History Characters / EndersGame

* TheAtoner: By conclusion of the original novel.

Another one of Ender's early friends, who becomes one of the members of Ender's Dragon Army, and one of his lieutenants at Command School.

* [[Spoiler: SealedBadassInACan]]

->'''Played By''': Asa Butterfield

->'''Played By''': Harrison Ford

->'''Played By''': Ben Kingsley

* [[spoiler:BigGood:He eventually becomes Hegemon of the world, and a surprisingly compassionate and wise one.]]

[[folder:Shen]]

[[folder: Colonel Hyrum Graff]]

->'''Played By''': Harrison Ford

The head of Battle School and the person in charge of finding someone to stop the Buggers. Graff is responsible for Ender's upbringing in Battle School, for good or ill.

[[folder: Major Anderson]]

->'''Played By''': Viola Davis

Colonel Graff's assistant. They both want Ender to defeat the Buggers, but clash over the best way to train him.

[[folder: Mazer Rackham]]

->'''Played By''': Ben Kingsley

The hero of the Second Invasion, who defeated the Buggers during their assault near Saturn. However, much of the reason for his victory is kept secret from the public eye.

* CassandraTruth: None of the xenobiologists believed him when he told them [[spoiler:the Formics have a queen, and were defeated because he killed her. Why? Because they didn't find a queen. Naturally, because she got blown to pieces.]]
* PostHumousCharacter: His victory was 70 years before the events of ''Ender's Game'', but he's become as legendary as GeorgeWashington. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's ''not'' dead, though, but went on a relativistic flight to train the next great admiral of the International Fleet.]]

[[folder:Achilles De Flandres]]
A low-ranking bully on the streets of Rotterdam, who was forcibly coerced by Poke and her gang to become their thug. He managed to get the gang to follow him instead, and with Bean's advice turned the social structure of Rotterdam's bully hierarchy in its head. This reached the attention of the IF and Achilles became a potential Battle School candidate. Despite Sister Carlotta's best attempts to stop them, Achilles was enlisted and so became desirable to the Russians after the war. He used their resources they provided him to plan his conquests of larger and larger nations, eventually to lead the best one that would control the world.

* AGodAmI: He believes the universe works to his will, and will alter its course to suit his desires.
* BatmanGambit: Once his neurosis to never be seen helpless is known by the heroes, it's often exploited to keep him from killing them. At one point, Petra beats him in a fight but then pretends she thinks he purposely lost. Suriyawong rescues Achilles by throwing him a knife to cut his bonds, but insists that he only gave him the knife so Achilles could free himself.
* EvilCripple: He had a gimp leg during his years on the streets but it was corrected via surgery before he went to Battle School. The "evil" part wasn't corrected, though.
* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: Achilles never stops seeking revenge, but he is ''very'' patient about it. He will only act if he's certain he can get away with it.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: He has a pathological need to kill anyone who has ever seen him helpless -- including but not limited to a girl who lifted him from low-ranking thug to leader of a prosperous gang, a nun who got him off the streets entirely and enrolled in a good school, and a doctor who dared use anesthesia to help fix his bad leg.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: One tactic of his to pass off his murders.

[[folder:Poke]]

[[folder:Sister Carlotta]]

[[folder:Suriyawong]]

* MakeItLookLikeAccident: One tactic of his to pass off his murders.

* SmurfetteBreakout: Since Virlomi was one of the few girls at Battle School and one of the best, she expected she'd be famed there after she left. She's disappointed to see none of the later students have heard of her.

* ImAmTheNoun: She starts referring to herself as "India" and her people do so as well.

But surely the love and fame that will come from saving humanity will make his ordeal worth it, right? Well... [[spoiler:it turns out Ender was being bred not merely to defend humanity, but to ''commit xenocide'' on its attackers. Ender was "the chosen one" solely to be a scapegoat so Graff and Rackham could keep their hands clean.]]

One of the first friends Ender makes at Battle School. They band together due to mutual bullying from Bernard.

