History Characters / Doom2016TheDoomSlayer

* PerpetualMotionMonster: From the view of the demons at least - according to the Slayer's Testament, he has the ability to absorb the strength of the demons he slays, meaning he does not need to sleep, eat, or drink as long as he keeps on killing. His rampage has lasted ''ceaselessly'' throughout the eons, and it was only momentarily paused by collapsing a temple upon him and making him a SealedBadassInACan - once he escaped that, he got right back to killing demons without even a piss break. [[spoiler:As ''the Ancient Gods'' DLCs reveal, [[AntiAntiChrist there turns out to be a damn good reason for that]][[note]]As the Slayer is created from part of Davoth's own power, either through his conception or enhancement through [[EmpoweredBadassNormal the Divinity Machine]], the Slayer essentially has a part of the very essence of both the Doom's franchise equivalent of Satan ''and'' God simultaneously, which allows him clearly to absorb the power from demons he kills (and presumably Hell itself whenever he's there for long enough) to keep himself going indefinitely—[[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration which also conveniently justifies the Glory Kill mechanic as well]].[[/note]].]]

* SuperSpeed: ''Very'' {{downplayed|trope}} compared to some of the other speedsters in fiction, but between his ability to DoubleJump, FlashStep / VideogameDashing, his [[PerpetualMotionMonster enduring stamina]], it's hard to argue that his mobility isn't beyond human. Also, despite being built like a refrigerator his base run speed is still [[https://streamable.com/brpxq 12 m/s or 27 miles per hour]]. This is impossible for a real human to reach for any sustained length (Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash world record is 9.6 seconds or 10.4 m/s, while his 800-meter run time is 125 seconds or 6.4 m/s), and the Doom Slayer can do it easily and infinitely. The fact that he can both accelerate to that speed near-instantly and run ''sideways and backwards'' at nearly the same speed is also solidly superhuman (far more than the run speed itself in fact), and a [[RoadRunnerPC big part of why he's so deadly in-game.]] On top of that, this is his speed while wearing heavy armor and carrying lots of guns. Even a standard soldier's load would render the fittest real-world humans incapable of little more sustained speed than a jog, much less the PoweredArmor and [[HyperspaceArsenel piles of BFGs]] he carries.

* SuperSpeed: ''Very'' {{downplayed|trope}} compared to some of the other speedsters in fiction, but between his ability to DoubleJump, FlashStep / VideogameDashing, his [[PerpetualMotionMonster enduring stamina]], it's hard to argue that his mobility isn't beyond human. Also, despite being built like a refrigerator his base run speed is still [[https://streamable.com/brpxq 12 m/s or 27 miles per hour]]. This is impossible for a real human to reach for any sustained length (the current 100-meter dash world record is 9.6 seconds), and the Doom Slayer can do it easily. The fact that he can both accelerate to that speed near-instantly and run ''sideways and backwards'' at nearly the same speed is also solidly superhuman (far more than the run speed itself in fact), and a [[RoadRunnerPC big part of why he's so deadly in-game.]] On top of that, this is his speed while wearing heavy armor and carrying lots of guns, at which point even the fittest real-world humans would be lucky to manage a sustained jog.

* PerpetualMotionMonster: From the view of the demons at least - according to the Slayer's Testament, he has the ability to absorb the strength of the demons he slays, meaning he does not need to sleep, eat, or drink as long as he keeps on killing. His rampage has lasted ''ceaselessly'' throughout the eons, and it was only momentarily paused by collapsing a temple upon him and making him a SealedBadassInACan - once he escaped that, he got right back to killing demons without even a piss break.

* CarryABigStick: In ''The Ancient Gods: Part Two'', he gets a Sentinel Hammer from Valen, replacing the Crucible. He uses it by leaping high and smashing the ground, dazing nearby enemies. It ends up having a lot more utility than the Crucible, as it stuns enemies in a wide area, makes demons' staggered state last even longer, makes frozen/burning targets drop more armor and health, and in general, has much more versatility compared to the Crucible's singular one hit kill function.

* DropTheHammer: In ''The Ancient Gods: Part Two'', he gets a Sentinel Hammer from Valen, replacing the Crucible. He uses it by leaping high and smashing the ground, dazing nearby enemies. It ends up having a lot more utility than the Crucible, as it stuns enemies in a wide area, makes demons' staggered state last even longer, makes frozen/burning targets drop more armor and health, and in general, has much more versatility compared to the Crucible's singular one hit kill function.

* SuperSpeed: ''Very'' {{downplayed|trope}} compared to some of the other speedsters in fiction, but between his ability to DoubleJump, FlashStep / VideogameDashing, his [[PerpetualMotionMonster enduring stamina]], it's hard to argue that his mobility isn't beyond human.

** This trope is taken to its' logical extreme near the climax of ''Eternal''. The problem? [[spoiler:He needs to get to a city buried deep under Mars' surface, and there's no way to get there without digging through all that rock.]] Solution? [[spoiler:'''[[WaveMotionGun Hijack the BFG 10,000]]''' and literally blow a hole directly to it.]]

