his speech is [[SirSwearsAlot generally crude and vulgar]], [[EvilIsHammy he's more prone to rage]], and he's '''unapologetically''' [[CountryMatters misogynistic]]. He's much more composed in the series and swears much less with the no indication of misogynistic tendencies.

* {{Reconstruction}}: In the game, he was the FinalBoss, but was surprisingly underpowered against a properly-specced [[PlayerCharacter V]], who is effectively on their last legs thanks to the Relic killing them internally. Here, he's such an absurdly lethal force of nature that he serves as a OneManArmy and straight-up shrugs off a fully kitted-out David inside a [[MiniMecha cyberskeleton]], retaining a much more lore-accurate depiction of his character in that there was one fundamental rule with him in the tabletop game: [[HopelessBossFight you didn't fight Adam Smasher unless you wanted to die.]]

* SuperPersistentPredator: The moment he has David in his sights, Adam Smasher is absolutely relentless in pursuing him, even far outside of the Arasaka headquarters and down into Night City, and is completely uncaring of [[BloodKnight the collateral damage or lives lost]] that gets between him and David.

** He's definitely buffed compared to his game counterpart, however, where in the game a properly specced V can kill him in minutes, while here he's truly a LightningBruiser that easily shrugs off hits far more severe than the bullets and grenades that a player can easily kill him with and has SuperSpeed thanks to a Sandevistan.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese), Creator/GiancarloEsposito (English), Creator/BrunoChoel (European French)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshitoYasuhara (Japanese), Creator/KirkThornton (English), Creator/BorisRehlinger (French)

->'''Voiced by:''' Tetsuo Komura (Japanese), Creator/PaulNakauchi (English)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakanoriHoshino (Japanese)

-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/RachelRobinson (English), Bill Butts (English)

-> '''Voiced by:''' Yukihiro Misono (Japanese), Creator/AlecNewman (English)

** Downplayed in relation to his canon characteristics. While his physical feats are 100% in line with his actual power scale, he is able to outright NoSell hacks from Lucy. Smasher should have had a far more difficult time ignoring them, given how vulnerable he is to being hacked compared to most (both in the game and on the tabletop), especially since it's the fastest ''and'' easiest way for him to be taken down in a straight fight.[[note]]In fact, in the tabletop, hacking him is practically the ''only'' way to stand even a slim chance against him, given that his remaining stats are otherwise through the roof.[[/note]] Of course, it ''has'' been 50 something years since his statline in 2020...

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: A ''very'' minor example. Compared to the game, his portrayal in ''Edgerunners'' lacks the game version's [[HeManWomanHater notorious misogyny]] and has a less vulgar mouth, especially when it comes to his [[CountryMatters treatment]] of women. This version of Smasher is far more emotionally detached and is ''[[FauxAffablyEvil almost]]'' polite to David after defeating him. The game's version basically had the personality of an overgrown schoolyard bully who took every challenge to his power as a [[WhoDares personal insult]], where in his sole appearance in the anime he has all the emotional involvement of a guy [[ButForMeItWasTuesday playing games on his phone at the bus stop while waiting for his ride to arrive.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Just like David, Adam was expelled from a prestigious institution (The US military [[AllThereInTheManual according to the original tabletop’s lore]]) for misbehaviour, went on to achieve a lucrative criminal career thanks to his abnormal tolerance for cybernetics before biting off more then he could chew, and on death’s door received a chance of survival from an Arasaka agent if they agreed to throw away their humanity and become fully mechanical: Adam by going "[[FullConversionCyborg full-Borg]]", David through the [[BrainUploading Soulkiller]]. While [[AxCrazy Smasher]] jumped at the chance for freedom as a monster and never once looked back, David descent into cyberpsychosis was fuelled by the desire to keep the woman he loved safe; and once that was accomplished, [[DefiantToTheEnd accepted death gladly rather then serve the corporation responsible for her suffering]]. Also, while David's tolerance for cybernetics comes from his mental and emotional stability, Smasher's tolerance comes from being so naturally unstable that he is capable of ignoring any mental damage that cyberpschosis can inflict on him.

* HateSink: Smasher here is just as cruel and bloodthirsty as he is in the game. The fact he ruins David's reunion with Lucy before [[JustForPun smashing Rebecca on the floor]] and killing David all serve to reinforce his willingness to embrace his own brutality and irredeemable qualities.