* BlessedWithSuch: Bean is so intelligent because [[spoiler:he has a condition that causes his brain to never stop growing. His body has to keep growing to keep up with it, so eventually he will die of giantism before he is 20, yet be the smartest human ever to live.]]

* LadyLooksLikeADude: She's naked like many of the other soldiers present when Ender first meets her and he doesn't even notice she's a girl ''until she tells him''. Apparently one of her teachers even refused to believe Petra was a girl and had a DNA test done on her just to be sure.

* LadyLooksLikeADude: She's naked like many of the other soldiers when Ender first meets her and he doesn't even notice she's a girl ''until she tells him''. Apparently one of her teachers even refused to believe Petra was a girl and had a DNA test done on her just to be sure.

This paranoia continues to save him even after he graduates. Several times he exits a building while dragging his incredulous friends along because he's certain he's too vulnerable there... and the building is bombed each times

Bean is the star of the "Ender's Shadow" quintet of novels.

The smallest soldier in Dragon Army. He grew up on the streets of Rotterdam, Germany, until aid from the nun Sister Carlotta helped him get into Battle School. Bean is the star of the "Ender's Shadow" quintet of novels.

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* BeingTheChosenOneSucks: Hoo boy. Not only is all the pressure to succeed terrible, but he quickly realizes the teachers are determined to strip him down as finely as possible to extract every bit of genius from him. This includes things like isolating him, making him a target of bullying, separating him from any good friends, stacking the battles against him, and doing nothing about jealous rivals who are after his blood. And he has to deal with this all when he's ''six''.
* BewareTheNiceOne: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Ender honestly is one of the nicest people there is, but when a bully pushes him to far he will beat down his attacker to a pulp ''and then some'' just to make sure the bully never comes back. It horrifies Ender himself just how brutal he'll become, when he doesn't want to hurt anybody.

* TheSmurfettePrincipal: She's the only girl in Salamander Army, though not the only girl in the Battle School.

One of the first friends Ender makes at Battle School, who becomes one of the members of Ender's Dragon Army, and one of his lieutenants at Command School.

The Third Child. Ender is the end result of a government program designed to create the perfect commander to win the war for the human race against the Formics. Ender is shipped to Battle School where his [[CombatPragmatist ruthless pragmatism]] and ability to [[TakeAThirdOption think outside the box]] sends Ender up the ranks at an unprecedented rate and eventually brings him into the Bugger War. However the horrors of war, the pressure from everyone to be the

best, and the isolation that comes from that takes it's tole on his mental state. Eventually the it's too much and upon his graduation Ender takes a space ship to parts unknown.

By the events ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'', thousands of years later, Ender's work in the Bugger War has become the stuff of infamy, and Ender himself is living under an alias, TimeDilation keeping him young. Ender has become a Speaker for the Dead, a person hired to tell the lfie story of someone who is deceased in their voice as much as possible. Ender is hired to speak for someone on the planet Lusitania, home to the only other known alien species since the

Buggers, the Pequeninos. Once there, Ender is brought into a murder mystery involving the Pequeninos, and eventually works towards preserving the aliens race, which is coverd in ''Literature/{{Xenocide}}'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheMind''.

Ender, Valentine, and Peter's father.

Ender, Valentine, and Peter's mother.

The smallest soldier in Dragon Army. He grew up on the streets of Rotterdam, Germany, until aid from the nun Sister Carlotta helped him get into Battle School.

Bean is the star of the "Ender's Shadow" quartet of novels.

[[folder: Colonel Graff]]

The first friend Ender makes at Battle School, who becomes one of the members of Ender's Dragon Army, and one his lieutenants at Command School.

[[folder: Bean (Julian Delphiki II)]]

Another friend Ender makes at Battle School, Bean is another child prodigy who meets Ender when they are both on Bonzo's team.

Bean is the star of the "Ender's Shadow" quartet of novels.

->'''Played By''': Hailee Steinfeld

Another friend of Ender's; their friendship upsets Bonzo.

Major Anderson's assistant.

The hero of the last Bugger War, who performed a HeroicSacrifice to stop the Formic fleet. [[spoiler: Rackham actually survived, and pretends to be Ender's enemy and mentor in Command School.]]