** Not that he wasn't already awesome from the start, mind you, but the collected lore in ''Eternal'' states that [[spoiler:his Night Sentinel training and Seraphim enhancements turned him from the "brutal, but crude" Doomguy to the Great Slayer, the greatest Sentinel to ever live]].

** The intro of the DOOM (2016) is one for the Slayer: He wakes up naked and chained to a slab after Hell's forces sealed him in a coffin and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill dropped an entire temple on top of him]] just to be safe. The ''instant'' he's awake and aware, he rips out the chains, smashes a zombie's head to paste with his bare hands, and blasts two others to pieces with a pistol. He then finds his armor and immediately searches for the source of the demonic infection on Mars. When interrupted by Samuel Hayden's [[TeethClenchedTeamwork offering of help]], he spitefully throws the monitor against the wall and leaves. After which he goes on to clear another room full of demons. And the moment that [[MrExposition Samuel Hayden]] tries to justify what's happened to the base by saying that his actions were for [[WellIntentionedExtremist "the betterment of all mankind"]], the Doom Slayer looks down on a human corpse, gets enraged by it and [[ShutUpHannibal destroys the monitor]] Hayden's speaking on. This establishes the Slayer as a ruthless Badass NoNonsenseNemesis (to the Demons) who still retains some of his humanity.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: You never get a good idea of what his face looks like. However, you can kind of see his facial features through the helmet's visor, and he does have a face texture, which some [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/5l8p1o/doom_guys_face_doom_2016/ fans were able to rip]]. In-engine cutscenes that leave the Doom Slayer's perspective show that his visor is more transparent, with his eyes becoming more prominent. In ''DOOM Eternal'', his face is far more visible, most notably when it's reflected in his visor after obtaining a power-up. In one cutscene, he is also shown without his helmet, at least from behind. [[spoiler:{{Averted}} come ''Eternal'', both because we see his face at several points, and because [[CanonCharacterAllAlong we've known what]] [[{{VideoGame/Doom}} it looked like since 1993]], and even further averted in ''The Ancient Gods'', where he removes his helmet before killing Davoth]].

** With confirmation from ''DOOM: Eternal'' that he's [[spoiler: related to Commander Keen]] and that he's [[spoiler: the Doomguy from the original series,]] it's safe to assume that his name is either [[spoiler: William Joseph "BJ" Blazkowicz III or Stan Blazkowicz]].

* JerkassToOne: Right off the bat in ''DOOM (2016)'', he seems to develop an instant and almost unreasonable hatred for Samuel Hayden the second he hears that Hayden is the head of the facility, particularly when he hears that Hayden believes the horrific loss of life caused by dealing with Hell was "worth the risk" for its rewards. Almost every time he has to deal with Hayden, the Slayer will either violently cut off his transmissions, or deliberately smash the expensive stuff he's explicitly told to keep intact as if to rub it into Hayden's face. On the other hand, once he figures out just what the UAC is up to, it makes total sense that he'd want to shut their operation down, [[spoiler:since he [[SoulPoweredEngine already knows exactly what Argent Energy is and how it's made]], and Hayden makes it very clear that shutting it down is not in the cards for him]]. ''Eternal'' shows that he's still more than a little contemptuous of Hayden; when recovering the doctor's shattered chassis, rather than carefully detaching it as the ARC scientist advises him to, the Slayer just nonchalantly yanks him out of his life support systems instead, which makes his entire chassis fall and slam resoundingly against the floor. As if that's not enough, as soon as the Marauder rocks up to the scene, the Slayer just casually flings what's left of Hayden into a portal without even looking.

* KingInTheMountain: At the end of ''The Ancient Gods - Part Two'', [[spoiler: The Slayer, after his PostVictoryCollapse against the Dark Lord, is placed in a sarcophagus not unlike the one he was found in at the start of ''DOOM'' - between the fact that he is conscious, his heartbeats, and the final line of the story {{Bookend|s}}ing to the intro to ''DOOM'', it's ''very'' heavily implied that by the time he's awoken once more, he'll be back to OneManArmy status.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: The empowering he underwent by the Seraphim as described in ''DOOM''? [[spoiler:That was actually one Maykr [[DefectorFromDecadence going against the Khan's wishes]] to create a reserve backup plan in case things went sour. The Khan Maykr was displeased with this and exiled the Seraphim, but kept the Slayer around until he too [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness was in the way of her plans with Hell.]] What she didn't count on was his absolute refusal to die, which resulted in the long-term destruction of her plans from the inside out.]]

* ThePowerOfHate: With a bit of GameplayAndStoryIntegration, the extra lives system in ''Eternal'' are {{Justified}} by his hatred for Hell being so great that, even if killed, he wills himself to live again out of sheer psychopathic hatred for the demons. Likewise, the health pickups are {{Justified}} by his willpower being restored with every demon he kills.

* NoOntologicalInertia: Downplayed. In ''Ancient Gods'' [[spoiler:after taking out Davoth, Doomguy immediately passes out from the constant, non-stop battles he's been through over the [=DLC=]s without part of Davoth's power to keep him going.]]

* KillTheGod: ''The Ancient Gods - Part Two'' reveals [[spoiler:Davoth is the original creator deity, meaning the Doom Slayer's quest to kill him is a quest of deicide. Naturally, he succeeds.]]