* GunboatDiplomacy: Since Faraday works for Arasaka's rival, Millitech, they engage in some corporate warfare by putting out a hit on Faraday to threaten the fixer into turning traitor and work for Arasaka instead.

* AllThereInTheScript: They're never addressed by name, but the credits reveal their names as Kate and Douglas.

* SecretPolice: A corporate variant for Arasaka.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Their appearances are scant, but their actions in the latter half of the series are instrumental. They stage an assassination attempt on Faraday, which leads him to turn to Arasaka when Militech bails on him. Their enabling of Faraday is what leads to his capture of Lucy, as well as the ambush that forces David to don the Cyberskeleton. When the situation spirals out of their control, they let Adam Smasher off the leash, resulting in [[spoiler:Rebecca and David's]] deaths. It's safe to say much of the worse events in the latter half of the series wouldn't have happened without their influence.

* RasputanianDeath: [[spoiler:He's tortured via JackBauerInterrogationTechnique by Maine's crew, gets his brain fried by Lucy, then resuscitated by Maine when Trauma Team shows up to save him, only for his unconscious body to be used as a HumanShield, ultimately dying when Maine rips his head off and throws it at Tanaka's would be rescuers.]]

* BadSamaritan: Offers to forgive David for assaulting his son and even pressures the academy to re-enroll him ''with a scholarship''. Of course, all of this goodwill is [[spoiler:bait to lure in David and abduct him for the Cyber-Skeleton program, after he sees his extreme tolerance for cyberware]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: It's practically a job requirement for being an executive at a MegaCorp like Arasaka. [[spoiler:After finding out David has an extremely high tolerance for cyberware, Tanaka Sr. tries to lure him back to Arasaka Academy just so he can turn him into a human lab rat to test out his cyberskeleton project.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: He is the reason the crew is working for Faraday to begin with and as [[spoiler:director of the Cyber-Skeleton program he has ties to nearly every tragedy David suffers after installing the Sandevistan]].

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* KarmaHoudini: Kate and Douglas's scheming results in the deaths of a lot of people, including [[spoiler:Rebecca and [[TheHeroDies David]]]], but when their plan blows up in their faces, not only does Kate survive, but she uses Douglas as a scapegoat.

* EvilCounterpart: Just like David, Adam was expelled from a prestigious institution (The US military [[AllThereInTheManual according to the original tabletop’s lore]]) for misbehaviour, went on to achieve a lucrative criminal career thanks to his abnormal tolerance for cybernetics before biting off more then he could chew, and on death’s door received a chance of survival from an Arasaka agent if they agreed to throw away their humanity and become fully mechanical: Adam by going “[[FullConversionCyborg full-Borg]]”, David through the [[BrainUploading Soulkiller]]. While [[AxCrazy Smasher]] jumped at the chance for freedom as a monster and never once looked back, David descent into cyberpsychosis was fuelled by the desire to keep the woman he loved safe; and once that was accomplished, [[DefiantToTheEnd accepted death gladly rather then serve the corporation responsible for her suffering]]. Also, while David's tolerance for cybernetics comes from his mental and emotional stability, Smasher's tolerance comes from being so naturally unstable that he is capable of ignoring any mental damage that cyberpschosis can inflict on him.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Their appearances are scant, but their actions in the latter half of the series are instrumental. They stage an assassination attempt on Faraday, which leads him to turn to Arasaka when Militech bails on him. Their enabling of Faraday is what leads to his capture of Lucy, as well as the ambush that forces David to don the Cyberskeleton. When the situation spirals out of their control, they let Adam Smasher off the leash, resulting in Rebecca and David's deaths. It's safe to say much of the worse events in the latter half of the series wouldn't have happened without their influence.

[[folder:Maxim Kuznetsov]]
!!Maxim Kuznetsov
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakanoriHoshino (Japanese)
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An Arasaka driver and bodyguard for Tanaka, and the victim of David's first job with Maine's crew.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: While angrily shouting at David to get out of his car, Maxim can be heard threatening that he'll hurt David's friends and family too.
* CoolCar: He drives a black Villefort Alvarado [=V4F=] 570 Delegate, a car that's designed to show off its owner's luxury and wealth.
* DrowningMySorrows: After his bet on The Butcher goes sideways thanks to Dorio providing her opponent with the tools for a fatal takedown, Maxim goes to his favorite bar to get shit-faced. This in turn leaves him too distracted to notice his data shard getting pick-pocketed by the crew so they can steal the navigation data.
* DumbMuscle: Maxim's built like a brickhouse, but he easily falls for Maine's simple yet effective ploy to klep his navigation data that he only catches onto [[SpannerInTheWorks thanks to his boss's unexpected call]]. Then there's him trying to shoot out the window of his own car with a pistol to try and get at David, a corpo car he should be aware is intentionally armored to be able to handle such firearms.
* HuskyRusskie: Maxim's a huge man with a Slavic name. The English dub even gives him a faint Russian accent.
* OhCrap: He has a minor one when he finally notices his shard has been klepped and quickly runs out to his car, but he gets a bigger one when David starts the car, crashes it a bit, and then takes off, all while Maxim can only scream at him to stop and fire away fruitlessly.

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[[folder:Tanaka Sr.]]
!!Tanaka Sr.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Tetsuo Komura (Japanese), Creator/PaulNakauchi (English)

The father of David's bully and a high-ranking executive at Arasaka with some information Faraday wants for himself.
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-> Voiced by: Creator/RachelRobinson (English), Bill Butts (English)

-> Voiced by: Yukihiro Misono (Japanese), Creator/AlecNewman (English)

-->'''Smasher''': You're packing some pretty heavy artillery for your size, boy. I'm ''surprised'' you could string ''two words'' together.\\
'''David''': Likewise, choom. Heard you went no-ganic full-borg, so I gotta ask: any ''brain'' left in that ''chrome dome'' of yours?\\
'''Smasher''': You could say [[ArcWords I'm...]]''[[ArcWords special.]]''\\
'''David''': Well, so the fuck am I!\\
'''Smasher''': ''That a'' '''''joke?'''''

-->'''David:''' Heard you went no-ganic full-borg, so I gotta ask. Any brain left in that chrome dome of yours?\\
'''Smasher:''' You could say [[IronicEcho I'm special]].\\
'''David:''' Well, so the fuck am I!\\
'''Smasher:''' That a joke?

->'''Voiced by:''' Takanori Hoshino (Japanese)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese), Creator/GiancarloEsposito (English)

-> Voiced by: Rachel Robinson(English), Bill Butts(English)

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Downplayed as he's not winning any beauty awards anytime soon but the anime's stylization causes his face to lose some of the more grotesque features; His game depiction's face can be summed up as rotting human flesh stretched over half a robotic head. Here, his remaining human skin has merely gone pale with no signs of decay and has enough stylization that it could pass off for a mask similar in appearance to the ones worn by the huge Arasaka bodyguards David was pickpocketing on the train.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: In [[OffModel a weird way]], as despite his cameo appearance prior, he is spot-on design-wise to his game appearance. Adam Smasher's appearance in the final episode, while superficially similar, has a lot of details that are different enough to be noticeable. Namely: his ElectronicEyes are standard GlowingMechanicalEyes instead of the weird multi-lensed camera ones, his jaw doesn't move when he speaks, and he's [[YourSizeMayVary far more top-heavy at times]] than his freakishly huge body already was. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as WordOfGod states that Adam's status as a full-borg allows him to pilot different bodies, so it's possible that he's literally in a different body than when we later see him in ''2077''.

* BigBadWannabe: He has designs on being a hotshot corpo and [[spoiler:starts playing both sides of the field with Militech and Arasaka, in hopes of becoming more than a fixer. However, while his machinations causing David and Lucy no small amount of grief, the series reveals he's far from the biggest threat in Night City, as Kate and Douglas have more authority and resources than him, and Adam Smasher is ultimately the one to have a climactic showdown with David, with Faraday himself suffering a rather unceremonious death. By ''accident'', may we add.]]

* BigBad: While Faraday is hardly the largest threat in Night City, it's his actions that put Maine's crew in harm's way beyond the normal risks of being an edgerunner, and his actions relating to the cyber skeleton lead directly to [[spoiler:David's death]].
* BigBadWannabe: He has designs on being a hotshot corpo and [[spoiler:starts playing both sides of the field with Militech and Arasaka in hopes of becoming more than a fixer. Ultimately, his plan falls completely flat and he dies a rather ignominious death.]]